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Turkey is a rural powerhouse, and the agricultural industry has significant importance in the country, both socially and economically. In 2010, the industry employed more than a quarter of the Turkish workforce, and contributed over 10% of GDP. Roughly half the country's total land area, around 39 million hectares, is devoted to agriculture. By way of comparison, this is equivalent to 22% of the total land area devoted to agriculture in the entire EU. Agriculture is predominantly a small-scale industry in Turkey, which is why it contributes so heavily to employment. Most of Turkey's 3 million agricultural holdings are small farms that employ family labor. The average farm size is just 6 hectares, compared to the EU average of 13 hectares. Despite the predominance of small-scale farming, Turkey has the largest agricultural economy in Europe, and the seventh largest in the world, up from fourth in Europe and 11th in the world in 2002.
According to statistics, 2011 was a good year for the agricultural sector in Turkey. Production grew by 5.3%, continuing a strong growth trend that has lasted for nearly a decade, in what the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock has called the most stable period of sustained growth in the past half century. From 2002 to 2011, Turkey's agricultural GDP grew by 165% from $23.7 billion to $62.7 billion. Agricultural prices also saw a 13.3% increase in 2011, which has been a boon for farmers. As prices and production have risen, employment in the agricultural sector has also grown, rising by 25% between 2007 and 2011 in nominal terms. The growth of the agricultural sector has also attracted a significant increase in foreigninvestment. Over 2005-2010, FDI in agriculture grew from $7 million to $78 million.
Turkey's agricultural strength lies in its massive fruit and nut production industries. Turkey is the world's leading producer of hazelnuts, apricots, figs, and raisins. It is also a huge producer of citrus fruits, almonds, pistachios, cherries, peaches, apples, and dates. In 2011, the country produced 17.2 million tons of fruit, worth $15.2 billion, an increase of 3.5% from 2010. More than half of production was concentrated in the country's top fruit and nut products: apricots, hazelnuts, grapes, apples, and citrus fruits, which brought in $8.7 billion in 2011, 57% of total fruit and nut revenues. Since 2006, the value of fruit and nut production has grown by 16.5% from $13.05 billion to $15.2 billion.
Turkey also boasts a large vegetable and melon production segment, which expanded by 5.8% in 2011, producing 27.5 million tons of vegetables, worth $14 billion. Unlike fruits and nuts, Turkey's vegetable production is primarily for domestic consumption. Tomatoes are the country's top vegetable product, comprising nearly 40% of total vegetable production, and in 2011, Turkey's tomato production increased by 9.5% to 11 million tons, worth $5.4 billion. Cucumbers, onions, peppers, and melons also ranked at the top of vegetable production, together accounting for an additional $5.8 billion, or 41% of production.
Turkey also has a considerable cereal and grain production segment, although it still lags behind the rest of Europe in terms of yield and productivity. Cereal production, which consists mainly of wheat (62%), barley (21%), and corn (13%), is highly subsidized in Turkey, and is concentrated primarily on small-scale farms. As a result, the average wheat yield is 1.95 tons per hectare, compared to the EU average of 5.66 tons per hectare. Still, cereal production is increasing. Turkey produced 35.2 million tons of cereal crops in 2011, up 7.4% from the previous year. Wheat production also saw an increase of 10.8%, up to 21.8 million tons.
Turkey has a small but growing fisheries and aquaculture sector, although at present it is dominated by a few main products. Fisheries and aquaculture represent under 3% of the agriculture sector as a whole; however, the country is making significant strides in promoting the growth of the aquaculture segment. Between 2001 and 2011, the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock invested over $400 million in promoting the development of aquaculture. As a result, aquaculture production has more than tripled over the past decade from 61,000 tons in 2002 to 185,000 tons in 2010. Turkey now has the fifth-largest aquaculture industry in Europe and the third-fastest growing in the world. Turkey's main aquaculture products are trout, sea bream, and sea bass. The trout segment comprises almost 50% of aquaculture production, and Turkey is the number one trout producer in Europe. The country has 720 inland aquaculture producers, with a total capacity of 197,000 tons, and 368 saltwater aquaculture producers with a total capacity of 174,521 tons. Turkey's inland and marine capture segment has not been growing as rapidly as aquaculture; however, it showed almost 5% growth in 2010. The marine capture segment focuses on small oily fish, mainly anchovies, sprat, and pilchards. Turkey's fisheries exports have shown strong growth, rising nearly 264% over the past decade to $448 million in 2011. About 80% of exports go to the EU, where Turkey supplies more than 25% of all sea bass and sea bream.
Compared to the rest of Europe, Turkey has relatively low consumption rates for livestock products. Turkey's per capita meat consumption is one-fifth of the EU average, cow milk consumption is half of the EU average, and egg consumption is three-quarters of the EU average. The one exception is sheep products, which Turkey consumes at rates above those found in the EU. Despite overall low consumption, livestock and poultry products in Turkey—including meat, milk, cheese, wool, and eggs—are worth $23.4 billion, or 37% of the country's agricultural GDP. Poultry dominates the livestock sector in terms of volume, with 1.6 million tons of chicken produced in Turkey in 2011, worth $4.8 billion, or just over one-fifth of the of the livestock sector. Poultry production has increased almost six fold over the past two decades, with Turkey producing just 282,000 tons of chicken in 1995. The year 2011 saw a 12% increase in chicken production compared to 2010.
Turkey's second-largest livestock segment, cattle, has traditionally been heavily protected, resulting in years of high prices and low consumption. However, in 2010, Turkey began to relax restrictions on cattle imports, and in 2011 it imported 110,000 tons of beef worth $500 million. This is still a small amount compared to total domestic beef consumption, which was 644,000 tons in 2011, and brought in $6.6 billion. Although the tariff reductions on cattle were initially intended to be temporary, it now looks as though they will remain in place, as Turkish herd numbers fail to match demand.
Milk and cheese are also important products for the livestock industry, and indeed, Turkey is one of the largest dairy producers in the region. In 2011, Turkey produced 15 million tons of milk, an 11.2% increase on 2010. The majority of milk production (92%) is cow milk, with sheep milk, goat milk, and a very small amount of buffalo milk making up the remaining 8%.
Given the strength of Turkey's agricultural sector, it is unsurprising that Turkey is a major player in terms of global agricultural exports. Turkey has long maintained a trade surplus in agricultural goods, and the past decade has seen a monumental surge in exports, from $3.6 billion in 2002 to $14 billion in 2011. Turkey's agricultural imports, particularly of cereals and oil seeds, have also risen over this period, from $2 billion to $10.8 billion. However, the country's strength as a giant in the production of fruits and nuts has allowed it to increase its trade surplus from $1.6 billion in 2002 to $3.3 billion in 2011.
Turkey cultivates approximately 150 agricultural products for export, and is among the top five exporters for more than 30 agricultural products. However, the country is now working to move up the value chain by building brand recognition for Turkish agricultural products abroad. As Ali Kavak, Chairman of the Citrus Promotion Group, explained to TBY, "not having that brand recognition has been a weak point for Turkish producers and exporters for years. Now, creating this brand image is crucial in a highly competitive international market." Kavak explained that Turkish industry is working to "create a viable and internationally recognized 'Made in Turkey' brand." Recep Konuk, President of Pankobirlik, expressed a similar sentiment. Speaking to TBY, Konuk explained that "Turkey aims to produce food brands that are known globally and provide a feeling of trust to consumers worldwide."
