23 Şubat 2013 Cumartesi
Mexico Real Estate's Gems - Cancun Compared to Puerto Vallarta
Similarities
Beachfront - Both Cancun and Puerto Vallarta are located on some of Mexico's finest beaches. In both places, beachfront properties are readily available and life on the beach can be enjoyed directly at your "front door." Both locations also offer nice properties back from the beach with close driving access to enjoy a walk in the warm sand, or a cold drink on a sunny day.
Luxury Properties - The properties available in both locations are very nice, with spacious design, nice views, high-quality finishing details, onsite amenities (in the case of condo complexes) and full modern connections for everything from basic electricity to high-speed internet. A beachfront lifestyle can be enjoyed in comfort.
Pricing - Just as important is that these luxury properties can be found in both Cancun and Puerto Vallarta for prices accessible to the average American budget. Financial tools such as mortgages help to make this even more accessible. The cost of day-to-day life is also considerably lower, making life's little luxuries much easier to afford.
Modern Services - Both locations have grown to be Mexico's top tourist destinations. Along with this large-scale tourism have come many modern services including activities like boat tours, sight-seeing tours, movie theaters and professional golf, as well as day-to-day necessities like Walmart, Home Depot, modern malls and top of the line clinics and hospitals.
Differences
Pacific vs. Caribbean - Puerto Vallarta is located on the Pacific Ocean, offering beautiful views of splendid sunsets where it looks like the sky is on fire. The Pacific Ocean also offers some unique oceanfront activities like surfing. Cancun, on the other hand, faces east on the Caribbean.
Views - Puerto Vallarta not only offers views of the Ocean, but also of the beaches stretching out along the bay and the surrounding mountains. Cancun offers views of it's very wide, white beaches, and the uniquely turquoise Caribbean beyond - beaches that many consider to be most beautiful in the world.
History - Puerto Vallarta has its Old Town, and is not too far away from the birth place of Mexico's famous liquor, the Tequila Valley. Cancun's is close to many Mayan ruins, and about 1.5 hours from the awe-inspiring Chichen Itza pyramids, now one of the new wonders of the world.
The choice between these two locations can be a tough one, and is largely dependent on personal taste. In either case, a buyer will be enjoying a beachfront lifestyle at its best, at a price they can afford!
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Life Sciences Breakthrough Prize Founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Ann Wojcicki and Others Awards Turns 11 Scientists Into Millionaires Today
Each award was worth $3 million dollars and the breakthroughs were from everything from cancer research to genomics. The sponsors of the awards are from Google and Facebook, the CEOs and a few others named below.
This is brand new as well as is the website and here’s the about information:
“Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences is founded by
Art Levinson, Sergey Brin, Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Yuri Milner to recognize excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life. The prize is administered by the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to advancing breakthrough research, celebrating scientists and generating excitement about the pursuit of science as a career.
Founding sponsors of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences include Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, and Yuri Milner, who collectively have agreed to establish 5 annual prizes, US$3 million each, going forward. These prizes will be awarded for past achievements in the field of life sciences, with the aim of providing the recipients with more freedom and opportunity to pursue even greater future accomplishments.
Going forward, each year’s prize winners will join the Selection Committee for future awardees. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Breakthrough Prize will be a transparent selection process, in which anyone will be able to nominate a candidate online for consideration. Also, the prize can be shared between any number of deserving scientists and can be received more than once. In addition, there are no age restrictions for nominees.
All Breakthrough Prize recipients will be invited to present public talks targeting a general audience. These lectures, together with supporting materials, will be made available to the public, allowing everyone to keep abreast of the latest developments in life sciences, guided by contemporary masters of the field.”
The website says soon the site will enable nominations to be created for the next award, which is to take place annually and the awards today were the first inaugural winners. One award went to Charles L. Sawyers, Head of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Pathology and Oncology Program. Dr. Sawyers is already internationally recognized and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator which is America’s Second Largest Charity.
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All recipients were very stunned at the amount of the prizes they received indeed. BD
Eleven scientists became multimillionaires this morning when they were named the first winners of the new Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Each researcher, whose specialties include genetics, stem cells, and cancer, will receive $3 million dollars, more than twice the maximum amount of a Nobel Prize.
Funded by several Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including Arthur Levinson of Apple, venture capitalist Yuri Milner, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, the Breakthrough Prize aims to "recogniz[e] excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life," according to the foundation's Web site.
