There’s a problem here in Hollywood. As our economy has been suffering the past couple years, the consumer spending habits have changed. There is less “disposable” income going around, so you don’t see people wasting their money away on entertainment luxury. In layman’s terms…the restaurants, clubs, lounges, and bars, are not seeing their venues packed night after night. Here lies the problem: Although the amount of money being spent on nightlife is undoubtably decreasing (which most likely means less people are going out too), the amount of clubs opening up in Hollywood seems to be increasing at the same rate. Millions are poured into ...
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Yep that’s right…last year the U.S. spent $286.5 Billion on prescription drugs. Antidepressants ranked as the leading therapy class by dispensed prescription volume in 2007. Overall, the top five therapeutic categories — antidepressants, lipid regulators, codeine & combination pain medications, ace inhibitors and beta blockers — continued to lead the market in terms of prescription utilization [1] . Although there was a market slowdown from 2006 to 2007, the volume of prescription drugs on the market grew. The slowdown was directly related to the expiration of patents that now allows for generic brands to be created; which,in turn, makes drugs more affordable to consumers ...
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One can argue that we are still far behind the rest of the world in cell phone technology. But I think that we have been making leaps and bounds in catching up. With all these new generation of touch screen technology cell phones come out, we are also seeing a variety of interesting applications that companies are customizing for these phones. One such techonology has caught my attention, and is slowly starting to catch other people’s as well. Hotel Evolution™ was just launched earlier this summer by a Los Angeles based development company, runtriz . The application takes hotel service to the ...
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It seems silly to me that Sarah Palin would be selected as a running mate when she has virtually no international experience. I mean, she just got her passport a year ago!!! What is McCain thinking?? Then I saw this clip on an interview where they touch on foreign policies concerning Israel: Good Guys vs. Bad Guys? This isn’t Heroes, this is a very real conflict. If you take a look at the media around the world…there are many nations that look at the U.S. as being the “bad guys.” She basically is supporting the start of a new war. Haven’t we been down ...
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Being that I work in the Web Marketing world, I found this rather interesting and funny. Search Engine Optimization is a hot topic amongst businesses that contain “content rich” websites. Let me try to explain it briefly in Layman’s terms: Basically search engines all have algorithms that dictate the results of your searches (google, yahoo, etc.). There are certain things you can do to your website to help “optimize” your site so that when people search for keywords that fit within your business, your website will pop up in the search results. Companies pay thousands of dollars to web developers to consistently focus on ...
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