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Your Royal Highness, Your Grace, My Lord Bishop, Your Excellencies, Honoured President, Academicians, Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen, artists, art lovers, friends, trustees, donors, distinguished guests and assorted media scum. I rise to my feet on this occasion with a due sense of the honour that has been accorded me and not a little fear and an – I hope – becoming sense of unworthiness. For I am not an artist

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Speech Given at a Dinner for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – 8th June 2010

Vodafone Essar has come out with a glittering announcement that its iPhone 4 will come off soon in India. The industry sources indicate that Vodafone may please the Indian mobile field with its iPhone in September. It is to be known whether India would be one among the 88 countries shortlisted for the launch of ….Click here to read complete post

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iPhone from Vodafone in India soon

Start a wonderful day by waking up to your iPhone /iPod music collection on the sleek and ingenious sound system. Designed for all Apple iPhone and iPod models (except for Shuffles), this speaker with alarm clock and FM radio functions is destined to meet your music taste and fully complement your lifestyle.

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User Guide – Portable Speaker with Alarm Clock / FM Radio for iPhone and iPod

This is so weird: I just bought a new 500GB external hard drive but when I hook it up to my iMac, I get a little “not allowed” symbol every time I try to copy anything onto the device! Digging around, it appears to be connected “read only”.

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My new external Mac drive is read-only. How can I fix it?

Adobe announced a new 0-day vulnerability in Flash, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat over the weekend. The vulnerability lies in how Flash and Adobe Reader/Acrobat handles a specially formatted SWF file and the attacker can use this to automatically execute malware on the machine when the user just visits a website or opens up a PDF file

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Adobe 0-day vulnerability in Flash, Adobe Reader and Acrobat (CVE-2010-1297)

After 30 years of raising money solely through an annual garden party, the Women’s Caring Program has launched a national campaign to raise $3 million to $4 million to help fund early care and education for the children of Michigan’s working…

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Campaign targets early education: Women’s Caring out to raise $3M

Local Lincoln-Mercury dealers are putting a positive face on news that Ford Motor Co. will discontinue the Mercury line — as they prepare to fight for as much as half of their existing sales.

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Mercury loss threatens smaller dealers: If customers leave, mergers could follow

Toni Dwyer of Communication Trends, Inc, and the ad firm that worked with CNN before the news channel got off the ground in 1980, said: “In the eleventh hour, it occurred to someone that they needed a logo. We had about 24 or 48 hours to turn around and present a design.” — TONI DWYER In 1980 Terry McGuirk was vice president of Turner Broadcasting and involved in the start-up of CNN .

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3 letters, 48 hours, 1 logo

There can be no easy answer to this. Both the Android and Apple iPhone OS are competing for mind space and increasingly green bucks from the paying customer. Both of them have “redefined” the word “cool” and increasingly, the focus has shifted on to advertising platforms

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Smartphones: The next wave of computing?

MACKINAC ISLAND — A Conversation with Michigan’s Congressional Delegation started with the economy and ended with a discussion of partisanship in Washington, D.C.

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Michigan Congressional Delegation debates economic policy progress, pushes for more public-private partnerships

MACKINAC ISLAND — At their annual panel at the Mackinac Policy Conference, the Big Four political leaders of Southeast Michigan spoke out strongly in support of the Detroit River International Crossing, voiced approval for the…

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Southeast Michigan’s Big 4 leaders tackle tax free zones, river crossings, mass transit

Each hexagram of the Yijing contains a nuclear hexagram at its core. And since the nuclear hexagram unfolds from lines 2-5,  it’s the first and last lines, the ‘entrance and exit’ or ‘roots and shoots’ of the hexagram, that vary – so that four hexagrams can be formed around each nucleus.

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The family of 54

At a local conference, a social media “guru” was telling me that LinkedIn is very particular about what groups it allows on the site, and that I can’t just create whatever group I want. I run a resume review service for college kids and I want to have a group associated with it on LinkedIn so that if people search for resume help, they’ll find me.

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How do I create a group in LinkedIn?

MACKINAC ISLAND — “We can’t attain our goal of being a top 10 state if we continue to be a 34th state in student achievement,” said Nolan Finley, editorial page editor of The Detroit News, to begin a morning panel…

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Urban schools are broken, not the kids, founder of University Prep Schools says

Birmingham-based ChangeScape, a health care consulting firm, has formed a new subsidiary, ChangeScape Technologies LLC, to help physicians and hospitals implement electronic medical records technology.

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ChangeScape forms subsidiary to help physicians, hospitals implement electronic medical records

MACKINAC ISLAND — Health care as economic development holds promise for Southeast Michigan and the state, said panelists at a Thursday morning session at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference.