The first group of winners includes Cornelia I. Bargmann of Rockefeller University in New York City; David Botstein of Princeton University; Lewis C. Cantley of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City; Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands; Napoleone Ferrara of the University of California, San Diego; Titia de Lange of Rockefeller University; Eric S. Lander of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge; Charles L. Sawyers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City; Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland; Robert A. Weinberg of MIT; and the 2012 Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/02/new-breakthrough-prize-awards-mi.html?ref=hp
Why Medical Bills Are Out of Control–Steven Brill From Time Magazine “The Bitter Pill” With Jon Stewart…Killer Algorithms Part 55 (Videos)
Jon Stewart does a pretty good job with this serious topic. There are 3 parts to the interview. The point out that non-profits do make money. MRIs are one of the first topics discussed and that has been in the news of late with the various charges and prices you get. All the pricing is done with IT infrastructures that build on itself. They don’t even touch the Health IT expenditures and how some of that goes. I do that enough here. Today saw this article about start ups and almost everyone of them looks like it has a model to sell data. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Here’s part two…the Charge Master…the complexities…Jon Stewart says this should be “required reading”…and I’ll add my 2 cents in the fact that all the money is made with models and algorithms…
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The US doesn’t use it’s buying power he states. Medicare for example is the best paying insurer in town in Florida. Here’s a recent story that talks about complexity and the discounts the insurers negotiate..a carrier paying less than Medicare…
The AAFP Confronts United Healthcare On Reimbursements, Some Are Below Medicare Rates In Parts of the US–Payment Algorithms/Formulas Calculated Deep Within IT Infrastructures Do the Job
In Part 3 we are getting to the core,
a lot of what I talk about government snowed by corporate USA business models and the complexities they build, to make money. If you want to see more about how it works, watch the videos in the left hand side of this blog or visit the “Algo Duped” page.
The high costs are due to excessive outsourcing in many areas. When you outsource remember those on the other end want to make money.
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Now for the other side of this too in how analytics used out of context get more of your money, read this article and watch the video and I tell you how analytics are written just to make money sometimes and how it further squeezes you as a consumer and the doctors. Again watch the videos on the left on this blog to see how you get duped and how the profiteering is flawing the data. They didn’t touch on the data selling aspect here but did you know Walgreens made short of $800 million in 2010 selling data only? Read more here. More profits made on top of what is discussed here. We are under the Attack of the Killer Algorithms. BD
Big Data/Analytics If Used Out of Context and Without True Values Stand To Be A Huge Discriminatory Practice Against Consumers–More Honest Data Scientists Needed to Formulate Accuracy/Value To Keep Algo Duping For Profit Out of the Game

Digital Literacy Needed–Senator McConnell Staff Falls for Parody Blog Post–Everything On the Internet Is Not True, Duped, Duped and Duped Again
You know I saw this and I had to laugh too one one side and on the other end it scares the daylights out of me. I’m one of those out here with a few others that would just love to “help” educate some of these folks as that would save them from themselves. The world is moving quick today and it is hard, sometimes to figure out what is real and what is not. Watch my series of videos I have curated from folks smarter than me and you’ll get it. It’s called Algo Duping 101.
You will understand a bit more about how stats are used to sway you and the error factors that are inherent. Most of the same videos are also on the left hand side of this blog if you scroll down. You get a dose of it every day in the news. Video number one helps dispute that there’s an algorithm fairy for the perfect butt, a friendship algorithm, etc. If you are on the web enough, there’s plenty of material that debunks and laughs at the thought of someone even thinking they could create them:) I like part when Charlie on the clinical trial data tells us the the information was no good as “the fish was dead”. Learn up if you have the time. Here’s the video from MSNBC and it is a little lengthy and he could have cut off a few minutes of this but you get the point…..DIGITIAL ILLITERCAY AND ALGO DUPING DELUXE.
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It is any wonder that the Sunshine Foundation says we should restore the Office of Technology Assessment, they need brain help. This goes for both sides too as we have the other party looking for “Algorithm Fairies” too, thinking that a formula will fix all evils too.
Congress Needs a Bigger Brain–Restore the Office of Technology Assessment And Truly Assess What is Useful And Remove The Algo Duping Permeating In Government–Fantasy Perceptions That Are Not Real Can Be A Dangerous Thing
Why do we like and need satire? Well (grin) sometimes they get it right and they are not even trying. Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert have a no ending supply of material when foot in mouth appears and again most of it is education related with technology that is lacking somewhere along the line. The Onion got this one right, (link below) the CIA is using Facebook and maybe this is what happened when the McConnell letter went out, the young staff member thought that that there’s more truth with satire today:)
When Satire Becomes Reality–CIA Admits to Full Monitoring of Facebook and Social Networks Just As the Onion Satirically Published Last Year..Not A Joke Any Longer It Appears With Privacy
Ok now that we know digital illiteracy is alive and well and permeates the news media so let’s take a serious look
at what happens…this allows consumers to get hurt because corporate USA uses items as such and creates models, formulas, etc. that take data out of context to make money. I’ve written about that for quite a while now and will provide a link below to where you can see a business discussion about “value” in the analytics being thrown out there today. Don’t get sucked in if it doesn’t sound right, ask questions. This may be a little technical but you can get something out out it for sure..it’s the math and models folks so listen up here if you can, the OMG soap operas aren’t getting you anywhere other than being entertained and frustrated.
