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Monsoonal weather patterns have moved into the Grand Canyon area decreasing fire danger. As a result, on Tuesday, July 8 at 8 a.m. fire managers lifted fire restrictions within Grand Canyon National Park. More »
Two Bats Collected in the Park Have Tested Positive for Rabies
One on the North Kaibab Trail and the other at Tusayan Ruin/Museum. Rabies can be prevented if appropriate medical care is given following an exposure. Any persons having physical contact with bats in Grand Canyon National Park, please follow this link. More »
Herbicide to be applied along railway within Grand Canyon National Park
Contact: Kirby Shedlowski, 928-638-7958
Contact: Lori Makarick, 928-638-7455
Grand Canyon, Ariz. – On Thursday, February 13th, Grand Canyon Railway, in consultation with the National Park Service (NPS), will be applying herbicide along their railroad tracks including those within Grand Canyon National Park. The purpose of this application is to inhibit the growth of vegetation adjacent to the railroad tracks, lowering the risk of train wheel sparks igniting a fire. Once the treatment is completed, this area will also act as a fire break for any fires originating elsewhere in the park.
In addition to reducing fire hazards, this herbicide application will aid in the battle against invasive plant species in the park. The railroad tracks create an environment of disturbance that encourages the spread of invasive plants. Currently, more than 30 non-native species are found in close proximity to the railroad tracks. This treatment will not only help reduce the number of invasive plants found in the area, but will also help reduce the transportation of seeds and plant parts that spread these species.
The herbicides being used for this project are ThrottleTM and Landmark®, which are broad spectrum herbicides. These herbicides work through inhibiting plant specific enzymes necessary for healthy plant growth. These herbicides will kill live vegetation, will break down quickly once applied, and will provide pre-emergence control. ThrottleTM and Landmark® are rated low in toxicity.
Weather permitting, the railroad tracks within the park will be treated on either February 12th or 13th using a 16-foot boom sprayer. The project will be paid for and implemented by Grand Canyon Railway. Pedestrian areas near the tracks will be appropriately signed to notify residents and visitors of the herbicide application.
In spring of 2009, an Environmental Assessment (EA) was prepared for implementation of the park's Exotic Plant Management Plan. A Finding of No Significant Impact was signed by the Regional Director in July of 2009. The EA identifies the need to use an integrated approach to exotic plant management, which includes the use of herbicides. It also stresses the necessity for collaboration such as this joint effort between the NPS and Grand Canyon Railway.
For more information, please contact Lori Makarick, Vegetation Program Manager, at 928-638-7455 or Ken Stephenson with Grand Canyon Railroad at 928-635-5359.
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April 3, 2012 - 1:37 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says if President Ronald Reagan was running for president now, he "could not get through a Republican primary today."
Obama said during a question-and-answer session with newspaper editors on Tuesday that Reagan was forced to raise taxes and spending cuts to deal with high deficits during his presidency in the 1980s.
The president says if Reagan were running today, he couldn't emerge from the current Republican primary contest led by Mitt Romney.
Obama is criticizing Republican presidential candidates who were not willing to raise taxes in order to deal with high federal budget deficits.
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2012-13 Revised Summer Internship Proposal Form
How many hours do I have to work to get a credit?
Typically a valid internship will include 160 hours of service to receive one course credit. Faculty supervisors may also require additional work in order to award academic credit, such as a journal or final project.
Will a summer internship help my GPA?
No. Internships are graded credit/no credit only. They do not affect your GPA, but can earn a credit toward graduation or your major requirements.
What happened to that vacation block thing?
Most students will benefit from paying $400 to post the course to their transcript in the summer. If students desire, for this summer only, students can still choose to post a summer internship to a vacation block in the 2011-2012 or 2012-2013 academic year.
Can I start in May?
No, internships must start after Block 9 and be completed by August 15.
Can I get credit for an internship I've already done or just started?
No. Internship credit is not awarded retroactively.
Can I still do an internship during the year?
Sure. That is still included in your regular tuition cost, if you choose to use a block in this way.
Are there any prerequisites?
Students must have completed at least 8 course credits and find a faculty sponsor.
How much do they cost?
$400, or about $130 a credit hour. It's a steal.
Can I add it to my bill?
No. Payment for the Summer Internship must be paid to Business Services prior to submitting the registration proposal to the Registrar's Office.
Can I get Financial Aid?
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Fill out the proposal form, get the required signatures, make your payment, and turn it in to the Registrar's Office before the internship begins.


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In 2013, Justin Timberlake put on his "Suit & Tie," and now he's ended the year at the top of GQ magazine's list of the "25 Most Stylish Men of 2013."
Throughout most of the year, Justin teamed with designer Tom Ford to supply him with a custom wardrobe he wore while promoting his two albums, and while thrilling fans during his fall headlining tour. He also donned sportswear from Alexander Wang and Neil Barrett, and rocked what GQ called "the year's best haircut." "2013 was the year Justin Timberlake dominated the style game," the magazine states.
Also making the list was Pharrell Williams at #2, Kanye West at #7, and, at #18, One Direction 's Zayn Malik , the only member of the group to be included. Why him? GQ explains that while the whole group is fashionable, it's "Malik's understated style that makes him stand out. The Brit is no stranger to style moves like wearing a turtleneck under a double-breasted blazer, or pairing his beloved black leather motorcycle jacket with everything, without ever appearing to try too hard."
Coming in at #19 is another boy band member -- well, ex-member. Joe Jonas gets props for his ability to "ace any occasion's dress code and take chances, with of-the-moment looks like patterned shirts and colored suits."
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The goal of TechShop is to provide members with every conceivable tool and machine that they would need to build, hack, fix or create just about any kind of project. Here is a list of the core tools and equipment are available to you as a TechShop member:
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Even equipped with official software, let alone updated beta code, the $179 MetaWatch Strata Stealth acts like a work in progress.
Much like the Pebble, the MetaWatch Strata is a Kickstarter project that connects with your iPhone or Android handset and alerts you to calls, e-mails, and messages.
Hope you didn't have other plans for your money this weekend.
The former designer at Vertu is giving Meta's new watch a facelift to climb to the top of the smartwatch fashion mountain.
Sonostar shows off a sleek new smartwatch, or at least a prototype of one, at CTIA 2013. To be sold for $179, the gadget connects to Android smartphones to display alerts on its curved e-ink screen.
My wrist has only so much room, and the Fitbit Force has won the shoving match against the mighty Galaxy Gear.
Is it possible that the classic wrist-worn Nano could still outclass the latest wearable tech on looks alone? Actually, it certainly feels like it.
We look at the latest smartwatches and explain how they all could get better.
The challenge for Apple and others trying to crack the code on wearables is to produce an appealing device for a mass market that doesn't need a watch to tell time and doesn't want to get all wound up by an overly complicated gadget.
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D.C. police are investigating the deaths of two men found dead below a Pennsylvania Avenue bridge in Anacostia.
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An overnight shooting in the District that started out as a police chase has sent three people to the hospital.
DC man charged in 2009 shooting death
D.C. police have charged a man with first-degree murder in a shooting in southeast in 2009.
More eyes on the street: D.C. adds 130 enforcement cameras
A new breed of enforcement camera is coming online in D.C. this weekend. More than 130 new cameras will target more than speeding but cross walks, intersection blockers and even commercial vehicle violations.
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Police are searching for two suspects wanted in connection with a sexual assault in Northeast D.C. last week.
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One month later, D.C. police are still not saying much about a bizarre traffic stop near Eastern Market that resulted in six tickets and $905 in fines, other than that the department will only investigate the incident if the driver files a complaint against the officer.