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Health care should be viewed as asset, not liability, for state, panelists say

MACKINAC ISLAND — The time is right for the Detroit Regional Chamber’s push to turn Southeast Michigan into a major inland port for air, sea, rail and ground transportation, said a speaker at a morning panel Thursday at the 30th annual…

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Speaker says time is right to start turning Southeast Michigan into major logistics hub

Ginny Hunt, head of public sector programs (Cross-posted from the YouTube Blog ) It’s no secret that any successful 21st century political campaign must have a robust online strategy to succeed. But elected officials and candidates need more than just a website and a YouTube channel to engage voters: from President Obama’s YouTube interview to Senator Scott Brown’s campaign team’s use of Google Docs to Congressman Scott Murphy’s “ Google blast” ad strategy , we’re seeing politicians use more and more of our products and platforms to interact with voters, share information and keep their campaigns organized. We want to do our part to make sure candidates and campaigns have the tools to stay close to voters, who now expect to hear and see much more from their elected officials than ever before.

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Inform, engage and mobilize voters with YouTube and Google Campaign Toolkits

We see tons of questions like this: “My iPod went through a huge wash, and the screen is black, when I hold the flashlight to it, it is seeable, but, it’s very inconvenient to have a black screened iPod nano in the public.” that ultimately boil down to: my iPod’s busted, how can I get it fixed cheap?

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Are there third-party Apple iPod repair facilities?

Posted by Jon Orwant, Engineering Manager When we launched Google Patent Search in 2006, we wanted to make it easier for people to understand the world of inventions, whether they were browsing for curious patents or researching serious engineering . Recently, we’ve also worked on a number of public data search features , as well as experimental features like the Public Data Explorer . There are many places to search for individual patents — the US Patent and Trademark Office and Google Patent Search are two examples

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Free download: 10 terabytes of patents and trademarks

Citing low volume and declining reimbursement, seven-hospital St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor will close obstetric services at St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital and its 74-bed inpatient unit at St.

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St. Joseph Mercy Health System closes obstetrics, inpatient units at Livingston and Saline hospitals

Palace Sports & Entertainment released this e-mailed statement this morning: “Citi Private Bank Sports Advisory (Citi), has been engaged as financial advisor in connection with the sale of Palace Sports & Entertainment, Inc.

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BILL SHEA’S BLOG: Palace Sports confirms Citi has been hired to handle Pistons/PS&E sale

Plumber Ian Lightfoot required an identity to set him apart from the competition. Cheshire-based designer Raphael Mahon helped by creating this simple, relevant, and memorable logo with an accompanying stationery set. “The look and feel makes Ian’s identity easy to remember as well as having a personality to help stand out from the others

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Ian The Plumber

Visteon Corp., the bankrupt former auto-parts unit of Ford Motor Co., turned down Johnson Controls Inc.’s $1.25 billion offer for its interiors and electronics businesses, saying it would hurt the company’s creditors.

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Visteon Corp. rejects Johnson Controls’ $1.25 billion cash offer

For a few years now, we have been producing mobile VoIP applications .  At the same time, we have been keeping a close eye on the growing interest people around the world have for what we think is a pretty clever (and cost-effective) way to make calls. In the past few days, a couple of articles came out writing about the future of mobile VoIP.

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Mobile VoIP – what does the future hold?

A survey of Southeast Michigan voters finds House Speaker Andy Dillon as the leading choice for governor among Democrats, and a four-way “log jam” at the top of the Republican gubernatorial field.

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Survey: Andy Dillon leading choice for governor among Democrats, still no front-runner for Republicans

Posted by John Burchett, Public Policy Director of US State and Local, Latin America and Canada The Florida laws governing political advertising were first written in 1951. Back then phones looked like this and the Internet hadn’t even been invented.

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Florida modernizes campaign laws to reflect new technology

With more money than ever at stake — $250,000, including a record grand prize of $100,000 — the Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest drew a record number of registrants for its annual business plan competition, 302 compared to the…

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Coaching called part of the reward of Great Lakes biz plan competition

United Way for Southeastern Michigan expects to post its highest revenue in three years when its fiscal year ends June 30, but will still have to cut funding to some of its grantees by a total of $3 million.

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United Way grows revenue under new biz model: Grant funding up; worker giving falls

During the past week I was fortunate to be have a chance to share my perspective on “The Connected Me” in a number of media platforms including: – USA Today: Twitter power: Learning from ourselves, in real time – CTV.ca (Montreal): May 26, 2010: Jeff Pulver on the Twitter revelation/revolution – CBC Montreal – Daybreak Show on May 26th at 0640 AM. (audio clip from interview currently not available) Interview I did with w/ Kim Vallée on May 26th at webcom Montreal 2010 : – - – font size=1> Tags: 140conf , social media , webcomMT , Jeff Keni Pulver

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Jeff Keni Pulver – In the Media (Week of May 24, 2010)