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Nasa cancels plan to use Utapao

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SEAC4RS

The Nation June 28, 2012 2:14 pm

"On June 26, 2012, NASA cancelled the SEAC4RS mission, which was scheduled to begin in August 2012, due to the absence of necessary approvals by regional authorities in the timeframe necessary to support the mission's planned deployment and scientific observation window," the Nasa website announced.

Nasa's twitter site has also announced the cancellation, saying: "We have, unfortunately, had to call off this airborne science mission planned for Southeast Asia this year."

The Thai government has declined to approve Nasa's request to use Utapao and will first hold a parliamentary debate on the issue. However, the parliament will convene the next meeting on August 1, which would be too late for the Nasa to start the mission as scheduled.

The SEAC4RS or the Southeast Asia Composition, Cloud, Climate Coupling Regional Study was initially planned to be NASAs most complex and ambitious airborne science campaign of the year.

Had the plans been approved by the Thai government, the SEAC4RS would take to the field in August. The campaign was led by Brian Toon, chair of the University of Colorado's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.

Dr Toon is a veteran of NASA airborne campaigns, including flights to study the Antarctic ozone hole and the atmospheric effects of volcanic eruptions.

Parliament President Somsak Kiartsuranon said the planned parliamentary debate on Nasa's request would be cancelled now that Nasa would no longer use Utapao.

Informed by reporters of Nasa's announcement, Somsak said he was sorry that Nasa had cancelled the project.

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NASA previews Mars Rover landing with joined up social event

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Summary: NASA is hosting a multi center social media event across its centers in the US to preview the landing of the Mars Science Curiosity Rover on August 6th.

Credit: NASA

NASA is hosting a multi centre social media event for US citizens across its centres to preview the landing of the Mars Science Curiosity Rover on August 6th.

The event is designed to increase awareness of the landing, create buzz across social channels and to get more people interested in NASA through various social platforms.

If you follow one of NASAs social media accounts you can register for selection at one of the locations. NASA has a presence on Twitter: @MarsCuriosity, @NASA and @NASASocial, Facebook: MarsCuriosity and NASA or Google+: NASA.

If you are selected, you will be able to meet other social media NASA fans and learn about the Mars Science Laboratory mission and the respective NASA field centre.

If you do not get selected, you will still be able to follow the event via Facebook and Google+ posts and by following the hashtag #NASASocial.

The social event may also be streamed by the Jet Propulsion Lab:

Events will be held simultaneously at six NASA field centers, including:

Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.; Glenn Research Center in Cleveland Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Tx. Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

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NASA Cancels Climate Study in Thailand

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The United States says it will not be able to carry out a major climate study this year because Thailand has delayed a decision on whether to grant the U.S. space agency permission to use a key naval air base.

NASA's request to use Thailand's U-Tapao air base as the project's operations center has faced opposition from critics who say it could be a cover for military purposes. The base is located in Chonburi province, 190 kilometers (118 miles) southeast of Bangkok.

"It is too early to say at this time whether resources will be available to revisit the project next year," U.S. Embassy spokesman Walter Braunohler told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The project, called the "Southeast Asia Composition, Cloud, Climate Coupling Regional Study," was to use satellites, aircraft and ground missions to study how air circulation during the monsoon affects the climate and air quality in South and Southeast Asia.

Thai scientists involved in the project were skeptical that NASA would pursue its mission in Thailand next year.

"It's a great loss for Thailand to lose a vital opportunity to learn what we should know about regional climate, including floods, drought and other catastrophes," said Serm Janjai, a physics professor at Thailand's Silpakorn University involved in the project. "But what is more important is it has destroyed confidence in Thailand among the international science community. Someone has to take responsibility for this failure."

NASA said it canceled the mission Tuesday "due to the absence of necessary approvals by regional authorities in the time frame necessary to support the mission's planned deployment and scientific observation window," according to the project's website.

Thailand's Cabinet had agreed Tuesday to have lawmakers debate the issue before deciding on whether to grant permission for the project. However, Parliament does not reconvene until Aug. 1 a month after NASA's deadline for a decision.

U-Tapao was a major base for U.S. bombing missions during the Vietnam War, and some critics have charged that the NASA project is a threat to Thai sovereignty and that it might also anger China. The U.S. military has continued to use the base for refueling and as a staging area for humanitarian relief operations, including those conducted after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Myanmar's 2008 Cyclone Nargis.

The NASA project would have studied carbon emissions in the region in August and September, when regional monsoons could carry wildfire smoke from Indonesia and Malaysia north to countries such as Thailand.