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Award-winning Restaurants in 26 States and Washington, D.C.; California, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey Restaurants Make Strongest Showings
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of the local restaurants diners return to time and again, OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN), the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations, is pleased to honor the 2014 Diners' Choice Award winners for the Top 100 Best Neighborhood Gem Restaurants in America. These awards reflect the combined opinions of more than 5 million restaurant reviews submitted by verified OpenTable diners for more than 19,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Highlighting eateries that contribute to the character of their neighborhoods, the complete list includes award winners in more than half the states in the nation and Washington, D.C., including Lucia's Restaurant and Wine Bar in Minneapolis, Red Gravy in Brooklyn, and The Yellow Porch in Nashville. California has 24 winning restaurants sprinkled throughout the state, followed by New York with 10, and New Jersey and Pennsylvania with six each. Both Florida and Georgia have five honorees, while Massachusetts and Texas each boast four. Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Tennessee, Washington, and Washington, D.C., all have three winners, and the states of North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, and South Carolina have two apiece. Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Utah are also represented.
Although American fare is the most popular cuisine, Italian cuisine was a close second, with 25 restaurants specializing in dishes inspired by Lo Stivale, or The Boot. French fare is popular as well, as are seafood and southern menus.
"The winning restaurants on this list are in many ways the heart and soul of their neighborhoods, offering much more than delicious meals," says Caroline Potter, OpenTable Chief Dining Officer. "They provide a place that inspires a real sense of community and pride, making local area foodies feel right at home, night after night."
The Diners' Choice Awards for the Top 100 Best Neighborhood Gem Restaurants in America are generated from more than 5 million restaurant reviews collected from verified OpenTable diners between June 1, 2013, and May 31, 2014. All restaurants with a minimum "overall" score and number of qualifying reviews were included for consideration. Qualifying restaurants were then scored and sorted according to the percentage of qualifying reviews for which "neighborhood gem" was selected as a special feature.
Based on this methodology, the following restaurants, listed in alphabetical order, comprise the Top 100 Neighborhood Gem Restaurants in America according to OpenTable diners. The complete list may also be viewed at http://www.opentable.com/m/best-neighborhood-gem-restaurants-in-america/.
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Originally launched in November 2008, the OpenTable Reviews program helps diners find restaurants that best fit their dining occasions. Diners who recently honored an OpenTable reservation are invited via email to submit restaurant feedback using an online form. Visitors to OpenTable can access reviews for thousands of OpenTable restaurant partners across the United States, Canada, Germany and the UK. The OpenTable Reviews program has generated more than 25 million restaurant reviews by verified diners, establishing OpenTable as one of the largest and most trusted sources for restaurant reviews.
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OpenTable is the world's leading provider of online restaurant reservations, seating more than 15 million diners per month via online bookings across more than 31,000 restaurants. The OpenTable network connects restaurants and diners, helping diners discover and book the perfect table and helping restaurants deliver personalized hospitality to keep guests coming back. The OpenTable service enables diners to see which restaurants have available tables, select a restaurant based on verified diner reviews, menus, and other helpful information, and easily book a reservation. In addition to the company's website and mobile apps, OpenTable powers online reservations for nearly 600 partners, including many of the Internet's most popular global and local brands. For restaurants, the OpenTable hospitality solutions enable them to manage their reservation book, streamline their operations, and enhance their service levels. Since its inception in 1998, OpenTable has seated more than 620 million diners around the world. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and the OpenTable service is available throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the UK. More information is available on http://www.opentable.com.
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GameTap to Offer Classic Interplay TitlesGameTap today announced an expanded partnership with Interplay to make several of the company's titles such as Fallout, MDK and Descent available via numerous digital distribution channels.
As part of the agreement, GameTap will feature the Interplay titles in its subscription-based play service, ad-supported website and sold directly via GameTap's online digital download store.
"This licensing deal is a good example of how Interplay is leveraging its library of intellectual properties," said Interplay CEO Herve Caen. "The company will continue to either reinvent some of those properties by developing them into new versions or sequels, or by partnering with an existing leader like GameTap, where the original titles can live on."
Interplay recently announced that it was planning sequels to a number of its franchises with as Earthworm Jim and MDK. The struggling studio was revived earlier last year by Bethesda's outright purchase of the Fallout franchise.


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Suddenly, it seems as if all of South Florida has fallen under the spell of flamenco. Whether its another edition of Flamenco Festival Miami at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts or a tablao in a Calle Ocho restaurant, theres been plenty of taconeo and zapateado taking place. With much more to come.
For choreographer, dancer and instructor Adriana Nassiff, who runs the Dancing in XS studio in Doral, there are several possible factors to account for the booming interest in flamenco and Spanish dance in South Florida.
The Flamenco Festival from Spain started to come to the States, to cities like Washington and New York, and then to Miami. This introduced us to some of the biggest names, says the Colombia-born Nassiff of the annual U.S. fest that began in 2001.
Then, with the recent migration of Venezuelans and other Latin Americans who have brought their love and passion for flamenco to Miami, the studios and schools here have had to satisfy the demand, continues Nassiff, a flamenco dancer for most of her 35 years. Her flamenco classes, she adds, are full.
Two of the art forms most acclaimed artists will appear together on Saturday. The Spanish flamenco pianist, composer and cantaor Diego Amador, famous for his fusion of flamenco music and jazz, has joined forces with countryman and flamenco dance superstar Joaquín Cortés in Flamenco Jazz Tribute, which marks the start of Amadors concert tour promoting his latest album, Diego Amador Live in Paris: Flamenco Jazz Tribute.
In Miami, Spanish and English are spoken, and that made it attractive. Besides, it is a city of great quality and culture, says the self-taught Amador, 40, from Madrid.
I was in Miami many years ago with another project, but this will be my first time as a solo artist. I am glad theres this flamenco fever in Miami right now. Joaquín and I cant wait to be there to bring our experience to the audience.
An audience that will be able to witness not your abuelos flamenco, but Amadors innovative take on jazz, which he grew up loving passionately, much to the surprise of the other musicians in his family, and his sensual flamenco cante (singing), and piano playing (he has described himself as a pianist who plays the piano as a guitar).
Miamis passion for flamenco began with the first generation of Cuban immigrants and has continued with more recent arrivals from the island, says Paola Escobar, who studied flamenco in Spain, danced flamenco in Cuba, opened a studio in her native Colombia and then moved to Miami in 2005.
Some 15 years after having lived in Havana, I find many of the dancers I worked with back then are here now, says Escobar, who dances with several flamenco groups, including veteran Paco Fontas Siempre Flamenco. They all love flamenco. Its in their genes.
The enthusiasm and understanding for flamenco here helps artists who, like Amador, are experimenting with tradition.
Guitar player and composer José Luis Rodríguez, who hails from Huelva and has made Miami home since 2011, also likes to show through his work that flamenco can keep up with the times without losing its classical essence.
Rodríguez, 46, has combined flamenco and Afro-Cuban music; worked with electro-acoustic sounds; and collaborated on a project of flamenco and Sephardic music.
When I got to the States, I found that there was this idea, a little bit stereotypical, about the flamenco guitar, says Rodríguez, Because there had been this gap, between the 1980s, when all these flamenco artists were here [like Cacharrito de Málaga and Paco Fonta], and now. During the time when Spain was prospering, many of these artists returned home. But this left an impression of flamenco that was dated.
As a result, what he does, contemporary flamenco, he calls nu flamenco.
Flamenco is usually associated with castanets and polka dots, a very typical type of flamenco, which is not what I do, adds the musician. I compose music through flamenco.


