CloudAve (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Everyone wants to be a platform these days. And they are popping up faster than I can keep track of them. Facebook became a platform , enabling application developers to develop on top of Facebook. Next came the iPhone. Salesforce.com offered Force.com as a platform. Twitter became a platform. A few weeks back PayPal became a platform . AmEx bought Revolution Money last week, based in part on the...
oneXtwo Horse racing news (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The going will be very heavy at Chepstow today and also very soft at Wetherby. Punters are advised to check for non-runners, especially at Chepstow, where it appears that some of the jumps may be omitted. Our idea of the best bet of the day is the ex-German Loom (David Pipe/ Tom Scudamore), who runs in the selling hurdle there at 14.40 CET. Loom was a major hope for Baron Ullmann in younger years,...
Contract Pharma Breaking News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
PharmaNet Development Group has been selected to conduct and manage Scancell Ltd.’s Phase I/II trial with SCIB1 scheduled for 1H10. SCIB1 is a DNA ImmunoBody vaccine for the treatment of melanoma. David Evans, chairman of Scancell, commented, “We are delighted to have selected PharmaNet to manage Scancell’s Phase I/II trial program with SCIB1. PharmaNet’s extensive experience,...
The Brooks Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Appointment to the British Journal for the History of Philosophy of an Associate Editor responsible for Ancient Philosophy submissions Following the very sad death of David Evans earlier this year, who had been Associate Editor for the BJHP for little more than a year, the Journal is looking to appoint an Associate Editor to take responsibility for submissions on ancient philosophy. The person appointed...
Deep Politics Monitor (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Not Sylvia Night - November 11, 2009 That place, of course, is the world´s financial market. "Human Caused Climate Change" is a financial scam, so is the "Peak Oil" paradigm of catastrophic energy shortages in the near future. Oil and natural gas are not scarce, but actually abundant energy resources. They are also most likely of non-biological origin, as Russian scientists...
Australian Politics (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
BIG GREENIE ROUNDUP FIRST BELOW Five current articles below Zeg In his latest offering, conservative Australian cartoonist ZEG draws our attention to a video by an Australian Liberal Party Senator Cory Bernardi that pisses all over proposed global warming laws Open Letter to the Australian Prime Minister from Dr David Evans The letter below appears on the site of Science Speak, a scientific modeling...
Covering Health (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
In a special report titled "Big Pharma's Crime Spree," David Evans of Bloomberg Markets writes that pharmaceutical companies continue to promote drugs for uses not approved by the FDA, despite paying billions of dollars in fines and penalties. Pfizer and Lilly lead a parade of U.S. companies that have paid $7 ...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Pfizer Broke the Law by Promoting Drugs for Unapproved Uses Share Business Exchange Twitter Facebook | Email | Print | A A A By David Evans Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Prosecutor Michael Loucks remembers clearly when lawyers for Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug company, looked across the table and promised it wouldn’t break the law again. It was January 2004, and the attorneys were negotiating...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Josh Wright and Adam Levitin have been going back and forth about Wright’s paper (co-authored with David Evans) about the predicted impact of the adoption of the Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) on the availability of credit, economic growth, and new business formation (many new businesses rely on their founder’s personal consumer credit, such as [...]
Credit Slips (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a short critique of one piece of a long study written by David Evans and Joshua Wright about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and funded by the American Bankers Association. The related blog...
The Daily Reckoning Australia (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
One quick note about this: there is obviously plenty of inflation in the prices you pay every day. But most consumer price indices are rigged to understate inflation, as our colleague David Evans pointed out yesterday in Canberra at the Gold Standard Institute conference in Canberra. Trimmed medians...hedonic adjustments...
LAist (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
For fans of a particular kind of sixties music, the Nuggets series can seem like a longtime friend, one with a really good record collection. The guy knows his stuff. He combs through the bins of 7-inch ephemera and peeks inside every rockin' garage in America so you don't have to, and puts together reliably excellent mixtapes according to whatever theme was picked that day. Rhino's recent release...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
WESH-Channel 2 anchor Jim Payne asked the pertinent question: Did Roy Kronk's firing have anything to do with the Casey Anthony case? "In a roundabout way, yes," WESH's Bob Kealing said. "David Evans, his attorney, says Kronk sustained a workplace...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Shocker: Dems Cave To Boxer On Coal | Sweetness & Light (By the way, note that every quote in this article is from a Democrat. That is what the Politico means by ‘bi-partisan.’) World War 350 - Henry Payne - Planet Gore on National Review Online With temperatures on Friday hovering in the low 40s — some 20 degrees below normal in a Midwest that has seen record lows all year —...
An Honest Climate Debate (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Manufacturing Money and Global Warming Written by Dr. David Evans SPPI, 27 October 2009 Money is power. You can use money to get people to do things for you, and to obtain real stuff. Most people will do almost anything, if you offer them enough money. In the current financial system, money is manufactured by central and private [...]
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