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In the MIST
Trend Setter
Zeroing in
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister, Republic of Turkey
Ahmet Davutoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Egemen Bağış, Minister of EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator, Turkey
Štefan Füle, Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbor, European Union
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Queen, the Netherlands
Mohamed Moncef Marzouki, President, Tunisia
Vince Cable, Secretary of State, Business, Innovation & Skills, the United Kingdom
Ibrahim Kalın, Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister, Turkey
Sharing the Dream
Surging Ahead
Leg Up for Growth
Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs, Turkey
Zafer Çağlayan, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Turkey
Hayati Yazıcı, Minister of Customs and Trade, Turkey
M. İlker Aycı, President, Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey
Ümit Boyner, President, TÜSİAD
M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, President, Union of Chambers & Commodity Exchanges of Turkey
Michel Akavi , Country Manager , DHL
Inherent Factors
Spring in Their Step
Fawaz Al-Issa, Chairman of the Board, Turkapital
Murat Yalçıntaş, President, Istanbul Chamber of Commerce (ITO)
Hüsnü Özyeğin, Founder & Chairman, Fiba Group
Mehmet Büyükekşi, Chairman, Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM)
Mark Lewis, Senior Resident Representative, IMF in Turkey
Michael Davey, Director, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development
The Bottom Line
Mehmet Şimşek, Minister of Finance, Turkey
Erdem Başçı, Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
Süleyman Aslan, CEO, Halkbank
Adnan Bali, CEO, İş Bank
Solid as a Rock
Freddie C. Baz, Group CFO & Strategy Director, Bank Audi
Integral, Not Alternative
Berna Ülman, Senior Vice-President and Regional General Manager, Visa Europe
Deal Makers
The Third Way
When Bulls Grow Paws
Vedat Akgiray, Chairman, Capital Markets Board of Turkey
İbrahim M. Turhan, Chairman & CEO, Istanbul Borsası (İMKB)
Cash in Hand
Make a Claim
Great Interests
Powering Tomorrow
Taner Yıldız, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey
Hasan Köktaş, President, Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA)
Bud Fackrell, President, BP Turkey
Fuel for Thought
Gerhard Roiss, CEO, OMV
Tony Hayward, CEO, Genel Energy
More of Sparky
Halil Alış, General Manager, EÜAŞ
Always Greener
Arın Çetin, Founder, Armacon
Renew Yourself
Like a Rock
Mine All Mine
Baran Umut Baycan, Founding Senior Partner, Baycan Law Office
A Bit of Elbow Grease
Nihat Ergün, Minister of Industry and Trade, Turkey
Adnan Dalgakıran, Chairman, Turkish Machinery Promotion Group (TMPG)
Full Speed Ahead
Fatih Tamay, Sales & Marketing Director, Anadolu Isuzu Otomotiv
The Car Pool
Cruise in Style
The Forge's Fire
What's on Offer
Lock & Load
İsmet Yılmaz, Minister of National Defense, Turkey
Sedat Güldoğan, Deputy Undersecretary, Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM)
Lütfi Varoğlu, Board Member, Defense & Aviation Industry Exporters Association
Hayrettin Uzun, General Manager, Turkish Armed Forces Foundation (TAFF)
İlhan Özaydın, General Manager, Kale Aero
Great White Wings
Hüseyin Baysak, Secretary General, SaSad
On Hold No More
K. Gökhan Bozkurt, CEO, Türk Telekom
Erkan Akdemir, CEO, Avea
Home Comforts
Drawing Connections
Ultra-high Capacity
Ekrem Dumanlı, CEO & Executive Editor-in-Chief, Zaman
Nuri Çolakoğlu, President, Doğan Media International
The Places You'll Go
Binali Yıldırım, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs, and Communications, Turkey
Hamdi Topçu, Chairman, Turkish Airlines
Origin & Destination
Get on Board
Süleyman Karaman, Chairman, Turkish State Railways (TCDD)
From Every Direction
Working All Angles
Erdoğan Bayraktar, Turkey, Minister for Environment and Urbanization
Ahmet Haluk Karabel, President, TOKİ
The Select Many
Rise to the Challenge
Osman Toprak, Member of the Board, Astay Yatırım
Building Away
From the Ground Up
Behind the Façade
Growing Up
Mehmet Eker, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Turkey
Mehmet Halis Bilden, Director General & Chairman, General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises
Osman Balta, GÜBRETAŞ, General Manager
Securing the Supply
Sweet Rewards
The Race for Life
Dr. Cem Bozkurt, CEO, Alvimedica
An Unsaturated Market
Enabling the Next Generation
Leman Çetin, Founder, International Small Hands Academy
Leonard A. Schlesinger, President, Babson College
Class Rank
The Final Frontier
Ertuğrul Günay, Minister of Culture and Tourism, Turkey
Canan Özdemir, Partner, The House Group
Meet Up Here
Stay Awhile
Permanent Collection
Serdar Paksoy, Senior Partner, Paksoy Istanbul
Jared Irving, Partner, KPMG Turkey
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Media Constructions of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This kit explores the ways in which King and his legacy have been portrayed in various media forms. The first lesson follows a chronology of King's life through interactive decoding of rich media documents (comic books, billboards, songs, music videos, etc.). The following lessons use excerpts of Dr. King's speeches from 1963, 1967 and 1968 to examine his views on social change; explore the portrayal of King in magazine covers, advertisements, Web sites, film clips and monuments; and use letters to the editor about celebrating King to explore challenges to change.
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So, you will be happy to know that it will all be over tonight at Midnight. The voting ends and the winner will be announced Nov. 1st. You you all have one more chance to head over and get in one more vote.
Here is a quick reminder of what my pillow looked like.
Thank you all so much. I promise I wont be asking for votes again for a while and (unless I win) you wont have to hear about my retro pillow any more. I will say though, that I will love you forever if you vote for me. Just sayin'!
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Internet Connection Speed Survey for Perth Metro Area
As we are aware the NBNCo roll out of Australia's Fibre Network has been recently announced and it's seen by many to be an excellent idea. However many areas of current internet services appear to be have left to flounder while this upgrade takes place over the next 10 years.
I will be making a submission of information I've gathered on behalf of the Central Eastern Business Association ( www.ceba.com.au ) over the last 3 years to a Government department in the coming weeks and need to collate some more data to give an idea of current services around the Perth Metro area.
Your help in collating this information will be anonymous and highly appreciated.
Here are some basic guidelines for the attached Excel spreadsheet:
Identification by Suburb and Postcode only is required. It is loosely based on the Perth Metro Area but outlying areas are also encouraged.
Where possible use Speedtest.net in one session to collate all the information needed.
As noted in the excel spreadsheet, Tests currently required include; Perth (likely to be your ISP's main server) Sydney, Singapore, San Francisco, New York and London. This will give a variety of results using both interstate and international connections.
If you regularly visit another city such as Tokyo, Dubai or Paris, please include test results for that.
The final information is your "Subjective" evaluation of the quality of your internet service from 1 to 5.
1 is poor and problematical through to 5 - I'm happy with the service "it does everything I need"
Comments on your service will also be helpful.
Please download the Excel Spreadsheet Perth Metro Internet Survey here:
Completed forms should be returned to email@example.com asap
or complete the Online version below and click then Submit
Please ensure you test to multipleCity locations so we gather some meaningful information,
So in summary we need you to:
1/ Go to Speedtest.net select cities to test.
2/ Write down the results for Download, Upload & Ping speeds
3/ COMPLETE ONLINE FORM: with the results and click SUBMIT for each destination City that you have tested.
Thank you for helping with this information gathering I'm hoping that this information will help improve the quality of service for everyone before the planned completion time of the NBN!
I'll post some results as soon as possible.