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Frost & Sullivan: Technological Developments Offer Growth Opportunities for Microscope Market, Despite Saturation in …

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Spending on life sciences and nanotechnology will lead to sustained industry growth

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The need to overcome long sales cycles and the saturation of the light microscope segment represent some of the key industry challenges today within the global microscope market. Leaders in this market are overcoming this challenge by offering software-defined architectures with better statistical analysis performance capabilities that acquire a higher quality of data. Software applications are giving end-users different ways to improve complexity in sample data analysis.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.measurement.frost.com( http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/svcg.pag/AESI )), Analysis of the Microscopes Market, finds that the global microscope markets earned revenues of $3.18 billion in 2011 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.0 percent during the forecasted period between 2012 and 2018.

If you are interested in more information on this research, please send an email to Jeannette Garcia, Corporate Communications, at jeannette.garcia@frost.com( mailto:jeannette.garcia@frost.com ), with your full name, company name, job title, telephone number, company email address, company website, city, state and country.

Although the growth of the market is focused on advanced research microscopes and complex digital imaging systems, there is a large and saturated market for light microscopes with high longevity to serve traditional applications and educational use. The light microscopes longevity and saturation thus restrains growth of the market.

"The market has reached a highly saturated growth phase," said Senior Research Analyst Mariano Kimbara. "There is minimal capacity for alternative techniques in this segment within the long-term."

Nevertheless, microscope manufacturers are constantly driven to increase the performance capabilities of their products, acquire data and add new features for image processing to meet demands in emerging applications such as nanotechnology.

"A main driving factor driving demand for microscopes is the development of nanotechnology and increasing spending in life sciences," said Kimbara. "There has been a significant rise in funds allocated for characterization and synthesis of nanomaterials research."

For example, there have been significant technological advancements in the field of nanolithography. These include the analysis of nanometer structures in a wide range of dimensions related to dip pen nanolithography, electron beam direct or ultraviolet lithography, thereby creating significant demand for microscopes.

Analysis of the Microscopes Market is part of the Measurement & Instrumentation Growth Partnership Services program, which also includes research in the following markets: General Purpose Test & Equipment and Modular Instruments for Test & Measurement. All research services included in subscriptions provide detailed market opportunities and industry trends that have been evaluated following extensive interviews with market participants.

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UNLV nanotechnology camp aims to cultivate next generation of engineers

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Seventeen Clark County high school students attended a hands-on, four-day nanotechnology camp at UNLV. Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Its cutting-edge applications can be seen in everything from computers to machinery to building materials to medicines tofood.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012 | 2 a.m.

Camp last week for a small group of Clark County high school students didnt include swimming, hiking or any of the usual recreation activities associated with summer.

But then, these students werent attending a traditional summer camp.

Instead, they were participating in a nanotechnology camp at UNLV. Nanotechnology is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Its cutting-edge applications can be seen in everything from computers to machinery, building materials to medicines and food.

The camp attracted 17 students, who attended lectures on various topics related to nanotechnology. Hui Zhao, a UNLV assistant professor of mechanical engineering, said enrollment in the camp was kept relatively low by design to allow the students to take a more hands-on approach. Once the opening day of lectures was finished, camp sessions were devoted to applying the lecture material in a laboratory setting.

Among other projects, campers made nano solar cells that generated electricity, Zhoa said.

UNLV sponsored the camp as part of a grant it received to broaden interests of high school students so that they are more likely to pursue the study of science and engineering in college.

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Industrial Nanotech Launches New Nanotechnology Based Industrial Insulation and Protective Coating: Nansulate(R) Diamond

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NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Industrial Nanotech, Inc. (Pink Sheets:INTK), an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving and sustainable solutions announced today that the Company has launched a new product in their industrial line, Nansulate(R) Diamond. The product is a fast-cure high heat industrial insulation and corrosion prevention coating that provides energy savings and personnel protection for equipment surfaces up to 400F.

Nansulate Diamond makes an excellent addition to our nanotechnology based industrial coating line, stated Francesca Crolley, VP of Business Development for Industrial Nanotech, Inc. The product offers the same excellent combination of benefits: thermal insulation, energy savings, corrosion prevention, and resistance to moisture and weathering and offers a faster curing time and non-slip surface. This coating has been in successful trials on industrial equipment with a major international automotive manufacturer and has produced excellent results. This product fits in well with our other industrial coatings, which have been providing energy savings for our commercial and industrial clients since 2004, and offers additional options for faster curing and a textured, opaque surface. Nansulate(R) Diamond will give us the opportunity to provide solutions for more industrial applications, such as those requiring a faster cure, and give our customers the excellent energy savings and short 6-18 month payback period that they have come to expect from Industrial Nanotech products. We are taking pre-orders now, and the product will be launched and available in July.

