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	<title>NCTimes.com Blogs &#187; Minding Your Business</title>
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		<title>Javo Raises $4.1 Million Beans</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vista&#8217;s Javo Beverage Co., has raised $4.1 million in a private placement, the company announced in a Nov. 19 filing..
Javo makes coffee and tea for vending  machines and other drink dispensers.
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		<title>Stanley Crooke Gives Isis Shareholders A Pep Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isis Pharmaceuticals has had a rough ride with its flagship drug for lowering cholesterol, mipomersen. The drug has shown effectiveness in reducing lipids in patients with a hereditary disease that causes extremely high levels of cholesterol. But safety concerns have sent the stock down.
Despite progress in Phase III clinical trials for mipomersen, Isis stock has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cal State San Marcos To Launch Biotech Lab Tech Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stepping up its focus on biotech, California State University San Marcos Extended Learning will begin offering a Biotechnology Laboratory Technician Certificate program.
According to CSUSM&#8217;s press release, &#8220;The program is specifically designed to provide program participants with the skills necessary to secure entry-level positions as biotechnology lab technicians or research assistants. Consisting of five classes (16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Project Success Method,&#8221; Clinton Padgett</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Rowe</dc:creator>
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San Diego-based project consultant Clinton Padgett offers a step-by-step how-to guide on managing a project from idea to completion. 
How important is careful stewardship of a project? Consider an enterprise the reviewer was deeply engaged in three years ago &#8212;- a $10 million project to create an ultra-modern digital television studio. The project manager resisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Legislation In A Nutshell</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4883</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a quick overview of what California&#8217;s new water bill package means, I can do no better than point you to the blog post by Steve Doyle of Brookfield Homes.
There&#8217;s lots more devilishly intricate parts of this legislation, of course, but this overview lets you grok the purpose of each of the five bills.
Doyle helpfully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homebuyer tax credit passes house</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4879</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have the vote count yet, but the Mortgage Bankers Association says the House of Representatives passed the extension of the homebuyer tax credit . Now all the bill awaits is a presidential signature. 
Update: The bill passed the House 403-12. The Senate passed the same bill yesterday 98-0. 
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		<title>Senate approves homebuyer credit extension</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate passed the bill containing the homebuyer tax credit expansion and extension unanimously on Wednesday, 98-0. 
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		<title>Update to the homebuyers extension: Delayed possibly till Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like a possible extension of the homebuyer tax credit could potentially take another couple of days to come to a vote: 
The following comes from Congress Daily, which has been quoted by Progress Illinois:
Monday&#8217;s vote cut off debate on the substitute amendment from Majority Leader Reid and Finance Chairman Max Baucus adding the tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate moves home buyer tax credit froward crucial step, could pass tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4836</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Congress will be extending that homebuyer tax credit afterall. First time homebuyers, known to the IRS as people who haven&#8217;t owned a home in the last three years, have been frantically trying to get into contract on a house in time to get an $8,000 federal tax credit due to expire on Nov. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frustrated home buyer, frustrated no more</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4770</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got a voice mail from Jessica Duarte, one of three frustrated home buyers I mentioned in my story in today&#8217;s paper. She was pleased to tell me that the article must have been good luck: Her bid was accepted on the condo she&#8217;s pictured looking at in the paper. I think I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCSD Ranks 6th Largest Fed Research $$ Recipient &#8212; Again</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4737</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As universities go, The House That Roger Revelle Built is a puppy, founded just four decades ago. But it&#8217;s one of the top dogs in pulling in federal research dollars. And according to the National Science Foundation, UCSD has once again ranked 6th nationwide. 
UCSD got $491 million in federal R&#38;D money and spent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modest Signs of Biotech Rebound</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is my early report from Biocom&#8217;s investor conference today and Tuesday).
By BRADLEY J. FIKES
SAN DIEGO &#8212;- Biotech&#8217;s golden allure is mostly tarnished for investors, who have crammed into the technology sector chasing after the Apples and Googles. But there&#8217;s some signs of a modest turnaround, experts said Monday at a life sciences investors forum.