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text: Swinger? Huh? What? Uh, nope, sorry, I'll keep my keys to myself thank you." There used to be a time when you heard the word "swinger," and next thing you knew your car keys went into an empty fishbowl only to be pulled out by, hopefully some buxom brunette, and not Bruce your hirsute neighbor. Now, you utter the word swinger around the Sucker Punch Sallys (SPS) office and you'll get tossed a set of keys alright, but not for some torrid sexcapade, but for a ride aboard the company's sole bike that offers rear suspension. Building on the popularity of its BIY rollers and kit bikes, SPS decided to make things even easier for its customers by offering turnkey bikes. A quick look at the SPS website will reveal that the company offers up nine models and all but one are based on a rigid frame. Wanting to offer something with rear suspension that would be more comfortable for long trips and look good when outfitted with a windshield, saddlebags, and highway bars, SPS kept true to its stripped-down and traditional roots and went with an old FL look with some modern cues. The Swinger features Fatbob tanks, a 41mm telescopic frontend, stubby 11-inch adjustable rear shocks, full swept fenders covering chunked-up 16-inch tires, a 130 front and 180 rear, powdercoated spoked wheels, a low-profile two-up seat, an 88ci RevTech engine and six-speed transmission coupled to a BDL 3-inch open belt primary, chain final drive, and a two-into-one exhaust. Up front is a set of 12 inch apes with H-D-stlye hand controls and ribbed rubber grips. Down below, your kickers rest on a set of billet forward controls. Lighting consists of a 7 headlight up front and a set of mini LED front and rear turn signals and a left side-mount license bracket/brakelight in the rear. Overall the bike looks great, and even though it does have a swingarm, stylistically it fits with the rest of the SPS lineup. We do think SPS missed on some of the styling points however and could have taken the traditional FL elements a bit further. For example, the frontend definitely could have benefitted from a stouter look with full tins, the beefy headlight just looks lonely hanging in the breeze. Also, the forwards are comfortable, but if this is really going to be a long-haul bike, floorboards offer up more area and room to adjust. On the road, at just about 500 pounds, the bike really moves. The 88ci RevTech has plenty of juice to get you up and out ahead in a hurry, and clicking into Sixth gear at freeway speed dropped the revs down enough to make for smooth highway cruising while still leaving enough power to accelerate when needed. Zipping around, the bike is nimble and steady. Push it into a corner, and it stays right with you; whip it around an unexpected hazard and it reacts quickly. And with four-piston brakes front and rear, we found the braking to be pretty decent. As for a long-haul bike, hmm...yea it could be, but with its chopped rear suspension you better pack light and/or leave the little miss behind, because we found with no gear on the bike and riding solo we were getting a pretty hard jolt even on average-size bumps. While we did like the looks of the bike and it was fun to ride, as we mentioned above, it did have some misses. The biggest of which has to be the price. At $24,995, that's quite a bit of coin to be shelling out, especially when several other manufactures are targeting that under-20Gs goal. But the $24,995 price tag does include delivery to you anywhere in the continental US, a one-year factory warranty, and the paintjob of your choice, even a custom paintjob from esteemed artist Sara Ray-which we would recommend taking full advantage of to get the most bang for your buck. MODEL SWINGER ENGINE/DISPLACEMENT RevTech 88ci CARB S&S PRIMARY DRIVE BDL CLUTCH BDL TRANSMISSION RevTech six-speed FINAL DRIVE Chain FRONT BRAKE Four-piston REAR BRAKE Four-piston FRONT WHEEL/SIZE Spoke/16x3 REAR WHEEL/SIZE Spoke/16x5 FRONT TIRE/SIZE Avon/16x3-130 REAR TIRE/SIZE Avon/16x5-180 FRAME RAKE/STRETCH 30 degrees/None FUEL TANK CAPACITY, GAL. 4.2 gal. SEAT HEIGHT 24 inches MSRP $24,995 WEBSITE suckerpunchsallys.com By Eric Ellis Enjoyed this Post? Subscribe to our RSS Feed, or use your favorite social media to recommend us to friends and colleagues!


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Aww... It's a cute baby dragon. It seems to sleep during the day and glow when it wakes up at night.
And look! It has grown wings! It must be close to maturing.
Young dragons are relatively defenseless. Their scales don't grow in until right before they mature, and they have almost no strength. Once a hatchling's wings grow in, it marks the beginning of maturation. At this point they are usually left alone by their mother and begin to hunt and survive on their own.


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Three days before Christmas in 2000, on an affluent peninsula in Stockholm, an Iraqi gang pulled off an audacious art theft of a small, but priceless self-portrait of Rembrandt at the Swedish National Museum.
At heart, American Hustle is about love among con artists - is it ever real? Or is it always a con? And how can you tell the difference?
But before we celebrate too much, let's put the decline of murder in New York City -- and across the entire United States -- in some perspective.
For more than a month, the House Republican Conference has largely been able to paper over the deep divide it faces over sequestration. But the old gremlins are beginning to reappear.
Two events that erupted in 1990 forever changed Wittman's, and America's, outlook regarding art crime.
Stax Records was more than a music machine releasing hits by the likes of Otis Redding and The Staple Singers.
An independent feature film borne out of director Jay Dockendorf's reaction to hearing about the FBI's program of secret spying in mosques in Brooklyn, "Naz + Maalik" explores the world of two closeted Muslim teens who have their Friday afternoon ruined by FBI surveillance.
As revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden continue to mount, Americans have been shocked by the NSA's incredible invasions of privacy - some mo...
The "new" (to me) Newseum offers an amazing array of displays and information in its airy galleries packed with information on America's history, geography, politics, international relations, and media-related technological advances.
Given its epic flaws and omissions, it's little wonder that the Warren Report, which the Commission presented to President Johnson with great fanfare on September 28, 1964, has been over the years widely condemned as a monumental government fraud.
If you think there's an awful lot in the real world to be disturbed about, wait until you see what's happening in the virtual world. It's as real as real can be.
Whichever assassination theory you subscribe to, Thurston Clarke's JFK's Last Hundred Days will fill you with a tantalizing sense of what might have been -- had November 22 not happened.
In the free-wheeling '60s, those of us who considered ourselves activists used to joke about surveillance. If you were on the phone and heard a click, you'd make some crack about the FBI listening in and go right on talking.
Minutes after news went out that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been flushed out of the boat where he was hiding, Watertown exhaled. "Go Watertown!" crowds shouted.
Newly sworn in FBI Director James Comey has ordered all new FBI agent trainees to visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC, so the...
Several eyewitnesses gave us the same account of Tsarnaev's escape. Tsarnaev, driving a stolen Mercedes SUV, ran over his brother and then rammed the vehicle into two police cars that were blocking the road.


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The Problem At Hand
If you or somebody you know needs help with addiction in the Sunshine State, there are many options available. In fact, there are hundreds of drug rehab centers in Florida. The key is finding the right facility for you or your loved one so that the best possible help can be received.
While Florida is very well known for its tropical climate, warm weather, wetland wildlife and beautiful beaches, many people don't know that the state has some of the highest numbers of people battling addiction. One result of this problem is that there are plentiful options for those seeking help with substance abuse issues.
Overcoming Addiction at The Delray Recovery Center
Addiction is a complex issue and any "quick-fix" type of solution is most likely not the answer. Claims of "instant rehab" methods should be regarded with doubt and suspicion at best. A certain mindset led to the issues and problems in the first place. The Delray Recovery Center can help the user to cultivate a whole new perspective on the addiction that controls their life. The client can participate in healing group and individual activities, in an effort to rise above their issues.
Addiction must be addressed:
True, lasting transformation requires treating addiction from the inside out, holistically. Very often the addiction is a manifestation of inner issues, sort of a symptom of repressed or past pain that has not yet been addressed and healed.
Quitting alcohol or other drugs "cold turkey" can result in a variety of physical withdrawal symptoms. The rehab center will be able to prescribe medication to ease these symptoms and make the detoxification process as smooth and comfortable as possible. The client is monitored by trained medical staff, so a rehab facility is by far the safest place to engage the detoxification process.
Talk Therapy
The therapist and the client together will "peel away the layers of the onion," so to speak, in order to get to the root of the problem. There is usually a core anxiety that is causing the person to self-medicate, to numb their feelings. The anxiety always has a cause – it could be childhood trauma or trauma experienced later in life which has not yet been processed and healed.
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Our addiction treatment and recovery facility can provide you with a program that can be customized to address your personal needs. Our programs are a blend of alternative, holistic, and traditional therapies that are based on the clinical needs of the individual. They consist of educational seminars, group and individual counseling sessions, life skills workshops, and 12-Step programs.
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If you or someone you care for is currently caught up in the destructive grip of addiction, please seek help with The Delray Recovery Center. We are an addiction treatment provider that understands the struggle. We know the suffering of drug addiction and the heartache of the families involved.


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Have you snored through one presentation too many? Or worse, given a snooze-worthy talk?
In this interview, Eric Bergman describes his cure for death by PowerPoint (or other slideware used badly). Author of the recently published book Five Steps to Conquer 'Death by PowerPoint," Eric gives us tools that offer a fresh new way of looking at presentations. Specifically, he shares these five steps:
- Put your audience first
- Structure the conversation
- Minimize visual aids
- Convey your message and personality
- Answer questions throughout
You can listen to the conversation with Eric with the player below, you can download the MP3 file to listen later, or you can subscribe to this podcast in iTunes.
Trafcom News Podcast 111: Conquering death by PowerPoint by donnapapacosta
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Objective Education about substance use disorders in medical schools and, subsequently, physicians' identification of and intervention in these diagnoses lag behind that of most other disabling disorders. To reduce barriers and improve access to education about this major public health concern, medical schools are increasingly adopting web-based instruction on substance use and other psychiatric disorders as part of their curricula; however, it is not well known how a web-streamed lecture compares with a traditional one. The authors hypothesized that both these formats would be equally efficacious in terms of knowledge acquisition and student satisfaction.