About Nansulate(R)

Nansulate(R) is the Company's patented product line of award winning, specialty coatings containing a nanotechnology based material and which are well-documented to provide the combined performance qualities of thermal insulation, corrosion prevention, resistance to mold growth, fire resistance, chemical resistance and lead encapsulation in an environmentally safe, water-based, coating formulation. The Nansulate(R) Product Line includes industrial, residential, agricultural and solar thermal insulation coatings. Additional information about the Company and its products can be found at their websites, (www.inanotk.com) and (www.nansulate.com). Blog: http://www.nansulate.com/nanoblog, Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NanoPioneer, Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Nansulate.

About Industrial Nanotech Inc.

Industrial Nanotech Inc. is a global nanoscience solutions and research leader and member of the U.S. Green Building Council. The Company develops and commercializes new and innovative applications for sustainable nanotechnology which are sold worldwide.

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Green feel for collaboration with China

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Dr Li Li has received a Queensland International Fellowship.

The materials scientist from UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) is working with experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to reduce emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).

Dr Li has received a Queensland International Fellowship to help her travel to China and work with Research Center for Eco-Environmental Science Professor Zhengping Hao.

The fellowship, worth $16,000, will cement a collaboration between AIBN, based at The University of Queensland, and the Chinese academy involving the development of high-performance catalysts for VOC removal, using a catalytic oxidation process.

Dr Li said a desire to help improve air quality motivated her in her research with AIBN supervisors, Professor Chengzhong (Michael) Yu and Associate Professor Zhiping (Gordon) Xu.

VOC emissions greatly affect air quality in our cities. Each year in Australia more than 60,000 tonnes of VOCs are released into the atmosphere, she said.

They are very toxic to human health and cause severe environmental problems through the formation of photochemical smog.

This is what attracted me to this area of research and motivates me to try to develop a cheaper catalyst to eliminate VOCs to improve air quality.

Dr Li said VOCs were carbon-based chemicals that easily evaporated into gaseous forms at room temperature.

The collaboration with Professor Hao aimed to develop a high-performance and cost-effective metal oxide catalysts for VOC elimination.

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A step toward minute factories that produce medicine inside the body

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Scientists are reporting an advance toward treating disease with minute capsules containing not drugs but the DNA and other biological machinery for making the drug. In an article in ACS' journal Nano Letters, they describe engineering micro- and nano-sized capsules that contain the genetically coded instructions, plus the read-out gear and assembly line for protein synthesis that can be switched on with an external signal.

Daniel Anderson and colleagues explain that development of nanoscale production units for protein-based drugs in the human body may provide a new approach for treating disease. These production units could be turned on when needed, producing medicines that cannot be taken orally or are toxic and would harm other parts of the body. Until now, researchers have only done this with live bacteria that were designed to make proteins at disease sites. But unlike bacterial systems, artificial ones are modular, and it is easier to modify them. That's why Anderson's group developed an artificial, remotely activated nanoparticle system containing DNA and the other "parts" necessary to make proteins, which are the workhorses of the human cell and are often used as drugs.

They describe the nanoscale production units, which are tiny spheres encapsulating protein-making machinery like that found in living cells. The resulting nanoparticles produced active proteins on demand when the researchers shined a laser light on them. The nanoparticles even worked when they were injected into mice, which are stand-ins for humans in the laboratory, producing proteins when a laser was shone onto the animals. This innovation "may find utility in the localized delivery of therapeutics," say the researchers.

More information: "Remotely Activated Protein-Producing Nanoparticles, Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (6), pp 26852689. DOI: 10.1021/nl2036047

Abstract The development of responsive nanomaterials, nanoscale systems that actively respond to stimuli, is one general goal of nanotechnology. Here we develop nanoparticles that can be controllably triggered to synthesize proteins. The nanoparticles consist of lipid vesicles filled with the cellular machinery responsible for transcription and translation, including amino acids, ribosomes, and DNA caged with a photolabile protecting group. These particles served as nanofactories capable of producing proteins including green fluorescent protein (GFP) and enzymatically active luciferase. In vitro and in vivo, protein synthesis was spatially and temporally controllable, and could be initiated by irradiating micrometer-scale regions on the time scale of milliseconds. The ability to control protein synthesis inside nanomaterials may enable new strategies to facilitate the study of orthogonal proteins in a confined environment and for remotely activated drug delivery.

