Kevin Systrom On Pulling Twitter Cards Integration: We Want Images Viewed On Instagram.com

Instagram has turned off Twitter Cards integration, leaving Instagram users on the short-winded social network with cropped, less-than-perfect copies of their masterwork in iPhonography. Kevin Systrom, Instagram's founder and CEO, spoke on stage at LeWeb 12 about it today, saying that "this is an evolution of where we want links to our content to go."

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Snow, cold missing across much of the US

TODAY's Al Roker reports that temperatures across the country are much warmer than usual for this time of year, with some areas experiencing highs that are 20 to 30 degrees above normal.

By Miguel Llanos, NBC News

If you like your early Decembers mild and with just a touch of snow, this one's for you: Not only have temperatures been warm in many parts, just 7 percent of the continental U.S. is currently covered with snow ? a much smaller footprint than the 32 percent this time last year.

Some Midwest cities known for snow haven't seen any so far this season. Moreover, due to a warm spring, they are?closing in on?their records for most days without snow.?

Chicago has gone 275 days without measurable snow through Tuesday, weather.com reported. The record, set in 1994, is 280 days. The city's average snow total by Dec. 4 is 2.2 inches.?Milwaukee, Wis., and Des Moines, Iowa, are on similar tracks.

Omaha, Neb., on Wednesday tied its no-snow record of 285 days.

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Data compiled by the National Weather Service?since 2003 show that no other Dec. 5 was in single digits in terms of snow cover???and 2005 was up to 48 percent.

As far as temperatures go, more than 1,600 daily warm temperatures were tied or broken during the week of Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, weather.com noted.?

Wednesday's forecast included temperatures "anywhere from 10 to almost 30 degrees above normal" in some places, NBC News meteorologist Al Roker said on TODAY. Cities in that range include Billings, Mont.; Amarillo, Texas; Tucson, Ariz.; Columbia, S.C.; and St. Louis.

On Tuesday, record highs for a Dec. 4 were set in various cities, including: Syracuse, N.Y. (70 degrees); Flint, Mich. (65); Georgetown, Del. (73); and Morgantown, W.Va. (69).

Cold air has been "trapped in Canada and Alaska," weather.com said. But, starting Friday, the Midwest and Plains should turn cooler.

By early next week temperatures will be below freezing and the system could produce "the season's first significant, plowable snow in many locations," weather.com stated.

Chicago, which reached 70 degrees on Monday, might even get snow, but don't expect it on the East Coast.

"Depending on how the storm develops, snow and wind could continue into Monday over the Great Lakes, including Chicago," weather.com noted. "By the time the frontal system gets into the East, rain looks likely to fall in most areas, including the I-95 urban corridor."

In Minnesota, locals looking forward to the first measurable snow this season include the owner of a store that sells snow blowers, NBC affiliate KARE11.com reported.

"Six inches would be great, just anything we can get that people have to get out in the driveway and clear the snowfall," said owner Ed Veits.

Watch KARE11.com's report on the lack of snow in Minnesota

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Business Networking Tomorrow Night in Waimea | Big Island Now

The Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly informal networking business event Business First! on Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Waimea at the Red Water Caf?.

KKCC holds Business First! on the first Tuesday of every month in the Waimea area for North Hawaii businesses.

The informal networking event is free and open to people who do business in North Hawaii or want to do business in North Hawaii.

Because the event is informal, it is a good opportunity to network with businesses both within and beyond your industry.

Red Water Caf?, located at 65-1299 Kawaihae Road, is in the space previously known?as Edelweiss restaurant and later as Fujimamas.

Registration is not required. Call KKCC at 329-1758 for more information.

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My Top 11 Healthcare Predictions For 2013 | Enabling Healthy ...

December 2, 2012 by George Van Antwerp

It?s always fun to predict what will happen in the next year. No one is ever right, but you can hope to be directionally correct. With that in mind, here?s a few of my thoughts for what will happen in 2013?