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Well, summer is almost here! Unfortunately, this author will still be dislocated from his family on the other side of the globe so I'll miss all the family summer fun. In our household it is best to keep the kids busy in as many activities as humanly possible for the couple months they end the school year. This is best not only for everyone's sanity, but for the safety of all involved as well (I'm just kidding…maybe :). Of course there is ESY because my wife is a stern negotiator for the educational benefits of our boys, and there is the myriad of summer camps and programs. Honestly, I have lost count of all the different and fun things that the boys will be participating in. I know there is Zoo camp, Space camp, a trip to Michigan for my 7 year old (all by himself on a plane nonetheless!) to stay with his Aunt Heather for a few days while he attends camp up there, then there are the fun activities for Mommy and sun like canoeing with the manatees and certainly I am probably missing YMCA programs and the list of things their private ABA provider will be doing with them in the weeks ahead.
Keeping your auttie engaged is very important. There is normal rhythm achieved during the school year that can be disrupted for them if they are not actively engaged in learning, behavior or social opportunities throughout the summer. There are many resources available in most communities for those with special needs. Check into them. I know my boys have some of the best times in the summer from the great schedule that Mommy works hard to create for them. Of course she has to play taxi driver for most of the summer, but that is better than locking them in the house or even the backyard for hours on end with limited engagement or opportunities for growth. Plus, parents need to get a break from what can only call 'madness' at times in the household. My wife is a saint when it comes to the patience, love and care she provides our three boys, but even saints have their limits. And when there is an opportunity to get away, even if for a brief moment, stress builds and can become a pressure cooker for all involved. Time away is the best cure. And that is ok. A parent should never feel guilty for wanting to have time, respite, away from their special needs children. That is the time ti re-energize, focus, get yourself centered and get back into the game – refreshed!
Make sure you call your local YMCA, contact your school and organizations that support special needs kids in your community to find out what programs you can take advantage of in the area for yours and your child's benefit. Many are low cost and for some there are scholarship opportunities funded my non-profit agencies to pay for your child. Many times these scholarships go unused. Sometimes all it takes is to apply and your child is selected!
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Middlesbrough is located near the mouth of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, approximately 252 miles north of London and 38 miles south of Newcastle.
The town has a population of around 144,800. Administratively it is within the Borough of Middlesbrough which covers an area of approximately 54 sq kms.
It is an industrial town formerly renowned for its iron industry and docks which grew rapidly during the 19th-century. Now a thriving commercial and retail centre with good leisure and entertainment facilities, it is also a university city. Its most notable landmark is the Transporter Bridge which spans the river, opened in 1911 it is one of only two remaining in Britain.
The town's history dates from 686 when a monastic cell was consecrated by St Cuthbert at the request of St Hilda, Abbess of Whitby. The church was maintained by 12 Benedictine monks until the time of the dissolution of the monasteries during the 16th century. The town's development came during the latter half of the 19th century, firstly as a port for coal, and then with the discovery of ironstone nearby. An iron foundry and rolling mill were built. In the space of a century, Middlesborough grew from just a handful of people to a town with a population on 90,000 by 1890, with Municipal Borough status. Amongst other notable bridges, the 1932 Sydney Harbour Bridge was designed and built here.
Historically the town's economy was based upon iron. Today, it is based on chemical, fertiliser, iron and steel production. There are also new design and media businesses, e-business and e-commerce. Recent entrepreneurial success stories: Green Tyre Company, McCoys Purple Onion restaurant, Brambles sandwiches, Psyche clothing and Bulkhaul International Haulage.
The name Middlesbrough has evolved from its earliest recorded form "Mydilsburgh"; the element 'burgh' denotes an ancient fort or settlement of pre-Saxon origin. The burgh may have included a monastic cell and was probably situated on the elevated land where the Victorian church of St Hildas (demolished in 1969) was later built. The 'Mydil' or middle could be either a person's name or a reference to Middlesbrough's location, half way between the great Christian centres of Durham and Whitby.
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Facebook is serious about getting pharma on board with social media.
You remember Facebook, right? The number one or two website in the US and the world? The place where people spend insane amounts of time playing games, posting photos, and chatting with their friends? I know you know of it, because I'm almost certain that you have a personal profile on it.
You may have wiped it from your professional memory because for the last few years, Facebook spent a lot more telling us that it wanted our business than actually learning what it was like doing business within pharma. They were playing B2B footsie, occasionally bending their very retail-oriented rules about commenting and interaction when a brand reallyreallyreally needed them to turn off comments (read: spent a lot of money buying ads on Facebook).
But you were probably right for writing the FB off as a place where pharma should fear to tread.
So it was surprising to see that Facebook has taken itself to the woodshed and returned a changed company. They really are serious about bring pharma into the fold, going so far as to put together a team of six full-time staffers dedicated to pharma. This team will teach any brand manager or agency willing to listen the lessons learned from the early adopters. They have regular newsletters describing new ways of targeting customers, building brand awareness and driving engagement. They will sit you down and walk you through a deck describing all the ways they can help you achieve your brand goals.
You might be interested in hearing that FB can reach hundreds of thousands of pharmacists, nurses and doctors (and based on numbers I've seen, assume 60-80% penetration). They can segment pretty well by specialty type, demographic-type, and geography.
They can also help you build a page that abides by your particular MLR needs. No longer is Facebook pretending all companies are the same: they are serious about getting pharma into social.
And that's great news. Except one small detail.
While I'm all for getting pharma to embrace the twenty-first century and admit what we all already know (everyone, including your doctor, your mother, your pharmacist, your nurse, your support group, your physical therapist, your KOL, and your pharma executive are all on social media and using it quite a bit), Facebook may have a bit of problem: clicks on their ads aren't all by people.
Someone has uncovered evidence that as much as 80% of ad clicks that businesses pay for on Facebook are by "bots." Now, in this world of indexing spiders and other crawling bots, we expect a few clicks on any ad to be worthless because they aren't being made by a person (good luck persuading a piece of software to ask their doctor about Humira). And it's safe to say that this traffic is about 1% of traffic we end up paying for. But 80% is outrageous.
It would be easy to say that this is how Facebook is artificially inflating click numbers to charge you more (and if last month's earnings report is any indicator, everyone in FB is aware of the value of charging clients money: Zuckerberg lost more than $420 million yesterday!), but there's no real proof. It's just as likely that bot-writers focus on their software on Facebook because that's where people are. However, it's not obvious what their motivation would be to fake-click on links.
As this story grows (and it will, as the "GM says FB ads aren't effective" story is still fresh in our minds), Facebook will have it's hands full managing the PR. They will need to prove 1) that it is not doing the fake-clicking and 2) that it is working towards eliminating the problem. Otherwise, all their hard work in building a targeting system we want to leverage will be almost worthless.
Provided it can fix both parts of the fake-click issue, Facebook will be well-positioned to become an effective pharma marketing partner.
If you haven't spent 60 seconds reading this article on how Google Fiber is the biggest thing BigG has done since Gmail, you probably should. Why? Because it underlines how important the next big disprupting to tech is going to be, even to (and maybe even especially to) pharma.
Tech specs: First there was dial up. Then there was DSL, which was about 10 times faster than dial-up. Then came modern cable internet (what most of us think of when we think of broadband) and that's like ten times faster than DSL. But we've been stuck at eking out a few more bits per second from cable for the last ten years. Fiber (meaning fiber optics)? Well, if I said it's going to be ten times faster than cable, I'd be lying. Because fiber is far faster than that.
In a world where we're all very very used to downloading massive files and streaming Netflix, why do we need more speed? Well, remember when you couldn't understand why you'd need more than a 486mHz processor to run Windows (to be fair, it was Windows 3.1)? Then came photo editing, and music downloading, and movie editing, and movie streaming.
There are new technologies on the horizon waiting for the bottle-neck of internet speed to get fixed. How will fiber everywhere change things?
Well, we're start with wifi everywhere. No more dial-up like speeds at the Startbucks because 3 dozen people are leeching on a single connection (and one is on a video chat — who does that?!) to a computer in your pocket (who's bottle-neck is also internet speeds via 4G). So that means any two people in America with two decent mobile devices can have a video chat pretty much anywhere with a high-res screen interface. Congrats, you just invented a way for a doctor to consult from anywhere: virtual office hours.
