30 Kasım 2012 Cuma

Parkinson’s Sufferer Wins Six Figure Payout Against Glaxo Over the Psychological Side Effects Created by Requip - Gay Sex and Gambling Addict

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This took place in France and the video is in French but English text is included throughout part of it.  He began taking the medication in 2003 and was a former bank manager and father of two children.  By putting ads on the web for sex he ended up being raped.  His behavior returned to normal after quitting the drug and he read about the effect on the web which were disclosed in 2006.  BD



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A Parkinson's sufferer has won a six figure pay-out against a drug giant after his medication turned him into a 'gay sex and gambling addict'.

Didier Jambart had been a well respected man, an upstanding member of the community in Nantes, western France, and a loving father and husband.

But within two years of taking the drug Requip heimage was so addicted to both his vices he sold his children's toys to raise money and advertised himself on the internet for sex. He has now been given £160,000 in damages after a court in Rennes, France, upheld his claims.

The formerly well respected bank manager, local councillor and a father of two from Nantes in western France, had tried to commit suicide eight times after he turned into a sex-crazed gambling addict.

He told the court that he had emptied his bank account, sold his children's toys and stolen money from work colleagues, friends and neighbours

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2240249/Didier-Jambart-said-Parkinsons-drug-gay-sex-addict-awarded-160k-French-court.html#ixzz2DesxpnbQ


HealthTap Buys Avvo Doctor Rating and Referral Business and Website

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If you read here often enough you know I’m not a big fan of these websites simply because they have so many errors and dump it back on the doctors to have to go to all their various sites and fix their profiles which few of them have time for.  There are better services where they actually opt in and join to where they get something back like an appointment service or other items.  It was not only this site but a few others like Healthgrades who now is owned by a marketing firm so maybe they get marketed better. 

Avvo Physician Rating Service Can’t Get Accurate Information Listed on Doctors - One OC Oncologist Sitting in Jail for Fraud

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I guess we shall see if there’s any improvement and the lawyer referral business at Avvo remains as is. 

 

State boards are part of the issue but to maintain such a site you should be trolling the web everyday to update the data base and every time I visit one of these sites the first or second reference I look up, errors to include being on staff at hospitals doctors have never worked in, dead doctors and so forth.  I used to be a data base person so I have a bit of an idea as to what should be done.  BD

http://www.avvo.com/health-information?referring_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avvo.com%2Ffind-a-doctor


One More Reason To Repeal the Medical Device Tax – Device Companies May Sell Your Data to Pay Their Taxes – Money Has to Come From Somewhere And They Create Jobs in the US

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Let’s use some common sense here and I have been a big advocate of removing the tax and putting it where it belongs and guess what,image this plays right in there so more of your data is at risk of being sold.  This is a very profitable business where companies make millions and billions selling data and it’s very little overhead, hire the programmers, write the algorithms and format your data and stick your for sale sign up.  Device that manufacturer in the US bring jobs here, hands down and we are shooting ourselves in the foot.  Don’t take my word for this, watch the video.  Listen to the lady from Medtronic who explains the process.  They don’t want to do a website and your doctor does not have time to educate you either as they don’t have time. 

800 Medical Device Companies Send Letters to Congress Regarding Excise Tax on Devices–Suggested Alternative Has Been Here At the Medical Quack for Months..Tax the Data Sellers Instead

Right now Medtronic, as stated in the video is not selling web data but they are certainly looking at it to sell to insurers and other health entities, vague in response to a degree as there’s nothing moving here…yet.  Again they can huge chunks of money selling your data to pay the taxes and then some as Walgreens made short of $800 million in 2010 selling data.  So if the tax goes through it would be a business decision to sell your data and once more the consumer is screwed.  You have to look at this as business and go beyond talking if you want to ever get your data.  It is what it is.  It’s all in this video. 





Why do you think corporate profits are at such all time highs…because of the billions made selling your data.  I have blogged about this so many times and then we have the folks crying about science and NIH funds, well taxing the data sellers is the answer there too so there’s a lot of cures for a lot of money shortages with taxing data sellers.  It just makes sense.  So Hugo in the video listen up here this is to help you and all of us.



This is hard for most to see because it is technology based profits and yes it does exist and when it comes to “risk” assessments for companies to get set up and mine and/or sell, the risk low, get good code and queries written is the big risk and then find your market.  imageWe see that on the web all the time with spun marketing.  Shall we review the spun marketing FICO does to tell if you will be medication compliant with their horrible mismatch of data and algorithms designed to make money only?  Watch that vide on the left hand side of this blog and see how duped you really are…Context is everything and there’s a sucker born every minute, sadly.  I know this sounds like an odd reason to support repeal of the device tax but folks this is reality and the algorithms that move money and and give you parameters on what you can and can’t do in most of your life anymore are running on servers 24/7 and some of them attack you. 