1. Reform (PPACA?aka ObamaCare) will happen. While the Republicans will fight it, with Obama?s re-election and the Supreme Court decision. Reform will continue to happen. The states will mess up the Exchanges which will create many issues, but private exchanges will come to the ?rescue?.
2. ?Big Data? will be a focus at every healthcare company. What data to store? How to mine the data? What data to integrate? How to bring in unstructured data such as physician?s notes? What to do with consumer reported and consumer tracked data from all the different devices?
3. Physicians will emerge back in the power seat. With Accountable Care Organizations and Patient Centered Medical Homes, consumers are finally becoming more aware of all the shortcomings in our sick care system. They trust their physicians although somewhat blindly given ongoing challenges with evidence-based care and quality which are often the result of our Fee For Service system (too little time) combined with an abundance of new research happening concurrently.
4. mHealth will be the buzz word and exciting space as entrepreneurs from outside healthcare and people with personal healthcare experiences will attempt to capitalize on the technology gap and chaos within the health system. This will create lots of innovation, but adoption will lag as consumers struggle with 15,000+ apps and the sickest patients (often older patients) are the slowest to adopt.
5. Device proliferation?will go hand in hand with mHealth and with the Quantified Self movement. This will create general health devices, fitness devices, diabetes solutions, hypertension solutions, and many other devices for wellness and home monitoring for elderly patients. Like mHealth, this will foster lots of innovation but be overwhelming for consumers and lead to opportunities for device agnostic solutions for capturing data and integrating that data for payors and providers to use.
6. The focus on incentives will shift in two ways. Technology vendors will begin to look more and more at the gamification of healthcare and how to use gaming theory and technology to drive initial and sustained engagement. At the same time, the recent ruling will allow employers to shift from rewards to ?penalties? in the form of premium differentials where patients who don?t do certain things such as take biometric screenings or engage with a case manager will pay more. In 2014 and 2015, this shift will be from penalties with activity to penalties tied to outcomes.
7. Consumer based testing will drive greater regulation. With the focus on home based testing (e.g., HIV or High Cholesterol) and the increased interest in genetic testing especially when tied to a medication, the FDA and other government agencies will have to address this market with new regulations to close gaps such as life insurance companies being able to force disclosure of genetic testing in order to get coverage (even though the testing isn?t necessarily deterministic).
8. Clinics will prepare for 2014.?With the increase number of consumers being covered in 2014, there will be an access challenge for patients to see a provider. This will drive buildout and utilization of health clinics such as TakeCare or MinuteClinic. Clinics will have to look at how to adapt their workflow to create a patient relationship which will create potential integration points with TeleHealth and bring back up the issue of whether they should or could replace the traditional Primary Care Provider (PCP) relationship or not.
9. Telemedicine will hit a tipping point and begin to Cross the Chasm. They now have better technology and adoption within major employers. This will start to create more and more business cases and social awareness of the solution. With utilization, we will see great adoption and the increasing use of smart phones for healthcare will drive telemedicine into an accelerated growth stage.
10. Transparency solutions will continue to be a hot area with CastLight and Change Healthcare?leading the way. Their independence and consumer engagement approaches based on critical moments (i.e., pointing out how to save money on Rxs just before a refill) and using multiple channels will show high ROI which will also increase broader healthcare awareness making them part of the population health solution.
11. Generics will no longer be a talked about issue. With generic fill rates running so high across different groups and being front page news, PBMs, pharmacies, and pharma will truly begin to move forward to embrace the specialty market with a clear vengeance (at least in the US).

There are still a few longer term trends that I?m watching, but I don?t think that 2013 is the primary year for them.

1. The evolving role of pharmacists within the Medical Home and with vaccines.
2. A significant shift from mail order to 90-day at retail fulfilled by massive central fill facilities.
3. Pharma?co-opetition where they begin to collaborate at the disease state level realizing the a rising tide is good for all boats.
4. Integration of data from all types of solutions and actions into workflow triggers that automatically create new events within the care management infrastructure using Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management.

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Oregon, K-State to meet in Fiesta Bowl

Kansas State players celebrate after their NCAA college football game against Texas Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, in Manhattan, Kan. Kansas State won the game 42-24. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kansas State players celebrate after their NCAA college football game against Texas Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, in Manhattan, Kan. Kansas State won the game 42-24. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein (7) celebrates with tight end Travis Tannahill (80) after Klein scored a touchdown during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Texas Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, in Manhattan, Kan. Kansas State won the game 42-24. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Oregon coach Chip Kelly talks with his players during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Oregon State in Corvallis, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Oregon running back Kenjon Barner (24) heads down field ahead of a pack of Oregon State defenders during the first half of their NCAA college football game in Corvallis, Ore., Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) ? Oregon and Kansas State were atop the BCS standings just two weeks ago, each needing two wins for a likely trip to the BCS championship.