Or take EMR to the next level: the ability to collect patient data from anywhere. Not just from doctors, but a simple API would allow my health chart to collect data from my wifi scale, my Fitbit heartrate monitor, my ZEO sleep data, etc. Heck, just plug my Kinect and my doc can give me a pretty good physical… while i'm at home.
And pharma? As it starts to open up to being a health care partner instead of "just a pill-maker", it can interact with all its customers in real-time. Mobile phone apps can become pill-reminders and track that data, embedding it into the EMR.
But the real breakthrough will be in understanding Adverse Events. With so much data now being tracked and dumped into a central location, pharma will be able to see in weeks that there might be an unanticipated reaction with some real-world factor.
For example, clinical trials reveal that 0.05% of people who take your brand get nauseous. Your clinical trial won't give you enough data to see what other factor creates that condition. But four weeks after brand launch, you see that people in the real world reporting nausea have also been diagnosed with sleep apnea. A quick study can confirm the finding and that information is now added to the label.
Fiber brings everyone closer together, and that includes HCPs, patients and pharma.
You have a great eLearning program. No, really. I can see every dollar you spent on getting that KOL on film with a killer script that nails your message. The camera work and editing is spot-on. The coding work you did to build a custom interface is delightful. The website is fast, clearly laid out behind a login, and it even remembers which videos I've watched and where I left off last time. Excellent stuff. Kudos to your agency partners for putting it together. I bet you get great traffic, and that everyone involved got a nice pat on the back when it came time for their annual reviews.
There's just one problem. It might as well not exist on my phone.
This is unfortunate, because I get all my email on my phone, and you guys send me emails all the time. They practically beg me to click on the link and watch the video, but when I do, I get a big grey rectangle. Or an error message (which is funny, because I didn't do anything wrong). I wonder how much time and money you spent on that pretty video that is completely useless to me.
Suddenly I don't like your website anymore, mostly because it's built around encouraging me to watch a video I can't actually watch.
You've looked at your email metrics lately, right? You know that mobile devices account for anywhere from 40-60% of all email views, right*?
*[how do I know that? Because we have access to 29,000 Texas HCPs and we send them bi-monthly newsletters and that's what our email metrics say.]
Have you looked at your web metrics? In particular, the percentage of mobile traffic to your site, and how it has grown at a near-exponential rate for the past year? That means that all those technical decisions you made only 12 months ago are kinda worthless now. Can you see how desktop traffic stays around and watches your movie, just like you want them to, but that your mobile traffic is almost all gone a minute after they show up? I bet you can (and if you can't, I'm betting your web team can show you).
If you embrace the idea that mobile is here to stay (and if you're reading this on a tablet or phone, I think you do), you need to understand how people use these devices.
Allow me to direct your attention to a study [http://go.ooyala.com/wf-video-index-q3-2011.html] that shows that tablet and phone users are more than happy to watch a ten minute video on these portable devices. The small screen is no deterrent. In fact, sitting on a train or waiting in line might be the only time your target has a chance to watch your epic video.
The problem isn't just the file format. It's not too much trouble to re-render the movie into some format other than Flash, but any interactions you've built in need to account for the fact that on a tiny screen, buttons need to be big and easy to use. And a mobile user is more likely to need that pause button. The rule of thumb, as described here [http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1549] is that the smaller the screen, the smaller the slice of time the device works best at filling. When they start watching your movie in line at Costco, they may need to come back and finish it later. Not accommodating that behavior means that HCPs just won't come back.
We've also seen that emails opened by phones tend to get opened sooner. We think it's because most people carry their phones around with them everywhere and are happy to check their email dozens of times a day, rather than checking their email a few times a day at home on the laptop.
So are you ready to embrace mobile and walk the walk? Just don't walk while texting. Will you go full-mobile to get your eLearning video seen by more of your target list? Yes? That's what I figured.
How often is too often to send an e-mail to someone? What's the magic number of e-mails per day/week/month that defines the border between Helpful Communication and everyone's nemesis, Spamistan?
That magic number is three.
Oh, was that not enough information for you? Oh, okay, I'll spell it out.
First of all, let's all embrace the idea that one person's spam is another person's (um, your and my) job. Yes, there are messages that are always spam, like the ads for Canadian Viagra, Lovely Ladies Looking for Me (ladies, do you get spam about hunky guys who are new in town? Just wondering), Foreign Exchange Investing, and Re-growing Hair (huh… I just realized that a huge percentage of the spam we get is tangentially pharma related. I wonder what that means? Anyway…).
But if these messages are spam for everyone, no one would ever make a dime from those e-mails. And if there wasn't any money in it, no one would be spending money on sending them. Thus, there are people out there who believe that that pill is their long-lost answer to male pattern baldness. Even Viagra spam is someone's idea of an interesting message.
So there's no such thing as perfect spam (i.e. an e-mail message that has no value to anyone ever). That also means that there's no such thing as a message that's 100 percent interesting to everyone. Even e-mails I normally look forward to getting might feel like spam if I don't have the money to spend on them today.
So everything is on a "spam spectrum," as it were. A good marketer's job is to position all the elements of an e-mail campaign to make the message feel relevant and useful to all the recipients (relevant and useful being the opposite of spam). This involves designing the e-mail to be readable, even if images are turned off, removing as many spam-flagging words as possible, picking a time to send when it won't get lumped in with the rest of the early-morning or lunch-time spam waves, and doing the technical work to make sure e-mail servers don't think it's been mass-mailed from Russia.
And good marketers will make sure that the content of the e-mails is actually useful to as many people as possible.
I know it's a given that we think that HCPs need to be sent an e-mail every X days or else they'll forget about our brands. We think that if HCPs don't see our logo every day, they'll assume the brand is gone and never prescribe it again.
I'd like to challenge that assumption. I believe the if we sent an HCP five e-mails in a row, say, once a week or so, to explain the value of our brand, to show off its method of action, how it's different, when to prescribe it, its safety record, you know, the entirety of our brand's value proposition, we should stop and get out of our own way. Thereafter, just send news like new research, label changes, formulary changes, etc. Oh, and maybe an occasional "thanks." And that's it.
As we get closer to better managed and used CRM systems we should be able to do this very easily. But instead, we take a few dozen messages and send them out every X number of days like clockwork. It doesn't matter if there's something useful or relevant to HCPs for us to send, we just send it because our instinct says a semi-worthless message is better than no message at all.
Which brings us back to the magic number three. No, what I'm about to say has not yet been tested. I'm basing it off my experience and some basic sociology and psychology. So here it is.
When your audience gets the third message in a row that it doesn't see value and relevance in, they reach for the spam button.
Of course, the issue is that what's valuable to one person (male-pattern baldness cures) is worthless to many others. So a marketer's goal is to build more and better high-value e-mails, ones that don't invite spam complaints.
So you can see why I'm intrigued by the idea of short-course e-mail campaigns instead of year-long clockwork campaigns. By distilling your best content into a five-message run, you might have a more powerful campaign on your hands – one that actually costs less because you've stopped building and sending fluffy content that serves no purpose other than to count as a "touch" in your (okay, our) metrics. You're able to focus on building a handful of killer messages instead of thinking up ways to spread your messages out even further. Remember, Apple built the capping to remake itself as a home-computing expert with a single ad that only ran once. Quality, not quantity, will put your message into your audience's mind.
Even if you've heard the news from Facebook, you might not have seen the implications from a medical/pharma standpoint. Facebook announced a new tool called Facebook Timeline. Scrape away all the marketing copy and you get this: All that stuff you enter into Facebook (and Tumblr and Twitter and Foursquare and Flickr et al) aren't just quips and stories and complaints and jokes and whatnot, they are the ephemeral data about your life.
