Artificial Pancreas Closed Loop System for Children

Tandem has been working for a while on making their closed loop system (insulin pump and continuous glucose monitor) more automated. This facilitates usage by younger children. They are getting some very promising results.

Job Opportunities

I am currently looking for a designer/production artist to handle heavily templated work in the high technology field. Specifically, the production artist for this project needs to be using the following tools on a regular basis:        – Adobe Suite including InDesign      – Photoshop      – Illustrator. The creative team […]

Patient Centered Medical Homes Improves Diabetic Care

Not surprisingly, a coordinated approach to diabetic care improves outcomes. As a chronic condition, diabetes requires a multidisciplinary medical approach and one that involves the patient in a significant way. This Joint Commission report is strong evidence that this approach works.

East Bay United: Champions in Dublin and in Berkeley

 East Bay United, from left to right, KayKay Alexander, Anton Haynes, DMarcus Thompson, Stan Caldwell, Art Alexander, Dan Zehr, Reggie Smith, Paul Reiter and Chris Ballard (not shown).  Undefeated in the Berkeley league, and champions in both Berkeley and Dublin, CA, EBU continues to dominate the Bay Area leagues. Sunday night was a hard fought […]

Let’s Get Stupid: the Free Market Edition

  It has been an unprecedented year for the "Let's Get Stupid" game.  This is a real GM product. For more great business ideas of 2009 check out this month's Fortune magazine.

New League, Same Result

Since several of the Pro-Am teams have found a home in the Hayward Basketball League, Dorvez and I have been looking at that league for a while as a possible new venue for East Bay United. We finally signed up for the Winter 2009 season and had our first game this past Sunday. The result was […]

Another Friday Late Night Title Match

Erv Anderson, D-Money, Coach Duff, Paul Reiter, Dorvez Barnett, Ty Witherspoon, Tim Wilder, and Anton Haynes (sitting in front) Another Berkeley Late Night Championship brought to you by East Bay United this past Friday, November 21st. This season stood out for a new reason: our success brought out some new competitors, new teams that came into the league […]

EB United Wins Again

It's our nature. We win basketball games. D Block came into the league expressly to knock us off our throne. They couldn't. Despite missing our lead scorer, Teion Conner, we dominated every aspect of the game. Our bigs, Paul, June, Erv and Tyrone, finally cleaned up the boards they way they should for every game. […]

More on Obama Campaign

Now that Sen. Obama has succeeded in his historic bid for the Presidency, we can look back on his campaign as a model of how to position and roll out a candidacy. Whether he realizes it or not, Obama ran a practically flawless marketing campaign, so successful that Ad Age named him Marketer of the […]

East Bay United Halloween Update

After a lackluster game two weeks ago and a nail-biter last week, East Bay United showed its true colors with a dominant game Halloween Night against People' s Park. Gone were the turnovers of the past several games, gone was the uncertainty on the offensive side. With a final score of 84-55, the team finally found its […]