Those plans were derailed quickly with a loss on the same day, but they ended up with a nice consolation prize: A trip to the desert to face each other in the Fiesta Bowl.

And it should be a doozy.

Nos. 4 and 5 in the BCS standings, two of the nation's best offenses, a pair of Heisman Trophy contenders ? yep, the Fiesta Bowl has done it again, pulling off a marquee matchup for the second straight year.

"(It's) not just the rankings, but type of teams, the kinds of exciting plays and players that they put on the field," Fiesta Bowl executive director Robert Shelton said Sunday night. "We're thrilled."

The fans should be too, again.

The 2012 Fiesta Bowl was certainly a memorable one: Oklahoma State vs. Stanford, Nos. 3 and 4 in the BCS, dynamic teams with two of the nation's best quarterbacks in Brandon Weeden and the Cardinal's Andrew Luck.

The game matched the hype, with the Cowboys outlasting Stanford 41-38 in overtime, giving the Fiesta Bowl a much-needed boost after nearly losing its BCS status due to financial improprieties and a dud of a game in 2011.

This year's game has the potential to one-up 2012.

Oregon (11-1) and its swarm-of-bees offense has been one of the nation's best teams under coach Chip Kelly, reaching the BCS title game in 2011 and winning the Rose Bowl for the first time in 95 years last season.

This year, the Ducks are loaded with fleet-footed players, rolling up yards in big chunks, scoring in bunches.

They have one of the most dynamic players in the country in running back Kenjon Barner, a Heisman Trophy hopeful, and quarterback Marcus Mariota had no trouble handling the pressure of running Oregon's potent attack as a freshman.

Oregon, No. 5 in the AP Top 25, finished the season second nationally with 50.8 points per game, fourth in total offense at 550 yards and will be making its fourth straight BCS bowl appearance. The Ducks also played at University of Phoenix Stadium when they lost to Auburn in the 2011 BCS title game.

"It's an amazing challenge," Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said. "They're extremely talented and well-coached collectively. Offensively, they go faster than the speed of light, so to speak."

Snyder hasn't done too bad for himself in the Little Apple.

Orchestrator of what may be the biggest turnaround in college football history his first go-round in Manhattan, Snyder came out of retirement to re-energize K-State again in 2009 ? in the stadium named after him, no less.

He led the Wildcats to the Pinstripe Bowl in 2010 and followed, after a 7-0 start, with a 10-win season and a trip to the 2011 Cotton Bowl.

This season, No. 7 Kansas State (11-1) opened some eyes by trouncing Miami in its second game and started to draw national attention by knocking off Oklahoma in Norman on Sept. 22. Behind the do-everything quarterback Collin Klein, another of the Heisman favorites, and a tough defense, the Wildcats kept piling up wins to become No. 1 in the BCS standings on Nov. 11 for the first time in school history.

The Wildcats averaged 40.7 points per game, 10th nationally, and have an opportunistic defense that led the nation in turnover margin at plus-21.

Kansas State is playing in its second BCS bowl, with the 2004 Fiesta Bowl.

"Obviously, the job that Bill Snyder has done in Kansas State, his first tour, now his second tour, he'll go down in history as one of the greatest college football coaches this game has ever seen," Oregon coach Chip Kelly said. "He is a model for how to run your program does an outstanding job."

Originally scheduled to play each other this season before the game fell through, Kansas State and Oregon were atop the BCS rankings after defending national champion Alabama lost to Texas A&M on Nov. 10.

All the Wildcats and Ducks had to do was win their final two games and they would almost assuredly play in the BCS title game.

They ended up losing on the same day, turning the BCS on end.

Kansas State fell flat under the pressure, run over 52-24 by unranked Baylor. The Ducks couldn't get their high-flying offense going against Stanford and lost 17-14 in overtime.

That moved Notre Dame up to No. 1 and put the SEC back in the BCS championship picture.

With its win over No. 3 Georgia this weekend, the Crimson Tide earned a spot in Miami on Jan. 7 to face the Fighting Irish for the national title.

Kansas State bounced back to beat Texas 42-24 on Saturday night, sending Wildcat fans rushing onto the field after the school earned its third conference championship in 117 years.

Oregon closed out its regular season a week earlier, rolling over No. 16 Oregon State 48-24 in the Civil War to keep its BCS bowl hopes alive.

The losses prevented the Wildcats and Ducks from playing for a national championship, but they sure gave the Fiesta Bowl a boost with another matchup that could be the 1A to the title game.

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