For more in formation in that area review the 47 chapters of the Attack of the Killer Algorithms and watch the video at the end or just watch all the videos on the left hand side of this blog, you will get educatedTime for consumers to become bed partners with the device companies, it’s a business strategy and will be a win win all the way around if the data sellers get taxed instead to keep this manageable and keep enough tangible companies operating in the US so we have JOBS.  BD 

Attack of the Killer Algorithms–Digest & Links for All Chapters–on How Math and Crafty Formulas Today Running on Servers 24/7 Make Life Impacting Decisions About You

I hate to say I told you so on data selling but I did 3 years ago and it’s developed pretty much like I said with consumers in the hole with privacy and any control over their own data.  Here’s the links.  I worked with data and wrote code and others like me too can visualize this stuff and probably even do it a lot better, they do on Wall Street.  BD   

 

Fitbit Wireless Device Monitors your Daily Activity and Movements Released


Patients Want their Data–This Guy Hacked a Fitbit to Get it Along With The API Algorithms


Fitbit Profile Sexual Activity Shows Up In Google Search Results–Default Privacy Settings Allow Search Engines To Post


http://live.wsj.com/#!28B6E0AD-8506-40B2-A659-20A9B696F524


Consultants Without Borders, the American Professional Political Consultant - The Daily Show

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This is so funny and one of the best satires they have put in a while!  Making the best of incredible Llama ads!  BD

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Jason Jones investigates American political strategists who teach foreign consultants how to disrespect their clients and spread unwanted American-style democracy.

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The LuLac Edition #2280, November 29th, 2012

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Mitt Romney and President Obama in the Oval. 

THE BIG LUNCH 

Mitt Romney got to the White House in November but it wasn’t for a tour of the living quarters. Romney met with his opponent President Obama for a quiet sit down not open to the prying eyes of reporters. Romney had an eventful arrival when a man rushed him and was escorted away by the Secret Service. Gave him sort of a Presidential feel for the job, ya think? There were the usual press platitudes about the bitterness of the campaign subsiding. It was reported the two shook hands and Romney wished well for the country and the President in the next four years. Romney is a very talented businessman. He owes nothing to the Republican party that before the first debate did everything to promote themselves for 2016. His staff also weren’t the best braintrust. In this economic crisis, having Romney sit on the sidelines is like having Willie Mays on the bench in an all star game. Romney should be asked then he should accept for the country to provide his input on creating those 12c million jobs he was talking about. If this happened, “Romnesia” would give way to “Rom-work-now”. 

WILKES BARRE BUDGET 

Budget talks are being bandied about in Wilkes Barre city. Mayor Tom Leighton is trying to put together a budget that will ease the pain of the taxpayers. but he isn’t getting any cooperation from the city Unions worried more about their jobs than the future of the city. This I budget number crunching time, right? Then why aren’t members of the City Council chipping in by donating part of their salary? And if this is all about money and budgets and fiscal stuff, why is Karen Ceppa Hirko, the losing candidate for Controller more visible than the duly elected officer, Kathy Kane? Quick, someone wave a consulting fee check and she just might emerge out of hiding. If she has shown up at all.
First Gubernatorial candidate for 2014, John Hanger. 

HANGER IN  

Former State DPW Secretary John n Hanger has announced that he will be a candidate for Governor in 2014. He is running early making sure that he gets the jump in what might be a crowded Democratic field. Treasurer Rob McCord and businessman Tom Knox have expr5esed interest.Hanger has decent name recognition in the state and is going to be canvassing the state two years before the general election. In his announcement, Hanger said he vowed to make Tom Corbett a one termer and break the cycle of eight years rule by each party. The tradition started when Edward Martin was elected in 1946 and then followed by fellow Republican John Fine. Since then the office has changed parties every 8 years. Corbett’s popularity is ebbing back up but Hanger thinks he can be beat. If there is not a big primary field from the Democrats, then he might have a shot. 

MELLOW SENTENCING FRIDAY 

Former Senator Bob Mellow will be sentenced in federal court tomorrow. He can get up to two years in jail. My prediction is the Judge will split the difference and give him a year in a minimum security prison. Maybe he might be in the same facility as his cousin Fred Rosetti. 