Journal reference: Nano Letters

Provided by American Chemical Society

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Brain Freeze – Video

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27-06-2012 08:05 "Leonard is an author. Was an author. He still is but he's exhausted. He's exhausted his idea pool, and his critics slam his every move. He hasn't written anything new for anyone in over a year. His completed draft of a new work is six months overdue. But truth be told, he hasn't written a word. He can't. He's got brain freeze." An author goes inside his mind in search of his next idea. The results are not always what he expected. [720p is a mastered version of a 480p original file. Watch at 720 for the best quality, but the film is not true HD.] ---------------------------- deckofcards Productions presents a Teaspoon Pictures film "BRAIN FREEZE" with Jamie White as Leonard Page Sinclair as Girl Harry Milas as Captain Pinkcoat Max Wilkie as Dick Sly Caitlyn Ellwood as Ms Buckley Caitlin Reynolds as Violet Music by Angus Ma Edited by Glenn Saunders Director of Photography, Liz Duck-Chong Assistant Director, Braden Baker Produced by Caitlin Reynolds, Max Wilkie, Liz Duck-Chong Written by Caitlin Reynolds Directed by Glenn Saunders Film made available online via Hipster Pictures Shot on location in Sydney in July 2008. Premiered in Sydney in February 2009. Remastered and uploaded, June 2012. All content rights reserved. All rights and permissions obtained in writing in order to upload and monetize the above content. © 2008 -- 2009, 2012.

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The Clamps – Into My Mind – Video

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Visit California Kicks Off Summer of Fun

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SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --California is positioned to offer a "Summer of Fun" for visitors owing to an unprecedented number of significant enhancements to some of the Golden State's most iconic attractions. From Disney's California Adventure and Universal Studios to SeaWorld San Diego, more than $1.2 billion have been invested in new rides and experiences. To learn more about these developments in one location, Visit California has launched a Summer of Fun destination page about these new offerings at http://www.visitcalifornia.com/Life-In-California/Summer-of-Fun/.

"It is unprecedented to have three of California's biggest attractions to unveil major developments all in one season," says Caroline Beteta, CEO and President of Visit California. "Combined, they provide yet another reason to visit the Golden State this summer, especially for families."

These include:

For a virtual thrill, visitors can take or upload a picture and apply fun filters that exaggerate their features as if they've just stepped off a California thrill ride. This "California Fun Face Photo-Booth app" can be found at http://www.visitcalifornia.com/Life-In-California/Summer-of-Fun/ and the Visit California Facebook page, Facebook.com/VisitCA, through July. The hair raising, jaw-dropping headshots can then be downloaded or easily shared with friends on Facebook and other social media platforms, showcasing the fun and excitement of California's theme parks.

"The Summer of Fun initiative showcases a selection of the best 'only-in-California' travel experiences," Beteta said. "Through logging onto the corresponding micro-site, kids and 'kids at heart' can virtually experience and share the state's thrilling attractions through the photo-booth app."

To add to a "Summer of Fun" in the Golden State, Cirque du Soleil's permanent Los Angeles extravaganza IRIS provides a different type of thrill. Located at the home of the Oscars, the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, audiences take a journey into the world of film through this inventive spectacle that combines acrobatics, dance, projections and live music. Tickets start at $43. http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/shows/iris/default.aspx

Visitors can also skip the ticket lines and save 31 percent on admission to these attractions using the Southern California CityPASS. http://www.citypass.com/southern-california

Media can learn more about what's new this summer at California's theme parks, by watching this podcast from various attraction partners throughout the Golden State. The podcast is available to view for a limited time at http://media.visitcalifornia.com/Story-Development/Whats-New

Visit California (formerly known as the California Travel & Tourism Commission) is a non-profit organization with a mission to develop and maintain marketing programs - in partnership with the state's travel industry - that keep California top-of-mind as a premier travel destination. According to Visit California, travel and tourism expenditures total $102.3 billion annually in California (20 percent of which is international), support jobs for 893,000 Californians and generate $6.3 billion in state and local tax revenues. For more information about Visit California and for a free California Official State Visitor's Guide, go to http://www.visitcalifornia.com.

Contact: Jennifer Sweeney, Visit California (916) 233-0255 jsweeney@visitcalifornia.com

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Substituting treaties for hard thinking on asylum seekers

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It was, yes, a day of extraordinary drama in the House of Representatives.

Normal business was suspended. MPs openly wept. Nearly all speakers were heard in funereal silence. MPs congregated in strange clusters, disengaged, and reformed into others equally exotic, like free-floating cells trying to combine into a viable form. The Greens Sarah Hanson-Young sat in the distinguished visitors gallery behind the Coalition, joined at various stages by admixtures of colleague Adam Bandt, Andrew Wilkie, Mal Washer and Julie Bishop.

Warren Entsch hovered uncertainly just out of earshot of conversations. Mal Washer seemed to be unable to move without Julie Bishop either accompanying him or watching him intently. Joel Fitzgibbon at times took up a spot on the frontbench (where, of course, he feels he rightly belongs) to count off numbers with Anthony Albanese.Off-stage, equally animated talks were occurring.