Biotech [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New home buyer credit&#8217;s uncertain future</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4706</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the discussion of extending the new home buyer federal tax credit, it seems like no one remembered to check in with the administration. The credit is very popular among congress members, several of whom have proposed various kinds of extensions. 
But Shaun Donovan, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told a Senate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Start Social Search Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven research centers around the country are sharing a $12.2 million grant to create a kind of Facebook for scientists. The goal is to help scientists find potential research collaborators, speeding up the process of scientific discovery.
The two-year grant, from the National Center for Research Resources, goes to a consortium led by the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS looking into possible new home buyer tax credit fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4698</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[the IRS is looking into 100,000 suspicious claims for the tax credit for qualified home buyers, the Wall Street Journal reports. As I wrote over the weekend, home buyers are leaping in to the market to take advantage of a potential $8,000 federal tax credit for anyone who has not owned their own home for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Then again, maybe there&#8217;s still a shadow inventory danger?</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4693</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote a story based on a report from ForeclosureRadar arguing that there was no such thing as a shadow inventory, meaning that there was no glut of houses banks were secreting away for future sale in a better market. 
Before my story ran, I put in a call to real estate economist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New real estate reporter here</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4691</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Wolff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all. 
The last real estate post on this blog was from my predecessor Zach Fox, lo these many moons ago. Well, I&#8217;m putting an end to that lengthy hiatus as of today. 
My name is Eric Wolff, I come to the North County Times from San Diego CityBeat, a free weekly down in San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitors target San Diego SpaWar cyber security</title>
		<link>http://www.nctimes.com/app/blogs/wp/?p=4683</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Diego County is facing tougher competition in the growing cyber security sector, and could lose business if it&#8217;s complacent, local business leaders said.
With the Obama administration pouring billions into the technology sector, areas around the country are competing fiercely, said Duane Roth, director of the technology entrepreneur group Connect, and Michael Jones, president of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insulin, circadian clock genetic link found</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LA JOLLA &#8212;- Genes that regulate insulin also influence the body&#8217;s circadian clock, according to a study by scientists at UCSD and the University of Pennsylvania.
The finding help explain links between sleeping disorders and development of other major health problems. Moreover, the scientists say, the finding provides insight into possible treatments.
The study, published online Thursday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cymer raises earnings estimates as sales increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO &#8212;- Cymer Inc. raised its revenue estimates for the third quarter Monday, citing increased demand for its light sources, used in making semiconductor chips.
Cymer said it now expects third quarter revenues to increase by about 30 percent from $62 million in the second quarter. It had previously estimated an increase of about 15 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies cripple HIV</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO &#8212;- The struggle to find an AIDS vaccine has been a heartbreaking record of failure. But researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and two biotech companies have made a discovery that could at last put the effort on the right path.
The researchers have found two powerful antibodies that attack HIV, the virus that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reptile, Human Heart Evolution Genetic Link Found</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bradley Fikes</dc:creator>
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So the warm blood flows
Through the large four-chambered heart
Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have
&#8212; &#8220;Mammal&#8221;, They Might Be Giants
So just how did mammals get their four-chambered heart? From a genetic factor linked to heart development in turtles and other reptiles, say, scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, located at UC San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Index gets a Little Lift</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bagley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several pieces of good economic news &#8212; and not-quite-as-bad-as-expected economic news &#8212; have prompted economists to start speculating about how rapidly the U.S. economy will recover. 
Generally, they talk about recovery in terms of the shape that job numbers, personal incomes and GDP values will take on graphs. Will they look like the letter &#8220;V,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does time look like when you don&#8217;t have a job?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Bagley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interactive graphic on the New York Times&#8217; Web site shows how people spend the 24 hours of each day. You can alter the view to see time use by the U.S. population as a whole, by employed people, by unemployed people, young people, and so forth. No big surprises here: People aged 15-24 spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scripps discovers swimming sea worms with &#8216;green bombs&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demonstrating that the deep sea still holds mysteries, researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography have discovered transparent swimming worms that drop glowing &#8220;green bombs.&#8221;
The stranger-than-fiction worms were found in waters between 5,900 feet and 12,140 feet deep, mainly off the California coast. Measuring from 0.7 to 3.6 inches, the worms swim with clusters of bristles [...]]]></description>
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