MEDIA MATTERS 

SUNDAY MAGAZINE 


This Week on Sunday Magazine A special encore edition of Sunday Magazine features Brian Hughes' interview from October with business and workplace expert Alexandra Levit, regarding the gap between the skills employee have versus the skills prospective employers are looking for. And an encore of Brian's May interview with the Rev. Ronald Weeks from the Keystone Rescue Mission Alliance, about how you can help the rescue missions in Scranton & Wilkes Barre in their efforts to help the poor, especially during the holiday season. Sunday Magazine, Sunday morning at 5am on Great Country 93.7, 5:30am on 97BHT, 6am on 97.9X, 6:25am on Magic 93 and 7am on True Oldies 590, WARM. 

ECTV TV

Tis the season for the annual presentation of "The Nutcracker" at Marywood University in Scranton and Joanne Arduino, Director of the Dance Studio at the Scranton Ballet will join Judge Tom Munley and David DeCosmo on ECTV Live the week of December 3rd. to talk about the show and what it takes to put it together. ECTV Live is presented at Noon, 6pm, and Midnight each day on Comcast Ch19 to promote quality of life events and programs in northeastern Pennsylvania.
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1967 

The Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour in the US as a full album. The songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, Baby, You're a Rich Man and Hello, Goodbye. Release as a double EP will not take place in the UK until December. Who knew that 45 years later, "Hello Goodbye" would be my ringtone on a phone that is three times smaller than my first grade pencil case!

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT


Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. This action is due to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam. …..U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War. I remember seeing this on TV and thinking, “Hmm, this isn’t supposed to happen!” My father said he had no shot but in 1968 legions of young people cut their hair and became “Clean For Gene” and gave people an excuse to not vote for President Johnson…..in Pennsylvania, Senator Joe Clark is noncommittal about McCarthy’s chances but says that someone other than legislators and protesters could articulate the anti war stance…and in Luzerne County, various school boards are reorganized with new members taking seats on joint school boards for the first time in Pennsylvania history and 45 years ago the number 1 song in America and LuLac land was “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees.

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29 Kasım 2012 Perşembe

The LuLac Edition #2278, November 27th, 2012

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John Cryer, last man standing. 

FROM THE "WHO CARES" DEPARTMENT 

Things are kind of light politically so let’s talk about religion. Specifically religion and TV. That show that starred Charlie Sheen, “Two And A Half Men” now is having trouble with another one of its co stars. This time Angus T. Jones, who played the “half” in two and a half is imploring people to stop watching the show because of its unmitigated filth. Jones who is now a Christian was on the show since he was ten. But now he’s found God and is asking people to abstain from watching the program. To me, the show has always been mildly amusing. If I had a kid, I’d be hard pressed to let the child watch if he or she was under 12. The producers aeren’t sure they want to ask Jones back and he won’t be back on the two remaining episodes of this year. It seems the only original member of the trio, John Cryer who is this cenmtury’s comedic Tony Randall “everyman” just might be the last man standing, Since they moved the show to Thursday, I really just listen to it while I’m at the E Mail machine. But I do have a question to Mr. Jones, if you were doing this since the age of ten, and were paid $350,000 an episode, are you going to give the money back now that you are so disgusted?

LINCOLN-THE MOVIE 

See it. It is certainly timely if you see how Lincoln was not afraid to compromise and get himself down and dirty in the trenches. Daniel Day Lewis was great but Sally Field, Tommy Jones and James Spader were exceptional. Look for a former female member of the original “Law and Order” series in two short but interesting scenes with Tommy lee Jones.
Baseball union head Marvin Miller and players in a 1977 meeting with the Red Sox and Phillies. (New York Times photo). 

MARVIN MILLER 

He was a small in statue, huge in intellect labor lawyer who changed the course of baseball and modern sports. Marvin Miller died today at the age of 95. Miller was the Attorney who fought the reserve clause in baseball. The reserve clause bound players to their teams for as long as the owners wanted them, leaving them with little bargaining power. Come contract time, a player could expect an ultimatum but not much more. The minimum salary was $6,000. Miller was hired by the players in 1966 and by the time he retired in the early 80s, baseball players were free agents, had higher salaries and benefits and became nearly coequals with many of their owners. Miller has been eligible for the Hall of Fame but has been repeatedly denied. His union activities had a lot to do with that. His death, due to liver cancer was announced by the Major League Players Association.

The LuLac Edition #2279, November 28th, 2012

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WRITE ON WEDNESDAY 


This week the buzz in Washington is about the fiscal cliff and where we are going to f8ind the money to balance the budget. A budget that need I remind you the GOP blew through in one administration. With President Obama set to clean up the mess created by the neo cons, here are some ideas from economist Steve Ratner that was in Sunday's New York Times.

