July 11
• "Sullivan Program to Sponsor Bakeoff"
(REGIS UNIV NEWS - 06/25/07)Formerly homeless families will compete in a brownie bakeoff led by socially responsible CEO Julius Walls of Grayston Bakery. Grayston’s mission is to employ the unemployable, while providing brownies for Ben & Jerry’s ice cream and highend cakes to the White House. The event gives Walls the opportunity to teach Denver’s formerly homeless the social mission of his company in Yonkers, New York, which is to achieve economic stability regardless of employment background and personal history.
EMERGING MEDIA/TECH• "Find Out What People are Saying Online"
(POYNTER ONLINE - 06/27/07)• Taco Bell Partners with Gizmoz and MTV to Launch Virtual Casting Call"A new Web site named Omgili scans millions of online discussions on more than 100,000 message boards and forums in order to chart online buzz on any topic.
You can also generate graphs comparing certain topics and embed them on your site or blog. This could very useful to quickly assess which topics people are actually concerned with.
(QSR MAG - 07/09/07)• "Google, Yahoo Both Working on Next Generation Social Networks"Taco Bell has partnered with Gizmoz and MTV to launch a virtual casting call: TV Me. Taco Bell is offering participants a chance to star in their own Taco Bell "avatarsment" using their own created avatar via Gizmoz.com. Using Gizmoz.com's photorealistic avatars, consumers can audition for the Taco Bell TV Me! search by simply uploading a digital photograph and getting creative.
(TECHCRUNCH - 07/09/07)Tech enthusiasts are whispering about Yahoo Mosh, a rumored new social network operated by Yahoo that is currently only available on the company's servers. Rival Google has also got a next generation social network in development: Socialstream. Neither site has officially launched, however.
Video of the Socialstream interface is below:
HEALTH CARE• "Kids' health care targeted"
(ROCKY MTN NEWS - 07/12/07)A new coalition of Colorado business and health leaders has joined an ambitious drive to get health insurance for virtually every child in the state and nation.• "Anthem Life Insurance Company Adds Additional Face Amount Offerings for Individual Term Life Policies"
President Bush wants Congress to authorize $5 billion in the next five years for the nationwide State Children's Health Insurance Program, aimed at the kids of working-class parents.
But members of the SCHIP Colorado Coalition say 10 times that amount - $50 billion - is needed to cover all states.
(INSURANCE NEWSNET - 07/10/09)• "Changing Family Structure, Increased Longevity Affecting Boomer Housing"Anthem Life Insurance Company, through affiliate company Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, today announced an increase in individual term life insurance benefit options to $15,000, $25,000, $50,000, $75,000 or $100,000 for most ages.
(NAT'L ASSOC. OF HOMEBUILDERS - 07/10/07)• "After 'Boutique' Medical Care, Can 'Boutique' Hospitals Be Far Behind?"Baby Boomers will see their family structures change as their parents age, according to experts who spoke at the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Building for Boomers & Beyond: 50+ Housing Symposium 2007. Speaking at the Symposium in Denver last month, builders, architects and trend-spotters indicated that Boomer lifestyle changes will continue to influence the home building industry for the foreseeable future.
Households headed by someone age 55 or older account for 21 percent of new home sales and 18 percent of the total new home buying market.
(WORLD HEALTH CARE BLOG - 07/10/07)The model of medical practice called by various names, such as “boutique”, “concierge”, “membership”, “patient-paid”, and “retainer” began in Seattle in the mid 1990s with a practice called “MD2” (MD-squared), where patients now pay over $10,000 per year for luxury-level access, amenities and services.
Recently a “chain” of eight hospitals in California has been described as operating under a similar approach, involving the cancellation of insurance contracts and avoidance of serving Medicare or Medicaid patients, wherever possible. The owner and operator is Prime Healthcare Services, owned by the family of Dr. Prem Reddy, described as one of the wealthiest physicians around, with two multi-million-dollar mansions and his own helicopter.
REAL ESTATE• "From boomers to Gen-Y -- a dream home for every generation"
(DENVER BIZ JOURNAL - 01/26/07)According to a recent study of more than 1,000 homeowners nationwide by the market research company GFK Rope, definite patterns have emerged of how various age groups prioritize the features they want and need in their dream home. From neighborhood location to public transportation, each generation's definition of their dream home reflects age differences and shows how style and taste shift over the years.• "Downtown Denver’s 'Fontius Building' Acquired by Evan Makovsky"
(DDP ADVISORY - 07/11/07)Less than one month after announcing the acquisition of the majority of Block 162, Evan Makovsky with Shames-Makovsky Realty Company has announced that the historic landmark Steel Building on the corner of 16th and Welton has also been acquired. Commonly known as the "Fontius Building" because of the vacant Fontius Shoe store located on the ground floor, this property has been almost completely vacant since 1988.
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