If your doctor said, "I'd like you to keep track of how many cups of coffee you have, how well you sleep, when you go to the gym, and the like" you'd hear, "Do a bunch of tedious homework." If your doctor said instead, "Hey, since you already track when you go to Starbucks and the gym on Foursquare, and complain about your lack of sleep on Facebook, can you keep doing that?" that sounds easy.
And now you can. Or rather, you already have.
Facebook, users already engage in countless acts of data entry, so it's possible that the data [life-tracking pioneer] Felton will be visualizing will already be available. Automated data gathering through smart phones—especially location data—provides even more data to mine.
-Christopher Mims at MIT's Technology Review
And that's where things are about to get interesting. We've been sitting on the precipice of some seriously cool ideas and tools for collecting, measuring and analyzing data, but they've all suffered from one of two problems: Lack of broad support or lack of fun. Facebook solved both those problems.
99% of the people who are interested in, and who would benefit from, collecting and analyzing their own data are stymied by the idea that it's a lot of work. At the end of the day, do you really want to rely on your memory? Or do you want to interrupt your life a dozen times a day and look like a dork doing it? Oh, you're updating one of your social media services? You're no less of a dork, but we all understand now.
And while Facebook is pitching Timeline as a way of easily keeping track of the birthday/breakup/roadtrip/concert parts of your life, people are already thinking about how to leverage all this info for medical and wellness tracking purposes.
Granted, this is Facebook we're talking about. These are not people who have a stellar track record when it comes to privacy. Or trustworthiness. Or professionalism. And while the intent behind all this work is clearly to be able to market products and services to us in a way that may actually be something close to interesting and useful, the opportunity exists for the data to be used in more meaningful ways… assuming Facebook can be persuaded to open the door to others, something it doesn't like to do.
So who's going to be the first to build a Facebook App to start to collect and use people's wellness data?
This post appeared as a guest-blog piece over at ePharmaSummitBlog. I'll be there once a week and save a copy of the posts here.
So I'm putting some research together for a project and something hit me. Something I probably saw, read, or even thought before but I felt the need to write it down this time just so I could say that I did.
Here it is: Social and Mobile could never have become so big without each other. They aren't so much conjoined twins as they are two separate organisms who support each other to the point of barely being able to survive without the other.
Facebook was cool until everyone had a smart phone and could document and comment wherever they were, at which point it was like flipping the switch and suddenly everyone was on Facebook. Remember when the big feature of Twitter was that you could post to it from a text (hence the 140 character limit) from any phone? And did you see that Facebook has spent the last few months making a FB client that could work on almost any non-smart phone? You don't spend those kind of resources unless you realize that mobile is vital to social, but that you've already cornered the smart-phone market.
And why else would mobile have grown so fast without social? To play more Angry Birds? We'd all have just bought GameBoys and PlayStation PSPs if it was about games. How does Apple impress you and get you to upgrade your iPhone? Twitter integration.
So from that we can ask two questions. One: why does pharma insist on separating the two? Two: Why would Google launch clients for G+ for Android and iPhones, but neglect to include iPads?
The reason pharma separates the two is obvious: Mobile is easier than social. There are so many rules (spoken and unspoken, written and unwritten) as to all the things pharma is not allowed to do in social, so it's pretty much turned its back on it to focus on mobile. I get it, but that's kinda like only exercising your right arm: neglecting your left arm isn't just neglecting your left bicep and tricep, it's really neglecting all the muscles between those arms: your chest and back which are the foundation to strong arms. It's a short-sighted strategy and will soon result in diminishing mobile returns.
For example, the FDA could start treating mobile a lot like it does social. Oh wait, it is! You've by now seen that the FDA will start looking at treating mobile apps like medical devices (which is actually not all that different from how it looks at social). You can read Dave Ormesher's post on it from this morning here.
Two: Why launch a Google+ iPhone app and not an iPad app? I wish I had an answer. I just know that I wasted five full minutes trying to find it in the app store to no avail (I even have a suspicion that they are blocking iPads from downloading the iPhone version).
Anyway, comment and twitter me. Tell me I'm wrong! @digital_pharma
Over at pharmastrategyblog.com, the question was raised: Should Pharma/Biotech even bother with social media?
"…social media is about engagement and sharing; dealing with the challenges of unhappy patients complaining publicly online via social media puts Pharma in an awkward spot regarding how to handle issues that may arise" (misspelling are mine, as they disabled copying on the site).
My response:
"So, you don't think installing transparency via social media would increase the public's ease with pharma and biotech?
"I would guess that the lack of transparency coupled with the fear that comes with any major medical issue is what causes the friction between the two groups. Which is terrible because pharma and biotech save lives. The public should see them as fire-fighters, not corporate behemoths."
It's going to be very hard to break through this wall together is many of us question the need to break through at all.
So here we are, on the verge of Canadian and American holiday weekends, each celebrating independence. Can those who can't see how such tools would benefit the industry overall speak up and explain their reticence?
Comments are open and I love to be twittered at @digital_pharma
So how do HCPs get new info on pharma? Almost half go to standard sources like books and sales reps or go to conferences and symposia (based on recent survey data). Of course, according to data presented last week at the CRM forum, 80% of HCPs carry around a smartphone for clinical use (25% carry a smart phone and an iPad: those white coats have huge pockets).
We could just say that there is overlap. No biggie. Some people with smart phones might think that the screen is a little small for certain things, or don't want to use it to read books. Sure. I get it.
But in the same survey at the top of the post, only a third of HCPs say they use the internet to get new info. Whatwhatwhat? 80% do clinical work on smart phones, but only 40% of them use the internet?
Either HCPs (like so much of America) don't really know when their device connects to the web, or that we are seeing the last vestiges of the old school v new school fight as it falls away.
Okay, speaking from a pharma marketing perspective here, there are really two kinds of HCPs. They aren't grouped Tech vs Non-Tech. They are grouped There Is A Way To Reach Them vs No Way. It's not "no-see" HCPs that are hard for me to deal with, it's HCPs who aren't interesting in anything new. They don't want new technology to use to prescribe or learn about new treatments. They don't need a new toy or new ideas. They know enough to do what they need to do and are done. They don't spend 8 hours a week after office hours learning new things (on average). They don't view eDetails, see reps, go to conferences or… anything. As a marketer, I have nothing to offer them.
So-called "no-see" docs aren't not interested in learning, they just need pharma to be better at being there with content when *they* need it. And we are. eDetails and FaceTime and virtual rep visits and HCP-facing sites and all the other ways we leave content for HCPs to use on their time are good. If we build content that assumes all these different ways of communicating, monitoring all channels in aggregate, making adjustments to each to create a successful communication strategy, we can stop worrying about if this channel or that channel is where they all are. Here's the answer: They're all over. Make good content and put it everywhere.
Vacation time! Have a great long weekend everyone!
Over on KevinMD.com, Dr. Eytan put together a quick survey of doctors on Sermo about HCP attitudes about social media. It would seem that HCPs are not interested in establishing an online presence in the social media world. In fact, as we have seen in other reported instances where HCPs attempt to stymie patients from even mentioning them on social networks, it would seem that there might be a real wall between HCPs and social media.
The first question is: are these cases outliers or are they indicative of a broader distaste for social and the web? I have no real numbers at my disposal (if you have them, share please!), but I can make some inferences. Since Dr. Eytan's survey isn't of HCPs overall, but of HCPs in Sermo, we can see that these people who don't care for social media are fairly savvy internet users overall in that they are on Sermo and participating. That puts them one step ahead of most (though recent hissy fits about "sudden realizations" that Sermo was collecting data for marketing purposes may indicate that Sermo users aren't completely internet savvy, I will assume for the sake of argument that if you are online and participating in an online community, you're in the top quarntile of HCPs).