Method Authors conducted a prospective study to test this hypothesis among third-year medical students who received web-streamed lecture on substance use/addiction versus those who received a traditional live lecture.
Results Of the 243 students, significantly more students completed the on-line lecture series. Of the 216 students in the final study sample, 130 (60%) were assigned to the web-streamed lecture and 86 (40%) to the live lecture. Within-subject comparisons of pre- and post-lecture scores for the entire cohort indicated a significant improvement in the percentage of correct answers (21.0% difference). Although no differences in improved scores between the two groups were found, students in the live-lecture group reported small, but significantly higher levels of satisfaction.
Conclusions This preliminary work supports the hypothesis that a web-streamed lecture can be at least equally efficacious as a traditional lecture in terms of knowledge acquisition. However, attention needs to be paid to the lower satisfaction levels associated with using the web-streamed format.
Substance use disorders are among the top causes of disability and disease in the world, and particularly in young people (WHO) (1). Although substance use disorders are as common as, and share many features with, other chronic illnesses, such as hypertension, diabetes, and asthma (2), medical educators still dedicate less time to teaching this topic (3). The low frequency, accuracy, and effectiveness of physicians' diagnoses and treatments of substance use disorders is believed to be at least partially attributable to a striking lack of medical school education or training on addictive diseases, including teaching at the undergraduate level (4).
Thus, expanding medical school psychiatry rotation to include substance use and employing novel techniques to deliver didactic material are important steps in the right direction (5). Better training is likely to have a positive impact on future physicians' ability and attitude toward diagnosing, treating, or referring patients with psychiatric and substance-related comorbidities (4, 6). Medical students already believe they are not sufficiently educated on substance-related disorders (7). In one study, medical students ranked alcohol and drug abuse as the second-most important psychiatric topic, while rating the quality of its teaching as low compared with other topics taught (8).
Understanding students' beliefs about substance use disorders is a fundamental step in addressing the issue of negative attitudes so often reported in previous studies (9, 10). According to Leist and Kristofco, a "teachable moment" is when a learner is most receptive to accepting and using new information, attitudes, or skills while they are in training (11). Thus, having lectures accessible anywhere and at any time would stand to improve the likelihood of matching the timing of the lecture to the student's maximum receptivity. In an attempt to improve access to the didactic learning from traditional face-to-face lectures, medical schools are increasingly adopting web-based learning, but with little-or-no research to validate and guide these novel delivery approaches (13). Therefore, we sought to find out whether a web-streamed lecture could be as efficacious as a traditional live lecture in terms of knowledge acquisition and student satisfaction.
Our study subjects were third- and fourth-year medical students at the University of Michigan Medical School who were enrolled in a newly-expanded (increased from 4 to 6 weeks) psychiatry rotation. Students were enrolled in a 6-week rotation in psychiatry (a total of seven rotations, numbered 1–7, for the purposes of this study). After receiving a waiver of informed consent from our human subjects institutional review board, we conducted the study from June 2005 to May 2006. We alternately assigned students in seven successive rotations to the web-streamed lecture. The web-streamed lecture (for students in odd-numbered rotations) consisted of the voice of the presenter with PowerPoint slides sequentially alternating with video and voice of the presenter versus the traditional live lecture (for students in even-numbered rotations). We compared the live lecture with the web-streamed video of the same lecture by the same faculty member (KHM) in terms of students' information acquisition and satisfaction. The students were administered the same 10 multiple-choice questions in the same order both before and after the lecture. We added five demographic items to the pre-lecture set and two items, assessing students' satisfaction with the instruction (on a 5-point Likert-type scale), to the post-lecture questionnaire (Appendix 1).
All students took the same test, and their pre- and post-tests were anonymously matched using serial numbers. Our primary outcome was students' short-term acquisition of knowledge relating to substance use disorders, as measured by the difference between the baseline and the post-lecture scores. Our secondary outcome was students' level of satisfaction and perception that the instruction met their educational needs. Demographic differences in the two lecture groups (age, gender, race/ethnicity, income for student's family of origin) were analyzed by chi-square and t-tests, to rule out the possibility that results were confounded by demographic differences. To assess potential differences in knowledge acquisition between the groups, a repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed using lecture format as the between-subjects factor and time of test (pre- and post-lecture) as the within-subjects factor. Finally, a multivariate ANOVA was used to assess differences between lecture groups on the two questions about satisfaction. All tests were two-tailed. Analyses were conducted with SPSS (PASW Statistics 18) software (IBM; Armonk, NY).
Of 243 eligible participants, 216 participated in the lecture on substance use disorders and completed both the pre- and post-lecture questionnaires; the remainder either did not attend the in-person lecture or did not take one or both questionnaires (pre and/or post). Among the 216 completed, there were 130 (60%) in the web-based lecture group and 86 (40%) in the live-lecture group (Χ2[1]=11.45; p=0.001). Students did not differ significantly in terms of demographic characteristics (Table 1). About 43% were women; three-fourths were between the ages of 20 and 25 years; 50% were Caucasian; 31.3% were Asian-American; 5.3% were African-American; and 3.4% were Hispanic. Our sample's family incomes were diverse, with about 53% earning <$56K per year, 20% earning $101K–$150K per year, and 26% earning ≥$151K per year.
Figure 1 shows the mean test scores by lecture group. The two groups did not differ significantly in their pre-lecture test scores (43.4% versus 43.1% for the online and live-lecture groups, respectively). The repeated-measures ANOVA revealed a significant effect of time from the pre-test to post-test (F[1, 214]=275.4; p<0.0005), but no main effect of lecture group (F[1, 214]=0.71; NS) and no interaction of time × group (F[1, 214]=1.10; NS). The mean difference between pre- (43.3%; SD: 14.4%) and post-test (64.5%; SD: 17.8%) scores for the entire sample was 21.0% (SE=1.3; p<0.0005; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 18.5–23.5. However, students in the live-lecture group reported significantly higher levels of satisfaction (0.38 mean difference; 95% CI: 0.06–0.69; p=0.019) and higher levels of perception that the instruction met their educational needs (0.53 mean difference; 95% CI: 0.28–0.78; p<0.0005).
When the University of Michigan Medical School initiated its curriculum redesign in 2005 (expanding the 3rd-year psychiatry rotation from 4 to 6 weeks), it seemed reasonable that the web-streamed method would be more logistically convenient for students and more time-efficient for faculty than the traditional, face-to-face lecture format. However, it was not clear to what extent students' acquisition of knowledge, satisfaction, and perception of the instruction would differ and whether it would meet their educational needs. Our findings demonstrate that web-based delivery of a lecture can be at least equivalent to live instruction in terms of the knowledge acquired by students. Although the differences between the two instructional formats on the satisfaction scale were small (<1 point on a 5-point scale), they were statistically significant. Lower satisfaction with the online lecture format could be due in part to the technical difficulties initially encountered by some students (e.g., poor audio quality or fixed video speed). These problems were remedied in later presentations of the web-based lecture (about halfway through the test period); it is not known whether the difficulties (or their correction) represent a confounding factor in our data. We speculate that the ideal method of maximizing knowledge acquisition and students' satisfaction might be to take it a step further. That is, to have a "virtual" question-and-answer capability (ability to submit questions to the lecturer and receive answers). The other possible enhancement is to have a hybrid approach: first delivering the online lecture and then following it with live group discussion (in lieu of a lecture) to allow students to ask questions. This recommendation is based on the reported student preferences, as the opportunity to interact and to have question-and-answer sessions was the most frequent written request. Those requests were placed in the Comments section by students in the online group, after the post-lecture test. A question-and-answer (Q&A) period is a part of the live lecture. Adopting a virtual Q&A capability may be more feasible and practical then the hybrid approach, as it would avoid the need to add back some faculty time.
The self-scheduled nature of web-based learning may prove advantageous for its convenience factor in fostering learning. The logistical convenience of web-based learning is also important, given the multisite nature of outpatient clinical rotations for medical students (12). In this study, more students completed the on-line instructional format than the live lecture, perhaps because of flexibility in scheduling. Martin and Bennett (13) found that 84% of third-year medical students rated web-based lectures to be as good as or better than live lectures during their psychiatry clerkships. On the other hand, medical students, along with the general public, often harbor negative attitudes about this patient population. These feelings/perceptions could interfere with the learning process and are better addressed in small-group discussion; this would favor a hybrid approach instead of simply adding a Q&A to the online lecture. Evaluation of a hybrid approach, as described above, would be a justified next step of study, since small-group discussions are known to provide comparatively higher satisfaction levels, plus the opportunity for Q&A sessions, as several of our students requested.