Parliament had been shamed into this frantic activity by news of yet another boat sinking. The shame, however, didnt extend to actual agreement. That viable form was never achieved. The government secured a notable win in engineering Rob Oakeshotts bill through the house, with support from Andrew Wilkie once a sunset clause was added. But defeat of the bill in the Senate awaits at the hands of the Greens and the Coalition. The house and Senate will rise, MPs and senators will return home, the boats will continue to sink.

MPs can cry at the dispatch box all they like. Everyones emotional on this issuevoters, journalists, politicians. But only the latter are the ones who get the chance to do something about it, unlike the rest of us. And the Coalition and the Greens have elected not to do anything about it.

Let us carefully note the reasons why the bill will fail. Despite the government agreeing to adopt the useless measure of Nauru, which as a mere footnote will cost the best part of a billion dollars, and agreeing to consider temporary protection visas, the Coalition objects because Malaysia is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention. It had no such concerns when in government, when Nauru hadnt signed the UN Convention. And its concerns arent genuine now, because Indonesia, to where the Coalition would return refugees on boats that remain seaworthy, isnt a signatory either.

Its a tissue-thin justification for opposition, this Damascene conversion to human rights by the Coalition. And to see Phillip Ruddock and Kevin Andrews, men whose records as ministers included savage assaults on basic civil rights, stand up to lecture the chamber was to feel more than a little sick.

And the Greens also maintain that the Malaysia deal is inconsistent with our UN Treaty obligations, that Australias priority should be to meet its treaty obligations, increase its humanitarian intake and that we should focus on a real regional solution, the nature of which isnt exactly clear. Unlike the Coalition, the Greens arent latecomers to the idea of the importance of the UN Refugee Convention. But bear in mind the Greens membership is intensely hostile to anything other than onshore processing, meaning any decision to not oppose the bill would cause severe ructions within the party.

The elevation of our treaty obligations over any policy that might reduce the chances of people dying is legally correct, of course. Its also morally blind, elevating adherence to the terms of a decades-old document over the possibility of saving lives. It substitutes sticking to a treaty for making hard decisions about what the least worst ways are of keeping people alive. Whats worse, getting caned in Malaysia, or drowning between Indonesia and Christmas Island? Whats worse, a child who has been put on a boat unaccompanied by her parents being sent to Malaysia or a child drowning? Dont like the questions or the answers? Thats what were stuck with.

These are hard choices. Countries around the world grapple with the problem of stopping people from risking their lives fleeing to other countries either out of fear of persecution or for economic reasons. Thousands of people die every year in such circumstances. Obsessing over UN treaties or focusing on Malaysias human rights record is a fig leaf for an unwillingness to think rigorously about how to save lives.

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Getting Started | Managing Posts | Tips

Getting Started

One of the most important considerations in using any social media platform is to keep your goals in mind. Ask yourself what you want to do are you looking to increase your number of fans, sales, traffic to your web site, awareness about your business, products or services? Set goals. How many fans do you want in three months, six months, a year? Keep in mind those first 100 fans might be the hardest to capture.

Once you know the answers to those questions, create your Facebook business page. We suggest a page instead of a group. Many people ask whether you should set up a Group or a Page the vast majority of the time, a page works best. You can share more easily, have more of a viral marketing effect, and your information is more public. If you have a business that is members only, or you only want limited people to see information, you can set up a group and invite people to it, and share only information with those people.

Create your page based on your organizations structure. Once you have created your page, you can give it a domain name that is easy-to-remember and market. We use Facebook.com/TelegraphDigitalMarketing for our Telegraph Digital Marketing page. If you have a simpler name, definitely use it, as it will be easier for people to remember when typing it in. For example, Dudleys Bakery is Facebook.com/DudleysBakery. You want to claim your Facebook name sooner rather than later so someone else doesnt take yours! If someone does have yours, you can add NH or some other differentiator to your name. Try to keep it simple, and take time to think about it, because Facebook only allows you to change it once.

After youve created the page, claimed your name, youre ready to get started! You want to upload your profile picture. We recommend uploading a legible logo or easily identifiable icon for your business in this space. After youve uploaded the profile photo, you want to think about what you want for a cover photo. This is essentially the sign youre putting out in front of your business. It cannot have pricing, discount information, contact information or a call to action according to Facebooks cover photo guidelines. The cover photo will work with a variety of photos at least 720 pixels wide, but if you want to make a photo / image to fit, the size should be 851 x 315 pixels. Keep in mind while designing the cover that the profile photo does go over the cover photo slightly on the lower left side.