If these HCPs, ones who know more about social media than most have such a poor attitude towards social media, we can assume that those with even less exposure have even lower attitudes towards social media.
Any disagreements with my logic thus far? Okay.
Add the fact that HCP's Facebook pages are better ranked than their professional pages on their practice websites and you've got an interesting shift building: HCPs who embrace social media will have a huge advantage against those who shun social media. Not only will Social-Savvy HCPs have better ranked pages online, when people try to make a decision about what doctor to choose, they are going to be more likely to pick the one they are the most familiar with, which would be the one that shows pics of the HCP fishing or hanging out with their dog or whatnot. Patients are going to pick Social-Savvy HCPs because they will presume that there will be a better connection with them and the HCP, if for no other reason that they can see who the HCP is and maybe (maybe!) even connect to them directly on social media sites (Can't you see an HCP's wall being full of posts from people who say things like "Thanks, Dr. XYZ! You made me feel so much better and that prescription really alleviated my issues! You're the best!"? Who isn't going to choose that HCP ten times out of ten versus the one with the single "professional in a lab coat with a stethoscope in an office" pic and a paragraph about what schools they went to?).
So let's call this an opportunity for revolution. The Social-Savvy HCP can step in and take a lot of business from those (and they seem to be legion) who would avoid connecting to social media in any way. This is going to be the new "way things are" very soon. Non-social-savvy HCPs should stop pretending it isn't about to happen and join the rest of teh world online.
I'm gonna stop the song and dance about social media and how pharma can use it, because we're all struggling with a mostly unspoken issue.
As marketers, we want to be able to get our message into every channel we can: we know that it's not the first commercial that causes people to buy, it's the tenth (or twentieth or hundred, depending), so we know being in every channel increases the odds of hitting that magic number of impressions (yes, it's not about sheer numbers. A clever message can cut the number of necessary exposures from a hundred to two. But that's not the point here).
But good marketers know that in order to work, our message needs to abide by the rules of the channel. Not much value in a TV commercial without video, a billboard that's only four inches tall, or a banner ad that doesn't link to anything, right? These are the rules of the medium, and marketers can bend them some times, but otherwise, they have to respect them.
So what are the rules of social media? Simple: people connect to people. That's what the Social in Social Media is referring to. You can make an emotional connection to a brand, yes, but you can't really talk to a brand and get a response. Plenty of people have an emotional connection to the Apple or Google brand (or Lexus or Audi or Skullcandy or Twilight or Twitter or or or…) but though I love Twitter and what it stands for, I don't expect the brand to have a conversation with me. I will never meet Twitter at a party. I will never run into Twitter walking its dog.
I can have a conversation with anyone on my friends list. I might see them at Starbucks. I can be social with them.
But since the world went social, marketers have followed, trying to bend the rules of social to work for brands. Old Spice Guy. The Most Interesting Man In The World. I, myself, once was @BuckyBadger for the University of Wisconsin. I could interact as a person pretending to be the brand, but its was very limiting.
Once, before the advent of good Twitter tools like HootSuite or TweetDeck, I accidentally porn-spammed a thousand people (porn owns every typo version of Facebook, fyi) and fixed it five minutes later. I made a joke about how hard it was to type with big fuzzy fingers. The joke was funny and no big deal, but should the brand be making jokes? Can Coke make a joke? No, the people behind it make jokes. So marketers have realized that the key to successful social media is to make it a person in charge of the brand presence. Give them the brand a persona and let it interact (FYI: Colonel Tribune is a great example of this).
Here's where thinks get super difficult. Pharma brands can't interact. They can't talk about what's off the label, they can't put themselves in a position where someone might report an adverse effect and they don't see it immediately. Pharma rules are very strict in this regard. They have to be, because we all know that without regulations, pharma would be involved in the process, tainting it with… something.
Here's where I suggest a different approach. I suggest we all embrace the idea that we're all in this together, that pharma has all the data on its product (or at least 95% of it) and it should share. In return, they get a seat at the table in talking about their product. Of course, they can't claim it solves problems it doesn't, but to treat them like they aren't a player is ludicrous. We need pharma to be involved as much as pharma needs a regulatory agency to keep everyone honest. This means that pharma can brand and talk about their brand like Coke or Disney does. They can be on Facebook and be given the benefit of the doubt that they can interact with people on it without breaking rules. That a big link that says "please send adverse effects here and not on our Facebook wall" is enough. That they can misspeak so long as they fix accidents with all due diligence just like Honda or Home Depot.
Making pharma transperant solves the social media problem, but it has other effects: it removes barriers between company and regulatory and customer. It fosters innovation. It builds smarter companies. If Google can, why can't Pfizer (who have very similar market capitalization)?
Lets focus less on building more walls and build more transparency in pharma.


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Before you arrive, please ensure you have downloaded:
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Lastly, please let us know as soon as you can if you cannot make the camp as there will be many developers who are keen to take your spot. Please let us know (via written email) at least 2 days in advance if you are unable to attend the camp or a £20 administration fee will be charged. Please respect the trainers and your fellow delegates by turning up if you have registered and committed.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at the Windows 8 Camp.
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We will not be developing applications for Windows 8. It is a mistake to crash two very different operating systems together using a Large Hadron Collider and hope that some of the fallout sticks. Windows 7 is a brilliant open platform for desktop and laptop. Windows 8 is great for tablets. But, they are two very different things and not what business users want. If feels clunky to combine them at best, and you're confusing the hell out of end users.
Finally, "Windows 8 Style UI"? No, no no.
@Gareth If you have tried it and this is your opinion, then fair enough, but if this is just an opinion based upon screenshots I'd strongly encourage you to come to a Windows 8 developer camp and use a device and see the capabilities of the platform first hand.
Even if you don't like what we have done personally, there is still a business opportunity to reach a new audience. You can take the skills you already have, apply them to this new discipline and unlock potential new customers and opportunities.
We run Windows 8 developer camps across the country, we list them all here: www.microsoft.com/.../appclinic.aspx
For those of us attending who have access to the final Windows 8/VS2012 should we be bringing those on the laptops, or the older RC versions?
Hi Mike,
Bring the latest version that you have with you. If you have access to the final version by all means bring that with you. :)


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Messages is really, really, really iChat
February 18th, 2012 at 7:35 pm by Dr. Drang
If you've installed the beta of the new Messages application, you know that it's a rebranded iChat with one new feature: messaging via Apple's iMessage protocol. What you may not realize is how shallow the rebranding is. It isn't even skin deep.
I tried to use LaunchBar this morning to start up a Messages session. I hit my LB hotkey, Control-Space, and typed "mess," figuring that Messages would be one of the top hits and that by choosing it from the list, I would teach LaunchBar to select it first. But Messages wasn't near the top of the list; it wasn't in the list at all.
I assumed that LaunchBar hadn't indexed the Applications folder since I installed Messages (even though I have it set up to index every time the contents of the folder changes), so I told it to reindex and tried to launch Messages via "mess" again. Still not in the hit list.
So then I hit the LB hot key and typed "chat." iChat appeared at the top of the list, which is funny, because there's no iChat in my Applications folder anymore. When I hit the Return key to launch iChat, Messages started up.
LaunchBar's index for Applications shows iChat, but not Messages.
The Finder shows Messages, but not iChat.
But you'll notice that Messages is where iChat used to be in the Finder. I
have had the Applications folder sorted by name and Messages sits between iCal and iDVD. Doing a Get Info on Messages reveals this:
Note that Messages' Name & Extension is iChat.app.
Update 2/18/12
I thought I'd done a Clean Up By Name just before taking the Finder window screenshot, but I was wrong. If you do a Clean Up By Name after installing Messages, it shows up in the Ms, just as you'd expect.
