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- I will use Pfizer/Celebrex case study to highlight two major points: Distractions are disastrous for any business, particularly when senior level executives are distracted. A strategy that is developed in a hurry without proper input from independent thinkers may actually result in a "strategy vacuum". Pfizer's poor Celebrex strategy Let us go back to September when Merck recalled Vioxx. Tempting as it was, Pfizer aggressively started to court Vioxx patients through direct to consumer advertising. |
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- Engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego are using the shell of a seaweed-eating snail as a guide in the development of a new generation of bullet-stopping armor. The colorful oval shell of the red abalone is highly prized as a source of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, jewelry, but the UCSD researchers are most impressed by the shell's ability to absorb heavy blows without breaking. |
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- The time for standing in place is gone and anyone who wants the best in certificate gift online shopping should understand that. There are many people who want to know more about certificate gift online shopping and since you are here you must be one of them. Anyway we are happy to have you as a visitor and want to make your visit worthwhile. There are a number of certificate gift online shopping websites on the Internet as you surely know. Some are worthwhile and others are completely worthless. |
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- Former President Bill Clinton's best-selling memoir, My Life, "will be published this summer in two paperback formats," the New York Times reports. "One format will separate the original book into two volumes -- one with his recollections of his early life and the other recounting his presidency."... |
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- Der einzige Gedanke der mich gerade eben vom Rückfall abgehalten hat, war der, dass ich dann wieder den ganzen Arbeitstag durchrauchen "muss"/"werde&q müssen", wie auch immer man es nennen will. |
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- Ridge told BBC News 24's HARDtalk: "By and large, as a matter of policy we need to state over and over again: we do not condone the use of torture to extract information from terrorists." But he said it was "human nature" that torture might be employed in certain exceptional cases when time was very limited. - "US 'should not rule out torture'," bbc news january 14, 2005 |
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- This weekend Kelly and I are off to Bellingham to rally with the Marr twins. Bellingham is a college town about an hour and a half north of Seattle and about 20 minutes from the Canadian border - just a... |
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- To me planning a meeting is essential. Here are three of the many reasons. 1) W |
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- [SecurityFocus Vulns] - Sender: customer service mailbox [customerservice at idefense dot com] |
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- [SecurityFocus Vulns] - WebSeries is an enterprise payment system with web-based functionality that is produced by Bottomline Technologies. It has been reported that WebSeries is affected by fo... |
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- [SecurityFocus Vulns] - Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) provides support for several file types that require server side processing. A buffer overflow vulnerability has been repor... |
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- [SecurityFocus Vulns] - CDE is a Motif-based graphical user environment for Unix systems. It is shipped with a number of commercial Unix operating systems. A buffer overflow vulnerability in o... |
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- [SecurityFocus Vulns] - A buffer overflow exists in imapd. The vulnerability exists in the list command. By supplying a long, well-crafted string as the second argument to the list command, it b... |
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- This is my old RSS feed. Please consider resubscribing to http://groovymother. com/atom. xml for a better quality feed (including such luxuries as full entries). |
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- You may have seen the following email or not - I have gotten about 10 copies of it, and I think it is a darned good idea. So if you haven't heard about this or gotten an email, think about... |
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- As we have been asked to pass this on I thought a post here might be of interest. On Monday 17th January, all the UK's commercial radio stations will be joining together to broadcast a simultaneous 12 hour special programme to raise money for the child victims of the Asian tsunami. Listeners will be asked to donate one hour of their time or money to long term projects for children, especially those who have been left without families or homes. Each hour of programming will be hosted by two guest DJs who will introduce live bands, guest interviews, competitions, auctions, pledges, messages and news breaks. Some of the biggest names in radio history, alongside politicians, musicians, sports and TV stars are taking part. |
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- The American Association of Debt Management The American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO) has issued a report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the impact on credit counseling agencies and consumers of the potential revocation of the industry’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. [PRWEB Jan 14, 2005] |
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- The American Association of Debt Management Organizations (AADMO) has issued a report to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the impact on credit counseling agencies and consumers of the potential revocation of the industry’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. [PRWEB Jan 14, 2005] |
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- Great Dane Rescue group is looking for foster homes for Danes abandoned during the holiday season. [PRWEB Jan 14, 2005] |
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- Jim Collins, best-selling author of Built to Last and Good to Great, recently spoke to a packed room of nonprofit leaders about how they can apply lessons from Good to Great to improve the effectiveness of their organizations and the sector as a whole. The event, entitled, "GOOD TO GREAT: Lessons for the Social Sector," was hosted by Bridgestar, an initiative of the Bridgespan Group whose goal is to attract, develop and connect senior leaders – established and aspiring – for greater effectiveness and social impact. Detailed highlights of Collins’ presentation are available in the January issue of “Leadership Matters” or online at http://capella. |
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- The Charles River Public Internet Center (CRPIC) announced that it has received a $20,000 grant, which will enable the nonprofit organization to make a special effort to recruit children for their programs, like the upcoming Kids Computer Challenge. The funding was awarded by Connections for Tomorrow (C4T), an innovative capacity-building and program development grant program for community and faith-based organizations in Massachusetts. [PRWEB Jan 14, 2005] |
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- IT services firm Ciber aims to create 200 jobs in Oklahoma City as part of a plan to open several low-cost "made in America" centers. |
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- UWB is a great idea for a cordless phone replacement: The chance of interference is about nil, and while UWB needs short distances for high speeds, it can actually maintain decent speeds--certainly high enough for voice codecs--at much longer distances, such as throughout a typical modern home. If you already have a UWB hub or infrastructure for home entertainment, this isn't that weird an idea. ZigBee, 802. |
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- Interesting editorial concludes that spectrum management is leading to municipal wireless fights: If you follow Thomas Hazlett's logic from start to finish, he argues that the reason there's a pull for municipal wireless--including from municipalities that have fought or imposed tough conditions on other forms of broadband in the past--is that companies that would like to provide such services are stymied by bandwidth scarcity. If they had the bandwidth, they' |
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- In my earlier response to Nelson Minar's article I offered discussion of his thoughts that there are too many choices in the mixed bag of Python/XML libraries. Now here's some relevant code. |
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- The Home Office in Snow: One of the photos I uploaded to Flickr for Operation Gadget readers to look at. [ Photo: Dave Aiello ] Earlier this week, I promised that I would point to my Flickr account when I... |
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- Trojan horses are piggybacking on an antipiracy feature in Media Player, a security firm claims. But Microsoft denies it's a flaw. |
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- Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]... |
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- Elisabeth Bumiller's White House love-in continues in today's New York Times. Earlier this week, Bumiller offered up a warm kiss for incoming White House Communications Director Nicolle Devenish. Today, she shares the love with Bush buddy Roland W. Betts. |
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- Le séminaire scientifique international sur le criquet pèlerin a pris fin hier, sous la présidence du Premier ministre, Macky Sall. Un programme de lutte préventive contre le criquet pèlerin a été préconisé en vue d'éradiquer définitivement le fléau. |
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- Patrick Eakes says the BizJournal deserves credit for writing about the N&R's online effort...but knocks them for not putting the story online yet. "I wonder if they should buy a ticket for this train, instead of watching it leave the station." A point I've been trying to make to the BizJournal for a while now, although not as concisely as Patrick did... |
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- Orlando Dating Service at cuteandsingle.com |
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- REM's Murmur used to mean everything in the world to me. In the days when a punk rock shirt signified... |
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