Now that youre visually looking good, its time to add in some information about your business. In the about area, you have about 140 characters that show up on the page at all times, so use those first set of words carefully. Be sure to include other information after, and include contact information.

Managing Posts

After your page is set up and looking good (visual aspects of Facebook pages are much more important with the timeline setup), you want to go back to thinking about what your goals are and what you want to promote on Facebook. Here are some things to keep in mind and ideas on what to post.

Facebook users love contests. Look around at what other pages are doing for contests your local and national competitors, and businesses in other industries. Be sure to keep Facebooks Promotional guidelines in mind as they are picky about what they allow for contests on the pages you may choose to risk posting contests on your pages, but realize it is a risk and Facebook can pull your page. The safest way to do a contest is to use a third party vendor through an app on Facebook to stay in line with their rules. Some fun contests include promotions following themes like the 12 Days of Christmas, Makeovers, simple enter-to-win contests and more.

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Research and Markets: Skeletal Biology and Medicine II: Bone and cartilage homeostasis and bone disease

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xlqrsk/skeletal_biology_a) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Skeletal Biology and Medicine II: Bone and cartilage homeostasis and bone disease" to their offering.

The volume features current basic, clinical, and translational research on aspects of skeletal morphogenesis and remodeling in health and disease. Papers survey vital new insights into the mechanisms of bone development and restructuring, including cellular and mechanical triggers, receptors and signaling pathways. Also covered are the effects of other physiological systems and disease states, such as immune system inflammation, diabetes, infection, and cancer on musculoskeletal health. Recent findings are shaping therapeutic directions that focus on both anti-resorptive and anabolic therapies.

Basic scientists, clinical investigators, and clinicians with interests spanning endocrinology, physiology, cell biology, pathology, genetics, molecular biology, rheumatology, oncology, and other areas that relate to bone development and homeostasis will find this a valuable resource for the most recent developments in skeletal biology and medicine.

This volume presents manuscripts stemming from the 4th New York Skeletal Biology and Medicine Conference, held at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City on April 27-30, 2011. The papers included in this volume include two of the topic areas presented at the conference; the other topic areas are included in Skeletal Biology and Medicine I.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xlqrsk/skeletal_biology_a

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Research and Markets: Companion Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine and Cancer Therapy

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/h3n97n/companion_diagnost) has announced the addition of the "Companion Diagnostics in Personalized Medicine and Cancer Therapy" report to their offering.

Companion diagnostics (CDx) refers to a particular clinical diagnostic test that is under evaluation and is specifically linked to a known drug therapy. This linkage could be important in the therapeutic application and clinical outcome of a drug, such as with personalized medicine for oncology patients. The molecular diagnostics field plays a vital part in personalized medicine and has greatly expanded over the past twenty years, expanding by more than 20% annually compared to most other laboratory procedures. Research will continue to produce an increased understanding of disease processes, and diagnostics manufacturers will continue to expand and refine the technology and automation needed for clinical testing. Companion diagnostics, although smaller at present, is one of the fastest growing segments in the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) market. And while the concept of a drug-diagnostic combination is not new, it has only recently started to generate interest with the move of healthcare towards pharmacogenomics.

This TriMark Publications report examines the use of companion diagnostics in personalized medicine and cancer therapy. The study provides a qualitative and quantitative review of the industry, including cancer biomarker tests, pharmacogenomics tests, recurrence prediction tests, blood-based technologies, proteomics and regulatory trends. Moreover, this analysis profiles the leading companies that are developing and manufacturing companion diagnostics solutions. Each company is discussed in extensive depth with a section on its history, product line, business and marketing analysis, and a subjective commentary of the company's market position. Detailed tables and charts with sales forecasts and market share data are also included.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Overview

2. Companion Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine

3. Companion Diagnostics: Qualitative and Quantitative Market Analysis

4. Trends and Overview

5. Biomarker Tests Co-developed with Cancer Therapeutics as Companion Diagnostics

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Modernizing Medicine's CEO and Co-Founder, Daniel Cane, Is Named One of South Florida Business Journal's '40 Under 40'

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BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwire -06/27/12)- Modernizing Medicine, the creator of Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), a cloud-based specialty-specific EMR application, announced today that CEO and Co-Founder, Daniel Cane, has been named one of the South Florida Business Journal's (SFBJ) '40 Under 40.'

Each year, the SFBJ honors South Florida's best and brightest young professionals under the age of forty for their professional success and community involvement with a '40 Under 40' award.