More Chips For Tax Reform 

Almost lost in the tug of war over whether the top income tax rate should be 35 percent or 39.6 percent is another consequential tax issue: the proper rate for capital gains and dividends. It was the absurdly low rate on those forms of income — just 15 percent — that yielded Mitt Romney’s embarrassingly small tax payments. And that’s what also led to Warren E. Buffett’s lament that his tax rate was lower than his secretary’s. So as we scurry around looking for new revenue to help address the yawning budget deficit, let’s zero in on this special preference. President Obama has proposed much of the needed adjustment, including eliminating the special treatment of dividends and raising the tax on capital gains to 20 percent for the rich. Personally, I would go further and raise the capital gains rate to 28 percent, right where it was during the strong recovery of Bill Clinton’s first term, and grab hold of a total of $300 billion of new revenues over the next decade. Inevitably, a chorus of outrage would greet any such increase. Capital investment would be severely impaired! Some of the wealthy might decamp from America! With a new 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income about to take effect, this would exacerbate the disincentives for investment! Put me down as skeptical about such dire forecasts. During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on “unearned income” have bounced up and down with regularity, and I’ve never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists. Remember also that corporate leaders have pretty much convinced policy makers of both parties that business taxes should be reformed to allow them to compete more effectively around the globe. Providing this relief makes sense, but since the benefits would flow to shareholders, this is yet another argument for higher taxes on dividends. Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy — the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health — should provide those funds. Here’s the math: We need at least $4 trillion of long-term deficit reduction, with a substantial portion — on the order of $1.2 trillion — coming from new revenues. That means other veins belonging to the wealthy will need to be tapped. Raising the tax rates for American households with incomes above $250,000 per year, as President Obama has proposed, would certainly be a productive and welcome step. But viable alternative measures are available. At a minimum, we need to implement the “Buffett Rule,” the concept that Americans making more than $1 million a year should pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. This wouldn’t raise a huge amount of money — between $47 billion and $160 billion depending on what else is done to rates — but it would reinforce the responsibility of the wealthy to pay their fair share. 
Steve Ratner was a former advisor to President Obama and is a commentator on MSNBC TV.

WRITE ON WEDNESDAY (PART 2) 

PLYMOUTH COUNCILMAN NEEDS PARDON 

The issue of the action that Plymouth Borough Council took against one of their own still is talked about locally. Peter Gagliardi wrote a story about this for voicesyahoo.com, and urged a pardon from the President for Bill Dixon. We are prohibited from reprinting it but here's the link:
http://voices.yahoo.com/ask-president-obama-pardon-councilman-bill-dixon-11892447.html?cat=17 
Peter Gagliardi is a former federal employee, ran for Wilkes Barre City Council and is a contributing writer to various websites and newspapers.

Smith and Nephew Buy Texas Wound Care Firm Healthpoint Biotherapeutics–$782 Million

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This seems to be  a match of related and similar technologies.  It was just earlier this year that  the PICO system from Smith and Nephew received FDA approval which is a small device used either at home or at the hospital for therapy to help wounds heal.  Just a couple weeks ago the company said they were looking for new acquisitions in the wound care business.  Their knee and hip business is down a little and they have and distribute what has been called the 30 year knee. 


FDA Clears PICO* Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System–Instructions for Application Use Provided by a MS Tag (barcode) On Packaging

Healthpoint employs 460 people and has revenues of $150 million so is there something else in the works with new products to come out soon?  Johnson and Johnson at one point also tried to acquire Smith and Nephew for more than 7 billion but that didn’t work out.  I would guess their knee implant might have been a big motivator there with all the issues J and J had with theirs.  You can view the products from Healthpoint here as relates to wound care and they also offer products that help control infection such as hand washes, etc. .  BD




LONDON — British medical technology company Smith & Nephew PLC said Wednesday it is buying Texas-based Healthpoint Biotherapeutics for $782 million.

Healthpoint Biotherapeutics, founded in 1992, is a privately owned company that focuses on acute, chronic and burn-related wound care.

Travis Baugh, Healthpoint’s president and chief operating officer, said the acquisition “will enable us to accelerate imagemany of the initiatives we wanted to pursue and will provide development and promotional opportunities to our employees that would not have been available to them had we stayed an independent company.”

Healthpoint, which has 460 employees, will continue to be based in Fort Worth.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/uks-smith-and-nephew-buys-texas-based-wound-care-firm-healthpoint-biotherapeutics-for-782-ml/2012/11/28/646d5fc2-3949-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html