Thanks to David Dixon for pointing out my error.
It gets better. Open Terminal and list all the files and folders in
/Applications that start with "Me."
$ ls -d /Applications/Me*
ls: /Applications/Me*: No such file or directory
What about files and folders that start with "iC"?
$ ls -d /Applications/iC*
/Applications/iCal.app /Applications/iChat.app
So there really isn't a Messages.app. It's still iChat.app but with some magic causing the Finder to show it as Messages. It may be that the magic is in the Bundle name entry in the Info.plist file in
One last thing: All your old AIM and other instant message settings were in Messages because it reads your iChat settings' files in the Preferences folder.
$ ls -d ~/Library/Preferences/*iChat*
Why did Apple choose to do it this way? My guess is that Apple wanted Messages to inherit all your old iChat settings so you wouldn't have to redo everything. Also, because Messages is in beta, Apple wanted you to have an easy way to uninstall Messages and go back to iChat as if you never left. I'm not sure this shallow rebranding was the best way to achieve these goals, but it does seem minimally disruptive. Unfortunately, one thing it does disrupt, LaunchBar's indexing of applications, happens to be something I find useful. To get around the problem, I made an alias of Messages, made sure it was really named Messages, and tried to get LaunchBar to index it—that didn't work, either. I'm told that Alfred will launch Messages under either the Messages or the iChat name.
Helping me via Twitter in this fun, if unproductive, exercise in Mac spelunking were h1ro, Than Tibbetts, Ryan Irelan, David G, Matt Foster, David Dixon, Clark Goble, and Matthew McVickar.
Update 2/20/12
There are some LaunchBar workarounds if you don't want to keep typing "chat" to launch Messages.
Daniel Doron pointed out on Twitter that you can rename LaunchBar's index entries by simply double-clicking and typing in a new name.
I haven't done that, but I have followed Doug's advice in the comments and assigned an abbreviation by bringing up iChat in the LaunchBar selector and typing ⌥⌘A to set a new abbreviation.
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Alex Chan says:
The branding seems a little deeper if you're using the beta on Mountain Lion, but trivially so. It shows up in the correct alphabetical order in Finder, and Info.plist calls it "Messages.app". Alfred only finds it for Messages, not iChat. However, all the preference files still refer to iChat.
The other sign I noticed was the name of the chat logs folder. It's ~/Documents/iChats. While not a direct link (they could reasonably be called iChats if the original app wasn't called that), I suspect it is a holdover from the old app. (What was this folder called in the original?)
Carl says:
I assume this is being done using the localization tools. My system is set to Japanese, so iChat.app shows up as "メッセージ" (=Messages), just like how Dictionary.app shows up as 辞書. In general, any folder in OS X can be given a display name that's different from its name on the disk if you use the right combination of dot-files.
Dr. Drang says:
Alex, see the update about alphabetical ordering. I had my timing wrong.
Carl, localization does seem like the tool Apple would use. Thanks for pointing that out.
Doug says:
I'm sure you probably figured this out already, but the easiest way to fix this in LaunchBar is to assign an abbreviation to iChat in Launchbar (Opt-Cmd-A). I did that and made "mess" the abbreviation to iChat. Now it shows up if I type "ichat" or if I type "mess."
Rhys says:
Interesting, Alfred does index it as 'Messages' but the caption still shows the location to be '/Application/iChat.app'. Screenshot for reference http://cl.ly/EKlA
Dr. Drang says:
Actually, Doug, I'd forgotten how to force an abbreviation onto LaunchBar. Thanks for saving me the time to search for it.
Daniel says:
Carl got the answer, in Alfred it behaves just like any other localized application, accessible by both the real name and the localized one, while always showing the actual path below. For me that means that "Messages" doesn't work in Alfred but "iChat" and "Meddelanden" (Swedish)
Doesn't LaunchBar index localized application, file and folder names? A must for me.
Zev Eisenberg says:
I asked @launchbar about this on twitter, and they say they're working on it: https://twitter.com/launchbar/statuses/170560796701634560
PatatoOor says:
In Mountain Lion when you look for "Mess", Finder finds Messages.app
Joshua says:
You performed a search with a 3rd party app. If you wanted to be accurate you would've used Spotlight. I'm on 10.7.3 and searched "mess" with spotlight. The appropriate app came Messages up. Spotlight search for iChat brought up the archived folders. Also: 1. It's in beta. 2. Apple.com "Messages does everything iChat does. And with iMessages, it does even more." <— It's quite obvious it's iChat rebranded…aka a beta. 3. "Download Messages Beta and get a taste of what's coming in OS X Mountain Lion." says Apple. That said get a "taste" means this is still beta. 4. It's in beta (did I say that?) meaning its not completely feature filled, and Apple may still take away some existing features.
Dr. Drang says:
Jesus, Joshua, you sure are touchy. And a careless reader.
Than says:
On my 10.7.3, Messages is no where to be found: http://than.to/R42u & http://than.to/Q76S
Old index maybe? Sure, but that's besides the point.
And it was a little jarring to reflexively hit CMD-1 and see the old, familiar iChat buddies list pop up.
NotTellinYou says:
Really? This is a problem, why? This is news, why? It's pretty clear looking at the menus it's an improved rebranded iChat. But I'm feeling so what? iChat has been great and Apple's expanding its capabilities while changing the name to better reflect that. Big deal. FileMaker went from FileMaker 4 to FileMaker Pro 1.0 but could just as easily been FileMaker 5! On the iOS platform, the one with more users, the app is called Messages…so why not leverage that on OS X? I really think its funny you're all about how you've discovered some fast one or slight of hand.
NotTellinYou says:
BTW! Tip for ya! In Mountain Lion, iCal becomes Calendar, but it's still iCal under the covers. Shhhhh! Wink…wink…nudge…nudge!
elasticthreads says:
You can run the following Applescript to launch Messages/iChat:
do shell script "/Applications/iChat.app/Contents/MacOS/iChat"
of courses you can use the string between quotes as just a bash/shell script also.
I don't use LaunchBar, but I assume you could save either script as "Messages.scpt" and teach LaunchBar to use that when you type "mess…"
should temporarily fix the glitch
Dr. Drang says:
NotTellinYou should get together with Joshua to form a book club. They can discuss Mark Twain's support of slavery in Huckleberry Finn.
Carl says:
Haha, sorry the comments on this post are so bad Dr. D. I wonder what brought the trolls out… Is any mild implicit criticism of Apple beyond the pale?
For the record, Spotlight will search by real filename or display name, so it brings up Messages for me when I type "ichat" or "メッセージ but not "Messages."
The Swedish name for Messages sounds the coolest. Meddelanden!
Zev Eisenberg says:
LaunchBar has released a nightly build that now shows Messages by its new name. http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/download.html or enable Nightly builds in LaunchBar auto-update preferences.


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Paw Prints: Writings of the maddog
For reasons that I will never quite understand, people seem to like having their picture taken with me.
Most of the time I do not mind the picture taking, and I enjoy meeting people, I will admit that sometimes it gets a bit tiring. Particularly when the picture-taking process goes like this:
md (talking to someone, but noticing out of the corner of his eye someone fidgeting...): "Do you want to take a picture?"
Other person (OP): "Yes, may I take a picture of you?"
md (turning to person he was talking with): "I am sorry, but this should not take long...."
The OP then:
- searches through their backpack for the camera
- tries to turn it on, finds out that the batteries are dead
- refits the camera with new batteries
- finds that the camera's memory is full of other pictures
- carefully deletes a few pictures
- looks for someone to take the picture
- points out the button necessary to take the picture
- realizes that the other fifteen people they want in the picture are not there
- calls to those other people to get into place
We then try to take the picture and find out that the camera person really does not know how to use this camera/phone (I wonder how much the companies that make these machines pay their human interface design engineers?)