A successful serial entrepreneur, Dan has founded three thriving companies in his thirty-five years. In 2010, Dan co-founded Modernizing Medicine with Michael Sherling, MD. Together the pair developed the company's flagship product, EMA, which is used by over 500 practices across the country. In less than 18 months of sales, Dan has helped his team close over $10 million in contacts and secure a number of prestigious awards. In two years, he's grown the company to over 70 employees, raised over $7.1 million in funding, and achieved certification as a Complete EHR by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), and Surescripts certification for prescription routing.

Prior to founding Modernizing Medicine, Dan co-founded Blackboard Inc., an ed-tech enterprise software company. Dan was instrumental in growing the company. He helped to raise over $100 million dollars in venture capital and take the company public on the NASDAQ in 2004. In 2011, Blackboard was sold for $1.6 billion dollars.

After Dan left Blackboard in 2007, he started Kadoo Inc., a company that develops a private video cloud for consumers. Dan helped raise $5 million dollars in investments which was used to create a website that managed the content of diverse personal publishing websites like Facebook and MySpace. Kadoo was sold to 3Sixty Enterprises, LLC in 2009.

Currently, Dan is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at the South Florida Science Museum, a member of the Foundation Board at Florida Atlantic University, frequently serves as a panelist on the Business Development Board of Palm Beach County, and actively involved at the schools of all three of his children.

"I am honored to be named one of South Florida Business Journal's '40 Under 40,'" said Dan. "I wouldn't be where I am today without my incredible team at Modernizing Medicine and my former Blackboard and Kadoo teams. I am very excited for the future of our company and know great things are ahead of us."

Details about the '40 Under 40' and the full list of honorees are available on the South Florida Business Journal website.

About Modernizing MedicineModernizing Medicine is delivering the next generation of electronic medical records (EMR) technology for the healthcare industry. Our product, Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), is a cloud-based specialty-specific EMR with a tremendous amount of medical content already built-in. Available as a native iPad application or from any web-enabled Mac or PC, EMA adapts to each provider's unique style of practice and is designed to interface with over 400 different practice management systems. Today, Modernizing Medicine provides specialty-specific offerings for the dermatology, ophthalmology, and optometry markets, and to more than 500 practices across the country.

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Bethlehem Area School District agrees to join electronic medical record exchange

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Soon, when an asthmatic student ends up in a Bethlehem Area School District nurse's office, the student's entire medical history will be a few computer clicks away.

The school board has approved joining a regional partnership that would make the electronic medical records of Bethlehem and Allentown School District readily available to emergency room doctors and nurses alike, Superintendent Joseph Roy said.

Allentown has to take its own actions to join.

The Children's Care Alliance is the product of a partnership between the districts and Lehigh Valley Health Network, St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network, Sacred Heart Health Systems and Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network.

Lehigh Valley pitched the pediatric health information exchange to the Bethlehem board in October. At that time, network officials said the three-phase project was expected to cost more than $2.3 million and take two and a half to three years to finish.

Lehigh Valley already has more than $1 million available for the first two phases through grants and in-kind donations, officials said. It is funding the project through grants and assumes all responsibility for costs.

Roy said Bethlehem will continue to work with alliance partners on technical and implementation issues.

Organizers envision a system where an asthmatic student ends up in a Lehigh Valley Hospital emergency room and doctors have his entire medical history. If he ends up in St. Luke's a few days later, doctors will know what to do to aggressively treat him and keep him out of the hospital, officials said in October.

Officials previously said the first phase would create a secure electronic medical record database for school districts and clinics to use and share information. The database will include any student health information districts must keep on file.

The second phase will tie the school medical records in with the Lehigh Valley Health Network physician portal. The final phase is estimated to cost $1.3 million and will build a pediatric regional health information exchange by tapping into the other hospitals medical records.

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Steven L. Galetta, MD, Appointed Chair of the Department of Neurology at NYU Langone Medical Center

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NYU Langone Medical Center announced today that Steven L. Galetta, MD, has been appointed the Philip K. Moskowitz, MD Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurology, andLaura Balcer, MD, MSCE, has been appointed vice chair of the department. The appointments are effective November 1, 2012.

A nationally recognized leader in neurology and medical education, Dr. Galetta joins NYU Langone from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) where he is the Ruth Wagner Van Meter and J. Ray Van Meter Professor of Neurology, vice chair of the department, and director of the Division of Neuro-Ophthalmology. During his tenure at Penn, Galetta led the Department of Neurology residency program for an unprecedented 23 years. He also leads the neuro-ophthalmology fellowship program and serves as associate dean of admissions of the medical school.

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Galetta as chair of neurology, said Robert I. Grossman, MD, dean and CEO at NYU Langone. As one of todays leading clinical neurologists, he brings a depth and breadth of experience and expertise in neurology, neuro-ophthalmology, and program development, making him the ideal chairperson to lead our already stellar department to even greater heights.