If proved effective in different settings, either model (adding online Q&A or hybrid) would be a potential alternative to the traditional lecture format and would help to overcome some of the limitations of schedule, faculty time, and multiple locations. The premise of the online approach is the ability to extend standardized instruction to other educational settings in psychiatry and even other medical specialties. Our study had several strengths, including the ability to study a large number of students over an entire class-year and our blinded matching of pre- and post-lecture questionnaires. A limitation of the study includes the initial technical difficulties we encountered in the online lecture. Nevertheless, we believe online instruction in substance-related disorders represents a real opportunity for other medical schools, as it has for ours. Another limitation is not having long-term follow-up or other measures for retention of learned content. Future work could also measure the effectiveness of this new method by tracking skills-acquisition, or whether students are using the knowledge gained in their clinical work. It would also be useful to incorporate a Q&A section to the streamed lecture and to study a hybrid approach that combines a live Q&A session with web-based instruction.
J.W. is a 34-year-old male whose drinking began to escalate around the time of his divorce three months ago. He has noticed that it takes significantly more beers to give him a "buzz" than it did three months ago, and recently he has found himself taking a quick shot of whiskey in the morning to get rid of his "shakes." He has called in sick from work several times in the last few weeks, and his boss is angry with him. His friends are concerned because they haven't heard from him in awhile, and he has essentially stopped socializing with them. Which of the following is a true statement?
A. J.W. meets the DSM-IV criteria for substance dependence.
B. J.W. meets the DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse, but not substance dependence.
C. J.W. should be advised not to stop drinking abruptly without medical supervision, because this could be life-threatening.
D. Both A and C are true.
E. Both B and C are true.
(The answer is E.)
L.S. is a 27-year-old third-year medical student who has been under a lot of stress recently, since she is in the middle of her surgery rotation. To unwind, she often smokes a joint with her roommate after she gets home from the hospital; she has been doing this several times a week over the last two months. She shows up on time for rounds every morning, and her senior resident is pleased with her work. She smokes marijuana only in her home, has never driven after smoking, and has never been in any legal trouble. Her friends and family are unaware of her marijuana use, and apparently she has maintained healthy relationships with all of them. Which of the following is a true statement?
A. L.S. meets the DSM-IV criteria for substance dependence.
B. L.S. meets the DSM-IV criteria for substance abuse, but not substance dependence.
C. L.S. is at risk for the so-called "amotivational syndrome."
(The answer is C.)
B.L. is a 76-year-old patient of yours at the VA hospital. He has a 50-pack-year smoking history. He was admitted yesterday with chest pain. Serial cardiac enzymes and EKG's ruled him in for an M.I. You ask him how he is feeling today, and he replies, "I'm okay…I just really want a cigarette." Which of the following is the most appropriate response?
A. "Mr. L., you can go down to the smoking shelter as soon as you're off the telemetry unit."
B. "Mr. L., you need to quit smoking."
C. "Mr. L., your smoking contributed to your heart attack. Now would be a really good time to quit. Would you be interested in wearing a nicotine patch to help with your cravings?"
D. "Mr. L., your smoking contributed to your heart attack. Now would be a really good time to quit. Unfortunately, I can't give you a nicotine patch, because they're unsafe in patients after a heart attack. Would you be interested in learning about other things we can do to help you quit?"
E. "Mr. L., have you tried low-tar cigarettes? They are safer than full-flavor cigarettes."
The most critical time in developing complications during alcohol detoxification is:
A. 12-24 hours after the patient's last drink.
B. 24-48 hours after the patient's last drink.
C. 2-5 days after the patient's last drink.
D. One week after the patient's last drink.
E. It is impossible to predict.
You are doing your rotation in the ER one night, and a 19-year-old male arrives from EMS in four-point restraints. A paramedic yells out the patient's vital signs (BP 190/100, pulse 110, temp 98.5, respirations 16) and explains that the patient was put in restraints due to severe agitation. The patient is furiously trying to get loose from the restraints, and is yelling, "The pink bear! Don't you see the pink bear?" Neuro exam is significant for vertical and rotary nystagmus and 3+ reflexes throughout. Which of the following statements is true?
A. The patient should be treated with activated charcoal immediately.
B. The patient is likely intoxicated with LSD.
C. A dose of IM Haldol to treat the patient's psychotic symptoms and agitation would be appropriate.
D. All of the above are true.
E. Both A and C are true.
(The answer is A.)
Which of the following symptoms is characteristic of withdrawal from cocaine or other stimulants?
A. Dysphoric mood and suicidality.
B. Intense craving.
C. Tremor.
D. All of the above are characteristic of cocaine withdrawal.
E. Both A and B are characteristic of cocaine withdrawal.
You are working in the ER one night when M.T., 24-year-old male, presents with multiple complaints. He notes diarrhea, diffuse muscle/bone/joint aches, nausea, vomiting, and intense anxiety. He is yawning throughout the interview. You notice that his pupils are markedly dilated, and he has "goosebumps" all over his skin. Vital signs are as follows: Temp 100.7, BP 190/95, HR 100, RR 16. Which of the following statements about this patient's condition are true?
A. This patient's condition is life-threatening.
B. This patient may be treated with clonidine.
C. On the longer term, this patient may be a candidate for buprenorphine therapy.
E. Choices B and C are true.
D.B. is a 75-year-old male with a remote history of alcohol dependence (now in sustained full remission) who presents to his primary care physician complaining of insomnia. Which of the following would be the most appropriate sleep aid for this patient considering his history?
A. Benadryl or OTC sleep aids.
B. Ativan or Xanax.
C. Halcion or Ambien.
D. Gabapentin or Trazodone.
E. Any of the above would be appropriate.
(The answer is D.)
Which of the following statements about Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step groups is true?
A. Participants must believe in God.
B. Participants are required to abstain from alcohol and other drugs if they wish to continue attending meetings.
C. AA and other 12-step groups are the best available maintenance treatment for substance dependence.
Which of the following substances is responsible for the most deaths per year in the United States?
A. Alcohol.
B. Cocaine.
C. Opiates.
D. Tobacco.
E. Marijuana.
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Review: 2010 Cadillac CTS-V, King of the Super-sedans
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BMW launched the era of the modern high-performance luxury sedan a quarter century ago with the M5. Blending the twin-cam 3.5-liter inline-six from the defunct M1 supercar with the mid-size 5 series body shell created a whole new segment. Since then numerous other automakers have joined the fray with the likes of the Jaguar XFR, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG and Audi RS6.
When Cadillac introduced the original CTS it was meant to directly take on the likes of the E-Class and 5 series. In order to be taken completely seriously it was decided to create a similar high performance variant which was dubbed the CTS-V. The first generation CTS-V featured a 400 horsepower small-block V8 from the Corvette. This car was quick but still not as sophisticated as its European counterparts. This is a market segment that doesn't stand still and the European incumbents were approaching 500 hp and beyond with their entries. For its second generation, Cadillac intended to place the CTS-V firmly at the top of the super-sedan heap. Read on to find out if they succeeded.
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What a view from the Rainbow Bridge, Odaiba. Worth the walk.
Nevermind the Fujifilm building, I liked the tug boats the most.
A bowl of perfection.
Oh, the joy of eating a steaming bowl of (Tanuki?) soba after being swept away by the cold and crowds is something I can't describe. This simple dish in a small obscure shop in Tennoji, Osaka was really one of the best meals I had in Japan.
Around Tsukiji Market, Tokyo.
The sushi was sooo good…The salmon sashimi was melting in my mouth, doing a little dance around my tastebuds. Om nom nommm…
I just started pointing at things, making sure they were seafood and just putting it in my mouth. "What's that..dunno..let's eat it." was said many times that morning.
You want three wishes;
One to fly the heavens, one to swim like fishes.
You want never bitter and all delicious, and a clear conscience and all it's blisses.
You want one true lover with a thousand kisses, you want soft and gentle and never vicious.
Edo-Tokyo Museum. So much fun unintentional learning.
I'm a liar, I'm not done with Japan yet. These old folks were so cute and enthusiastic about dancing. I had to post it. Also it's because nothing worthy of a photo is happening, just daily routines (maybe therein lies the challenge?).