Finally the picture is taken....about five minutes after the initial "fidget".
Sometimes these requests come as I am trying to make my way from where I am to a meeting, or (at the age of 61, is even worse) to the bathroom. And after one picture (with flash) is taken, ten more people line up, and we start the process all over again.
About two years ago I was talking with a Brazilian friend of mine, Alberto Azevedo and I was threatening to make a T-shirt that on one side would say something like:
"Yes, you can have your picture taken with me"
"No, it is not a problem...but please"
then on the back would say:
"The camera MUST be ready"
"You must know how to use it"
"Anyone that wants to be in the picture MUST be here already."
but I never made the T-shirt.
At FISL 12 Alberto gave me a nicely embroidered T-shirt with the front and back as above.
I will be wearing this T-shirt to various conferences. Please do not mistake my intention, as I still want you to take the picture, but please be a bit more efficient about it.
Carpe Diem!
Good to heart itHahahaha, Great! Hello my friend. I'm so glad that you liked the T-shirt. I'm sure it will be very useful from now on! And don't worry, everybody knows that you are a great guy, and have a lot of patience to take hundreds of pictures
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A D.C. police officer facing child pornography charges apparently committed suicide one day after being released from jail.
Marc Washington was found unconscious in the Washington Channel near Hains point just after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
He had just been fitted with a GPS monitoring bracelet.
Washington was freed from jail Monday morning and was on his own until Tuesday when he was given a GPS ankle bracelet and told to go home where he would be under house arrest.
But instead of going to Waldorf, Md., the 32-year-old apparently drove himself to Hains Point where he may have jumped into the frigid waters of the Washington Channel.
FOX 5 has been closely following this case since the Seventh District officer was arrested last week. Now a timeline is starting to come together.
We now know Washington was released from the cellblock at U.S. District Court Monday morning and told to show up at the Pretrial Services Agency at 633 Indiana Avenue, NW, where he would be placed into the high intensity supervision program.
With an opportunity to talk to Washington, that is where we waited hours for him Tuesday.
But somehow, he got past us unnoticed, made his appointment, and was then, according to a source familiar with the investigation, allowed to leave through a back door onto D Street so he could avoid our camera out front.
From there, we know Washington walked a block to Superior Court where he submitted to a drug test. Where he went after that is still unclear.
We went to his Charles County, Md., house in the late afternoon, but there was no answer.
According to Cliff Keenan, Director of Pretrial Services Agency, Washington's movements were recorded by GPS and that information was turned over to police.
This is what we know about what happened Tuesday night.
A call was placed to 911 around 8:15 p.m. from an unknown male caller alerting police to a suspicious situation at bay 11 on Hains Point. That is where U.S. Park Police found a car running and clothing on the ground next to it. Officers then looked into the channel after calling harbor patrol and found the body of Officer Washington.
It is unclear how he got into the water and all along the railing is 45 yards of nothing but fingerprint dust.
Washington was facing a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison if convicted on the child porn charge.
Investigators say the Seventh District officer took naked pictures of a 15-year-old girl while in uniform and on duty.
He was telling the teen it was "procedure" after she had been reported missing by her mother.
D.C. police say investigators know who made that 911 call, but will not say if it was placed by the officer before he went in the water.
Washington was taken by helicopter to the Washington Hospital Center where he was pronounced dead sometime Tuesday morning.
We asked to talk to the chief about the investigation, but were told she was unavailable.
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Apple Q1 Estimates Plagued by Uncertainty
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In late January, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will announce its first quarter results, marking the first quarter in which the iPhone 5 was available for the entire quarter. During the quarter, Apple introduced a handful of new products, including the iPad Mini, the 4th generation iPad, and the iMac. As Tim Cook noted in the Q4 earnings call, Apple expects approximately 80% of Q1's revenue to come from new products. With so many new product launches on a larger global scale than ever before, Q1 estimates are plagued by uncertainty.
Last Year's Q1 Results
Last year Apple made history when it fiercely defied the "law of large numbers," reporting a 128% and 111% year over year increase in iPhone and iPad sales, respectively. No doubt these numbers will make comparisons difficult in FQ1 of 2013.
Investors should keep in mind that the iPhone 4S was actually launched during FQ1 of 2012 as opposed to the quarter before (unlike the iPhone 5 which was launched at the end of the Q4). In other words, the iPhone 4S was only available for two and a half months during the holiday quarter last year while the iPhone 5 was available for the full holiday quarter.
To put the severity of last years Q1 blowout into perspective, take a look at the chart below:
This Year's Q1 Estimates
Unlike the rising bullish sentiment prior to Apple's FQ1 earnings in 2012, analysts have been downgrading their price targets leading up to this year's Q1 earnings announcement. However, investors should keep in mind that analysts average price target of $740 is 39% higher than today's $534 share price for Apple shares.
In other words, tough comparisons in Q1 are already priced into the stock. As Fortune's Apple 2.0 editor Philip Elmer-Ewitt notes, the gap between Apple's stock price and the consensus price estimate is the widest among many other tech stocks, including Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Amazon, AOL, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and HP.
So what are the Street's expectations?
After many Wall Street and independent Apple analysts overestimated revenue and earnings last quarter, estimates have regressed to more conservative levels. For instance, Wall Street only expects Apple to beat its own guidance for revenue and EPS by 4.8% and 13.1%, respectively.
These Wall Street estimates are particularly conservative for two reasons: (1) Historically, Apple's guidance is extremely conservative when compared to actual results; with a 4.8% and 13.1% gap between the Street's revenue and earnings estimates, there is less room for Apple to miss estimates. (2) Revenue and earnings growth tend to obliterate Apple's guidance (and Wall Street estimates) in quarters following an iPhone launch. Consider, for example, that in FQ1 of 2012 Apple guided for about $34 billion in revenue yet actual revenue approached $47 billion. EPS follows the same pattern, with an even larger difference between guidance and actual results in quarters immediately following the iPhone launch.
"Miss," "Solid," and "Blowout" Results
Below are the three key metrics needed to meet the criteria for "miss," "solid," and "blowout" results. I've defined each scenario as follows:
- Miss: Results are disappointing; stock price falls.
- Solid: Results are as expected; stock price holds.
- Blowout: Results surpass expectations; stock price rises.
The most important metric during the quarter will be earnings per share (EPS). EPS is always important in Apple earnings releases, but there is a differentiating factor this quarter that makes it more important than usual: Currently, Wall Street is forecasting a 4.1% decline in year over year EPS. A decline in Apple's holiday quarter EPS would result in a less favorable P/E ratio, making Apple appear to be more expensive. On the other hand, an increase in EPS would result in a more favorable P/E ratio, making Apple's already conservative valuation appear to be even cheaper.
Conservatism: The Friend of the Long-Term Apple Investor
Fortunately for Apple investors, the recent sell-off from a high of $700 per share just a few months ago has dramatically decreased the downside risk going into Q1 earnings. Considering Apple's impressive ability to turn sales into free cash flow, Apple is conservatively priced in relation to thriving large cap, tech peers like Google, Microsoft, and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC).
Measured by the P/E ratio, Apple is cheaper than both Google and Microsoft, yet more expensive than Intel.
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Measured by free cash flow yield, Apple is cheaper than both Google and Intel, while more expensive than Microsoft. Free cash flow yield shows you what percentage of a company's share price is represented by the cold, hard cash it's churning out. The higher this percentage, the better.
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Given the tough year over year comparisons and the uncertainty associated with a handful of new products, a conservative valuation is logical.
The Bottom Line
A conservative valuation has dampened downside risk to potentially unsatisfactory results. But with so many uncertainties, it is tough to peg a specific estimate to potential upside. No matter the results for the quarter, today's price marks a great point for long-term investors to buy Apple shares.
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