Often noted for his abilities as an educator, Dr. Galetta has received nearly 50 awards including the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, Penns highest teaching award. In 2004, he was also honored for his role as an educator by receiving the American Neurological Associations Distinguished Neurology Teacher Award, granted to only one teacher in the U.S. each year, as well as the Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Additionally he received the Palmer Parker Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Dr. Galetta was the recipient of the Louis Duhring Outstanding Clinical Specialist Award at Penn in 1998. His areas of expertise include research and advances in the treatment of double vision, multiple sclerosis (MS), neuro-ophthalmology, and optic nerve disorders.He is a prolific researcher and has authored more than 200 original papers, as well as 113 editorials and serves on the editorial boards of Neurology and the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology. Additionally, he served as president of the Philadelphia Neurological Society in 2004.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Dr. Galetta received his undergraduate degree from Penn in 1979, and in that same year received the Class of 1915 Award, which is presented annually to the senior male student-athlete who shows outstanding athletic, academic and leadership qualities. Additionally, in 2005 he was inducted into Penn Athletics Hall of Fame for his accomplishments in both lightweight football and track during his undergraduate career. Dr. Galetta received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1983.He completed his neurology residency training at Penn and his neuro-ophthalmology fellowship at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Florida.

It is an honor to join NYU Langone, and I am delighted to return to my roots in New York City, said Dr. Galetta. I am eager to begin this next chapter of my career and to lead NYU Langones already world-class Department of Neurology in delivering exceptional patient care, advanced scientific research, and quality graduate education.

The principal investigator for several notable clinical trials that examine strategies and potential roles for early therapy in MS, Dr. Galetta is also an outstanding mentor, inspiring his trainees to become physician-scientists in neurology and neuro-ophthalmology. In fact, Dr. Galetta introduced one of his first neuro-ophthalmology fellows, Dr. Balcer, to MS as an area for vision research. Since then, they have been teammates and collaborators for over 20 years at Penn, where she serves as a professor of neurology and division chief for MS since 2004, leading a diverse group of physician-scientists, clinicians and staff. She will now join Dr. Galetta in steering the Department of Neurology at NYU Langone.

Dr. Balcer was one of the first epidemiologists within the field of neuro-ophthalmology. She is an established clinical investigator whose teams work has focused on the development of visual outcome measures for MS. Dr. Balcers research, through collaborative efforts with researchers from several other leading institutions, first identified structure-function correlations in the visual pathway that now allow the measuring of axonal and neuronal loss in patients with MS and optic neuritis. She has co-authored more than 150 publications, and is the principal investigator for NIH and foundation grants totaling more than $1 million.

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Phoenix St. Joseph's Hospital to host 3rd-, 4th-year Creighton medical-school students

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by Ken Alltucker - Jun. 27, 2012 06:59 PM The Republic | azcentral.com

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center today adds a new designation: medical-school campus.

The Phoenix hospital becomes a campus for Creighton University's School of Medicine as the initial class of 42 students begins its studies.

The students, who completed their first two years of instruction at Creighton's main campus in Omaha, Neb., will finish their third and fourth years at St. Joseph's. A second class of 42 students will follow next year, giving the Phoenix hospital a constant rotation of 84 third- and fourth-year medical-school students studying in class and roaming the hospital floors on clinical rotations.

The arrangement fulfills St. Joseph's long-sought goal of being a medical-school campus for a Jesuit Catholic university. Creighton, which has long sent medical-school students to St. Joseph's for one-month rotations, pursued the arrangement to expand west with a new campus for its expanded medical school.

Both St. Joseph's and Creighton University touted the relationship as a boon for metro Phoenix's burgeoning medical-education industry and a potential source of future doctors.

"We looked at our long-term commitment to education, improving the health of this community and educating our future health-care providers," said Linda Hunt, area president for San Francisco-based Dignity Health, which owns St. Joseph's Hospital. "We are really excited about the students being here."

Five years ago, metro Phoenix did not have an "M.D." medical school. The University of Arizona College of Medicine opened its Phoenix campus in 2007. Creighton University becomes the region's second allopathic medical school granting doctor of medicine, or M.D., degrees. And Mayo Clinic is ramping up its planning for a branch of Mayo Medical School that expects to open on Mayo's Scottsdale campus in 2014.

The UA College of Medicine this summer will welcome its largest-ever class of 80 students, up from 48 students per year. UA expanded its class size with this summer's opening of the new copper-clad Health Sciences Education building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.

The building will allow the addition of three lecture halls, an anatomy lab and a simulation center as well as administrative offices for medical-school staff. The 268,000-square-foot building will also host Northern Arizona University's physician-assistant and physical-therapy programs.

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