And with this, I say enough pictures of the land of the rising sun.
Japan, you are truly awesome.
Kiyomezu-dera, Kyoto.
If I had to choose a place to extend my internship, it would definitely be in Kyoto. So many things to see and do. I fell in love with the place.
Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto.
By the time we finished looking at all the love shrines etc. it was too late to catch a good glimpse of the other temples. We stood there, waiting for the sun to set and told each other stories of our childhood and hopes for the future.
"I was a weird kid, you see. I used to close my eyes and play a game where I'd list 10 things I can hear."
"Well let's do that. One, water. Two, bell ringing. You should start, you're losing.", he replied me with a big smile on his face.
We opened our eyes only to be greeted by the setting sun. It was only him, me, and a 300 year old temple. It was perfect.
Spider vs photographer in Roponggi, Tokyo.
That's all for me this week. I'll be sitting for my orthopedics exam this Friday, then a week off that will be spent camping in a national park near Kuching and delivering cutie patootie babies into the world (a prerequisite of 15 babies so that I can graduate. Let's hope it was mating season 9 months ago!). Have a good week! Much love.
Kaminarimon, Asakusa.
I was standing in front of the gate when a very curious Japanese lady decided to ask me where I'm from and was shocked and slightly amazed that I was traveling alone, armed with only 5 Japanese phrases (smiling and gesturing usually does the trick). She "adopted" me and took me to have traditional sweets with her :) She really made my day!


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With the almost gleeful round-the-clock coverage of DrunkAstroGate unfolding last weekend, the casual viewer could be forgiven for missing the NASA stories that actually matter. Here's how I distinguish them from what's passing for news: these angles are fundamental to the functioning of the agency, and even the health of the planet, which is more than I can say for a vodka or two too many on the Soyuz.
Not that astronauts should be flying drunk, but I'd like to see more reporters focus on these three NASA angles instead:
Not that NASA is focusing on that. Or cable news. Kind of makes you want to take a drink and hitch a flight off this rock.
Before we do either, consider this oddity in the coverage of the drunken astronaut fiasco: Several reports talked about how NASA has only been in the news for scandalous behavior, since that other astronaut went an on ill-fated mission to track down a romantic rival earlier this year.
What ever happened to the Mars rovers, a phenomenal success that succeeded all expectations? Those little robots exemplify what is absolutely right about NASA: Ingenious engineering that extends our reach to the far ends of the solar system in pursuit of knowledge. In this case, the data about a watery past on Mars provides new insights into the possibilities of life on planets other than our own. The names of these two rovers neatly summarize NASA at its best: Spirit and Opportunity.
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George Schiffman, MD, FCCPDr. Schiffman received his B.S. degree with High Honors in biology from Hobart College in 1976. He then moved to Chicago where he studied biochemistry at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle. He attended Rush Medical College where he received his M.D. degree in 1982 and was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society. He completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency at the University of California, Irvine. Medical Editor:
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Most people who develop pneumonia initially have symptoms of a cold (upper respiratory infection, for example, sneezing, sore throat, cough), which are then followed by a high fever (sometimes as high as 104 F), shaking chills, and a cough with sputum production. The sputum is usually discolored and sometimes bloody. Depending on the location of the infection, certain symptoms are more likely to develop. When the infection settles in the air passages, cough and sputum tend to predominate the symptoms. In some, the spongy tissue of the lungs that contain the air sacs is more involved. In this case, oxygenation of the blood can be impaired, along with stiffening of the lung, which results in shortness of breath. At times, the individual's skin color may change and become dusky or purplish (a condition known as cyanosis) due to their blood being poorly oxygenated. The only pain fibers in the lung are on the surface of the lung, in the area known as the pleura. Chest pain may develop if the outer aspects of the lung close to the pleura are involved in the infection. This pain is usually sharp and worsens when taking a deep breath and is known as pleuritic pain or pleurisy. In other cases of pneumonia, depending on the causative organism, there can be a slow onset of symptoms. A worsening cough, headaches, and muscle aches may be the only symptoms. Children and babies who develop pneumonia often do not have any specific signs of a chest infection but develop a fever, appear quite ill, and can become lethargic. Elderly people may also have few of the characteristic symptoms with pneumonia. Reviewed by Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD on 3/22/2013 Patient CommentsViewers share their comments
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Big data is probably the single most important trend in information usage for both business and IT in the past decade. It is changing the way companies make decisions, do business, succeed or fail. Using information and insights intelligently to anticipate and profit from change. It is causing IT to...
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Operational Analytics from A to Z
As the market demands faster and more accurate responses to opportunities and threats, operational analytics is becoming the foundation for real-time decision making. The paper outlines the business value and technological foundations of operational analytics.
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Oracle Exadata and IBM PureData System for Analytics compared
This 20 page eBook examines Oracle Exadata and the IBM PureData System for Analytics as data warehouse platforms including OLTP, query performance, simplicity of operation, and value. Read the eBook to learn how the PureData System's performance reduces the costs of owning and running data warehouses, and creates new business...
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Tech Roundup: How to Take Advantage of Big Data Analytics
Imagine being able to take every piece of information created about your organization across any digital environment and being able to leverage it to be more competitive. How organizations plan and implement these initiatives will ultimately determine how successful they will be. And if your organization is looking for more...
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Tech Roundup: Big Data
While Big Data as a technology may still be finding its way into the business world, it's already becoming the hottest trend for organizations looking for a competitive edge. But it will require is a better understanding of what big data is and isn't - only then an organization can...
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Tech Roundup: Big Data, An Untapped Resource
Organizations worldwide are quickly realizing the value of gathering, processing, storing and taking action on large volumes of data. However, determining the right strategy to help sort through all of this information is not as simple as many companies would like it to be. In this intelligence report, you...
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The Future of IT: Managing Service Relationships
Every department in the enterprise is a service provider. Yet, very few have matured the service model to the level of enterprise IT. They are often inefficient, unstructured, or non-existent in other enterprise service domains. Savvy IT leaders view this as an opportunity to leverage IT service expertise and enable...
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Hands-on with ServiceNow: An In-Depth Demo
We will show you the power of the ServiceNow single system of record through some easy-to-follow demonstrations. This webinar includes demonstrations of: Incident, Problem and Change Management Service Catalog & Self Service Performance Analytics
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Build a Business Case: Developing Custom Apps
Custom applications deliver significant value and they provide the opportunity to automate unstructured work processes to make the business far more innovative, efficient and competitive.
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The Now State of IT
Join Craig McDonogh and Rob Phillips for a live demonstration of what can happen when ServiceNow is used across an enterprise. You'll see representative examples from the CIO to the Facilities Manager and everyone in between.
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Benefits Administration
Workday Benefits Administration helps your organization automate your global benefits program while giving you the tools to define, manage, and adjust benefit plans to meet your unique business requirements.
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Kimberly-Clark CIO Ramon Baez Shares the Business Reasons for Selecting Workday
Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 150 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people—nearly a quarter of the world's population—trust Kimberly-Clark brands to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. Workday addresses the challenges of low user adoption of previous...
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Product Preview: Big Data Analytics
Workday arms employees, managers, and executives with valuable insight they need to make informed decisions. With Big Data Analytics you can integrate, analyze, and visualize Workday and non-Workday data in a more resourceful and powerful way. Watch the video to learn more
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Epipheo Video: HR and Finance Are Made for Each Other
Think about it, your people and your money spend a lot of time together. People drive financial performance and financial goals drive people performance. Watch this short video to learn how Workday unifies your HR and financials applications into one seamless system.
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Workday Webinar: The Enterprise Cloud For Finance
Let Dave Blanchard, editorial director at Business Finance Magazine, show you how to use business insight to overcome today's most pressing challenges and achieve optimum business performance.
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Whitepaper - Clarifying the Value of Human Capital for Finance Professionals
Today's top organizations are uniting HR and Financials. Sponsored by Workday, this whitepaper demonstrates why HR and Finance work best when they work together.
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Is Your Financial System Killing Your Business? Watch video
Stay agile with financial management built from the cloud up. Workday provides you with everything you need right from the core of the application. Watch the video to learn more.
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Surviving and Thriving in a World of Change
How can you survive and thrive in a world of rapid change? Watch the Workday webinar, The Burning Platform for Finance, to learn. : Gain a more complete picture of your business Optimize resources to streamline your strategic finance organization Engage workers and drive up productivity...
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Changing Times, Changing Business: Why Finance Management is Moving to Cloud
The dedicated research and publication of this report were sponsored by Workday. The research and analysis presented in this report includes findings from a dedicated survey and interview program with ongoing Saugatuck Technology research programs, including our global survey and interview work with user enterprise business and IT leaders, briefings...
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Is Your Financial System Killing Your Business? See infographic
Nearly half of today's CFOs say they do not have the tools needed to make sound business decisions and four out of five CFOs feel trapped in their current role. View the infographic to learn how innovative CFOs today are pushing to change this.
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Video - Conversations on the Future of Business: Customer Centricity
Organizations must put consumers at the forefront of everything they do. From customer service, to product development, to sales and marketing, "customer centricity" is the main objective. Video game retailer GameStop has always consistently been at the cutting edge of customer-centric strategy. From its innovative customer loyalty program to its...
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Desktop Virtualization: Partnering for a Successful Long-term Strategy-ESG
Today, end-user computing comes in many varieties and forms, including desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, netbooks, and thin clients. Employee roles and responsibilities are equally varied. While task workers often access their applications and data from a single device in the workplace, many knowledge workers today are finding themselves becoming increasingly...
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Total Cost Comparison: VMware vSphere V.S. Microsoft Hyper-V
Total cost of ownership (TCO) is the ultimate measure to compare IT infrastructure platforms, as it incorporates the purchase and support costs of the platform along with ongoing operational and management expenses. The operational efficiency built into your software stack can greatly affect your bottom line—once you have procured...
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Backup Basics. Choosing the Right Data Protection System
Data is often the most important non-human asset that a company has. It represents the actual information and details behind the products and services that each company provides. If this data is lost, becomes corrupt, or is unavailable, it can have a major adverse effect on whether or not your...
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Ponemon Institute: 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Australia
We are pleased to present the 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study: Australia, which is the second annual study of Australian companies. Sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, this year's study is based on a representative sample of 33 organisations in various industry sectors. Read the complete report to see...
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Security Without Compromise: Context-Aware and Adaptive Next-Generation Firewalls
Mobility has brought down the wall between business and personal, spiking corporate productivity and putting work/life balance within reach. The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon is a way to be constantly connected for work, family, and play. Companies that do not adapt and allow people to work where, when, and how they...
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BI forward: A full view of your business
Do more and see more with a BI solution that includes predictive analytics.
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Video: Smarter Analytics - Reducing the cost of risk at University of California
The University of California, the largest higher education institution in the world, applied Smarter Analytics to significantly improve the enterprise risk information system for smarter decision-making. With ERMIS, UCOP was able to reduce the cost of risk from around $18 per thousand of operating budget to around $13.43, translating to...
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Case Study: Clark County Family Services boosts its ROI to $10M
Clark Country, Nevada is the nation's 15th largest county, supporting more than 2 million residents and 42 million tourists a year. The Family Services department is one of its largest divisions, providing services to protect children through development of nurturing, stable families in collaboration with community providers. After a rigorous...
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Case Study: Learning Healthy Habits- BJC School Outreach and Youth Development
BJC School Outreach and Youth Development wanted to provide schools with meaningful intelligence about the effectiveness of its health curriculum, but was hampered by antiquated, in-house data analysis and reporting tools. Read on to see how BJC School Outreach and Youth Development replaced its patchwork of spreadsheets with IBM SPSS...
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Whitepaper: Capitalize on the power of big data to transform marketing
Leading marketers in retail, banking, telecommunications, digital media, travel and transportation and other industries have already started to take advantage of big data to effect change. They are implementing analytics solutions to access the full breadth of information, discover new patterns, better anticipate customer behaviors and determine the next best...
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Smarter Analytic Self Assessment Tool
Analyze Your Analytics. Find out how smart your organization is about using analytics, compared to the competition. Complete this short assessment. You will receive personalized recommendations for improvement and optimization, based on your profile and answers. Interested in Data Analytics? Access Mastering Business Analytics HUB today to get an...
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Video: Five Game Changing Use Cases for Big Data
Hear Inhi Cho Suh and Jason Verlen from IBM share with you the five game changing use cases for big data. These game changing use cases will help you translate the promise of big data into tangible outcomes for your organization. This session will help you get started in deploying...
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Video: Why Data Matters: Context Reveals Answers
When can a piece of data provide information that matters? IBM expert Jeff Jonas explains how context involves taking each transaction, deciding where it fits, and analyzing its surroundings in order to draw insight. Interested in Data Analytics? Access Mastering Business Analytics HUB today to get an exclusive access to...
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Webroot System Analyzer - Free Application
Fast, accurate diagnosis equals rapid, cost-effective remediation. Webroot System Analyzer looks inside a problem system and gives you a quick assessment plus a detailed report on all aspects of hardware, OS, and installed applications. Simply click web link and run application - no install or uninstall required Summary Analysis pinpoints...
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Big Data: Delivering an Agile Infrastructure for Time-Critical Analytics in Telecommunications
Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are differentiating their services by continuously monitoring quality of service in real-time and offering timely and proactive customer care. This requires an agile, high-performance big data infrastructure that is able to scale and manage multiple time critical workloads. Learn how IBM big data & analytics solutions...
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Customer Analytics: A Powerful Source of Competitive Advantage for Midsize Organizations
Organizations that adopt customer analytics can provide a higher level of service and build strong customer relationships. Learn how in this newsletter, featuring new research from Gartner. Top 3 takeaways: The amount of customer data now available through all channels and sources is staggering. Businesses need to gather...
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The Strategic Importance of OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
Read how OLAP give organizations the deep business insight needed to make more informed decisions.
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Identity and Access Management Buyer's Guide
This buyer's guide provides assistance in evaluating identity and access management solutions. It describes common identity and access management challenges and the capabilities required to address them, and it includes checklists for assessing vendors and their products.
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IBM Cognos Express Product Demo Overview
Delivering essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that workgroups and midsize companies need at a price they can afford.
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Integrative CRM Enhances Midsize Business Agility and Performance
There is a fundamental shift in CRM today from simply being customer focused or customer-centric to proactively being customer-activated. Clients in today's consumer economy desire to be treated as individuals with very specific and highly personalized needs and they want their voices to be heard and acted upon.
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IBM and SAP: Delivering enterprise solutions for a world on the move
IBM supports SAP clients with business consulting services with global implementation and outsourcing capabilities plus infrastructure of optimized servers (mainframe, POWER, x, BladeCenter) and storage, DB2 database, Alloy, middleware and software. An innovation partner for SAP projects.
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Enterprise Feedback: BlackBerry 10 is a Natural Evolution for McCain & Air Canada
McCain Foods Ltd. and Air Canada are long-time BlackBerry® enterprise customers. In this short video, senior IT leaders from both companies explain why they see BlackBerry® 10 as the natural evolution of their mobile strategy.
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Tech Roundup: How to Take Advantage of Big Data Analytics
Imagine being able to take every piece of information created about your organization across any digital environment and being able to leverage it to be more competitive. How organizations plan and implement these initiatives will ultimately determine how successful they will be. And if your organization is looking for more...
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Tech Roundup: Big Data
While Big Data as a technology may still be finding its way into the business world, it's already becoming the hottest trend for organizations looking for a competitive edge. But it will require is a better understanding of what big data is and isn't - only then an organization can...
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Intel® Inspector XE 2013
Intel® Inspector XE finds memory leaks, corruption, deadlocks, data races, and more in C, C++, C#, F#, Fortran, and MPI applications. Use a normal build: no special compiler or recompiles are required. Heap growth analysis and debugger breakpoints simplify diagnosis of difficult bugs early in the development cycle?when they are...
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Digital E-Commerce: The Difference Between Selling a Product and Selling a Perpetual Customer Relationship
Read the White Paper to learn how online selling of digital content can take traditional retail e-commerce a huge step further into a new and highly impactful sales and relationship-building environment: headless commerce.
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How Foglight Makes User Experience Management a Reality: Three Case Studies
Three case studies in one. Following up on their 2012 report, User Experience Management and Business Impact: A Cornerstone for IT Transformation, industry analysts Enterprise Management Associates (EMS) interview three users of Foglight User Experience Management from Dell to underscore the appeal of UEM, its essential value to IT, and...
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Beyond Web Analytics
Web analytics give you a snapshot of what is happening on your website, but they don't give you the full picture. Foglight User Experience Management from Dell enables you to record every step of every customer's visit to your site. Now, you can track customer behavior, see what they see,...
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A CIO Guide - Building Business Trust with Application Performance Monitoring
Does your IT organization's management solution lack support for the latest technologies? Industry analyst group EMS is in a constant dialogue with CIOs about their top challenges and concerns. Surprisingly, many are saying the solutions available to them are insufficient to their needs, particularly with regard to mobile and application...
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Discover how Business Process Management can help you improve your business operations
For the success of any company's business operations, its processes should be effective. These processes need to drive efficiency, add flexibility to operations and bring agility to the business. Business Process Management, as both a software solution and a discipline, helps deliver business efficiency, flexibility and agility while managing complexity,...
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Building Your Sender Reputation In Four Steps
Having trouble reaching your customers' inboxes? You might have a poor sender reputation. Similar to a credit score, sender reputations reflect how good or bad your sending habits are If your reputation is lower than you'd like just follow these 4 easy steps to start hitting the inbox.
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The Dangers of not Addressing the Data Retention Issue
As customer data storage requirements have risen exponentially, data and document retention and how long data should be stored for is becoming increasingly important. Not only must organisations ensure that they adhere to the wide-ranging legal requirements for retention but they should also have appropriate data retention policies so as...
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Research: IaaS impact on data center design and staffing (UK)
The importance of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is evident in the growing number of companies either already implementing, or planning to implement. Underscoring the strength of IaaS is the responses gathered in each of the last two Tech Pro Research surveys on the topic. The first, in April, detailed...
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TechRepublic Resource Guide: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
As more and more data is being created and converted to digital streams, businesses need a way to consolidate and harness all of it. That's where a data warehouse comes in. Once they've got all of that data connected, they need a way to tap into it for powerful reporting...
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Betting on the future with Unified Communications
This white paper from Frost & Sullivan covers how unified communications (UC) technologies can help support communications and collaboration among distributed workers, and suggests innovative ways businesses and managers can use UC to improve processes and drive the bottom line.
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Video: HP Discover Networking Testimonials
How are customers using HP Networking solutions to address their enterprise business needs? Find out in this video as customers talk about the value of working with HP.
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Monster Tool Spends Fewer than Five Minutes a Day on Backup Tasks
Monster Tool is a leading manufacturer of solid carbide cutting tools, including drills, endmills, reamers and burrs. The company has about 100 employees, and its distribution centers across the U.S. ship all over North America. Monster Tool's IT environment included Windows, Mac, Linux and VMware. Yet only a fraction of...
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Wireless LAN ClientMatch Technology
Ensuring that all wireless network clients get the service levels they need is a major challenge -- especially when smartphones, tablets and other clients control their own connectivity and roaming decisions. ClientMatch™ technology is an RF management technology that puts the WLAN infrastructure in control of client connectivity and roaming....
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The Top Five Reasons Why Customers Deploy a Flash 1st Strategy on EMC VNX Storage
As more organizations virtualize their IT environments, they're finding modern storage systems are the best fit for these next-generation setups. And, as more admins deploy EMC VNX unified storage, Flash technologies are becoming an attractive option for ensuring optimal performance for both highly active and less active data. In...
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Top 6 Project Breakdowns (and How to Fix Them)
Project management is either one of those things that you are really good at, and you can breeze right through without any issues, or it's something that drives you crazy. Every business owner has experienced some form of project failure, but why? Study the top reasons that projects fail to...
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Rackspace SharePoint Migrations
Most enterprise IT organizations are already familiar with the basic arguments in favor of using a hosted model. They understand that leveraging a service provider allows them to minimize capital investments in hardware and IT infrastructure support, reaping the benefits of an OPEX expense model. A hosted model also reduces...
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HR In The Cloud Whitepaper
The human resources function is undergoing a fundamental transformation. It's clear the old ways of doing business won't work in the new modern global economy. Today, your business needs answers faster and is looking to HR as the workforce authority.
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Internet of Things: Energy Use Case
An estimated 70% of the energy grid is more than 30 years old, making it prone to stress and failure.
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Reaping the Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards
Traditional BI solutions face many obstacles and limitations. However, the need for timely and succinct business intelligence (BI) continues to grow. As a result, BI has continued to evolve - creating a next generation of BI. This white paper explores how organizations are demanding more integrated and flexible business intelligence...
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Best Practices for a BI & Analytics Strategy
At a time of great economic volatility, there has been a significant decrease in the ability of decision makers at all levels to rely effectively on only experience or intuition to make decisions. The demand to respond faster, with greater insight into ongoing internal and external events based on facts,...
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Managing the Total Cost of Ownership of Business Intelligence
Take a close look at the factors that drive total cost of ownership (TCO) for business intelligence. Learn how your organization can position itself to deliver a cost-effective business intelligence solution that meets your user community's thirst for information, addresses new data sources, and offers the lowest TCO.
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Social Business Discovery: Optimising Decision Making
BI (business intelligence) software has long been touted as the route to insight and better business decisions. But powerful business insight comes not just from data, and not just from what one person sees and thinks. It comes from the combination of varied viewpoints and the conclusions and compromises people...
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Business Discovery: Powerful, User-Driven BI
The promise of business intelligence (BI) software is to enable decision makers at all levels in an organization to leverage data for business advantage - to explore data, draw insights and meaningful conclusions, and make better decisions. Traditional BI solutions have delivered reliable, operational data tied to pre-defined, static reports...
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Managing Variability and Evolution of Business Document Models
The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and e-Business (UN/CEFACT) standardizes business documents for electronic data interchange. Their approaches towards UN/EDIFACT and XML have later been followed by a conceptual modeling approach called Core Components (CC). Having used this approach for four years in practice, it became evident that the...
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5 Best Practices for Mobile Business Intelligence
Considering rolling out mobile business intelligence? The benefits are obvious: get data where decisions are made and in the hands of people who need it. Spread business intelligence more widely throughout your organization and create a culture of data-driven decision making. But going mobile doesn't just happen. There are fundamental...
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Why Business Analytics in the Cloud?
Many businesses today are re-evaluating their infrastructure so they can move faster and be more flexible. Adoption of cloud services, from Salesforce to Workday to Google Analytics, has been massive. But is it right for business analytics? And is it right for your business? What are the factors you should...
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Understanding Avaya IP Office Short Codes
This white paper provides a road map to understanding the programming and use of short codes in an Avaya IP Office system. It is based primarily on the codes used with the IPO 8.1 U-Law system with the Essential, Preferred, or Advanced Edition system licenses.
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A Unified Model for Describing a Project Plan
This paper proposes a unifying model for project plans. A distinction will be made between the outputs of project planning and the project plan itself. The significance of this distinction is to allow projects of all types to be described at a high level, in a common language, regardless of...
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Mary E. Rausch, M.D. is the Director of the Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and Fertility Preservation Programs. Additionally, Dr. Rausch specializes in polycystic ovary syndrome and ectopic pregnancy.
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After receiving her undergraduate degree from Brown University and her medical degree from Columbia University, Dr. Rausch completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Following her residency, Dr. Rausch went on to receive her fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Rausch is the recipient of numerous awards including the Resident Research Award at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and the Society for Gynecologic Investigation President's Presenter Award. Dr. Rausch is a member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, The Endocrine Society, and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
In addition to seeing patients in our main Manhasset office, Dr. Rausch also sees patients for consultations, evaluations and monitoring at our offices in Forest Hills and in Huntington Hospital.


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Today on the Fab Four at Four, I'm playing your favorite Beatles hits from before the Invasion!
The Beatles regularly performed at different clubs in Hamburg, West Germany, between August 1960 and December 1962; a chapter in the group's history which honed their performance skills and widened their reputation.
Portions of their final performances were taped with a portable recorder and released on West Germany's Bellaphon label in 1977 as The Beatles: Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962, and subsequently re-released in various formats and titles.


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New Path 2.0 automatically chronicles, shares your life
The year-old semi-social network app Path is getting a major update that adds scary but interesting automatic life-tracking features, as well the capability--finally--to share Path items with larger social networks.
A refresher: Path was designed as a mobile service that lets you share what's important in your life with only your closest friends. It's not a wide-open social network like Facebook, nor a broadcast platform like Twitter. It's designed to keep you in touch with your family and your close, intimate friends only.
Path now makes that even easier and, in my opinion, more enjoyable. The new … Read more