Big Data/Analytics If Used Out of Context and Without True Values Stand To Be A Huge Discriminatory Practice Against Consumers–More Honest Data Scientists Needed to Formulate Accuracy/Value To Keep Algo Duping For Profit Out of the Game
Ok so what’s next on the digital illiteracy list to appear in
the news? Will they read up? Who knows. This week we have yet another issue with digital illiteracy making news…the next governor vying for “Governor Ultrasound” recognition. It’s digital illiteracy breaking out at the seems as we wouldn’t see stuff like this if they were not lost in the world of technology. It gives MSNBC a ton of material to work with as well. Don’t these guys ever think about how the “educated” world sees them?
Mike Pence of Indiana Wants to Be Governor “Ultra-Sound Number Two”– Wants 2 Ultra-Sounds, Before and After the Taking Abortion Pill…Digital Illiteracy Keeps Enacting Vaginal Legislative Discussions
Everyone complains about MSNBC at times with their coverage but why don’t these lawmakers and their staff smarten up and quit giving them such “rich” material as they share it with all of use and we laugh our fannies off at one point and at the other side we get angry in seeing the ineptness of what and who elected sadly. I try to again help educate as when this is all that permeates the news with soap operas and OMG stories and it allows big smart corporations to continue controlling most of the money in the US as all this runs on servers 24/7 with models and code written while we get left with this crap. BD
Doctor Who Helped US Find Bin Laden Sits Jailed in Pakistan–Will Zero Dark Thirty Nominated for an Oscar Help Free America’s Abandoned Hero?–Update
We all know the Oscars are up and coming and that the movie has been nominated for an award. This is sad that the doctor now sits imprisoned sentenced to 33 years after helping the US. I don’t know all the details on why he was not given an opportunity to leave the country but sitting in prison for helping the US find Bin Laden doesn’t seem to where he should be by any means. The RHL group is working to bring some recognition and help to see if there’s anything that can be done. MMRGlobal, MyMedicalRecords.com is a sponsor of the Medical Quack and is part of the RHL Group and has underwritten this effort. Below you can watch the interview with Bob Lorsch and the efforts being made by the foundation.
More information and how to get involved can be found here at www.freeafridi.com
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MMRGlobal was pretty much an unknown entity in the news world until the Hollywood connection with Taylor and Russell Armstrong taking money from the firm was made public upon the death/suicide of Taylor Russell. Last year I sat down with Bob to ask questions and get a better idea of what his companies do in healthcare. Back on topic with this story though it hardly seems fair that the doctor, Dr. Shakil Afridi, who helped the US find Bin Laden faces a future in jail. BD
BEVERLY HILLS (CBSLA.com) — “Zero Dark Thirty” is a contender to bring home an Academy Award for Best Picture this weekend, but first, local activists are joining forces to free a doctor who helped the United States find Osama bin Laden.
Arguably playing the most critical role in the 10-year hunt for bin Laden is Dr. Shakil Afridi, who is currently being held in a Pakistani prison. If Beverly Hills businessman Bob Lorsch has his way, Afridi’s story will steal the show at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
He calls Afridi a patriot who’s been left behind.
Pakistan, which is officially an ally of the United States and receives billions of dollars in aid from America every year, claims Afridi was arrested for other charges, unrelated to identifying bin Laden.
However, the people fighting for his freedom don’t buy it and want Afridi freed now.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/02/20/can-zero-dark-thirty-oscars-help-free-imprisoned-doctor-who-helped-find-bin-laden/
22 Şubat 2013 Cuma
Silicon Is Back, FDA Approves New and Updated Breast Implants from Allergan With Conditions
Silicon breast implants have been approved for quite a few years and now there’s a new and improved model. I was looking at the website and looks like there’s a sale with the opportunity to get a free Botox treatment and a Latisse prescription trial for longer eyelashes too. You can read the conditions below and basically the FDA is calling for follow up and information for at least 5 years. BD
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the Natrelle 410 Highly Cohesive Anatomically Shaped Silicone-Gel Filled Breast Implant to increase breast size (augmentation) in women at least 22 years old and to rebuild breast tissue (reconstruction) in women of any age. Natrelle 410 implants are manufactured by Allergan, Inc.
The FDA based its approval on seven years of data from 941 women. Most complications and outcomes reflect those found in previous breast implant studies including tightening of the area around the implant (capsular contracture), re-operation, implant removal, an uneven appearance (asymmetry), and infection. In addition, investigators observed fissures (cracks) in the gel of some Natrelle 410 implants. This is a characteristic called gel fracture and is unique to this implant.
“It’s important to remember that breast implants are not lifetime devices. Women should fully understand the risks associated with breast implants before considering augmentation or reconstruction surgery, and they should recognize that long-term monitoring is essential,” said Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
As a condition of approval for the Natrelle 410 breast implants, Allergan must:
- Continue to follow, for an additional five years, approximately 3,500 women who received the Natrelle 410 implants as part of the company’s continued access study;
- Conduct a 10-year study of more than 2,000 women receiving Natrelle 410 silicone gel-filled implants post-approval to collect information on long-term local complications (e.g., capsular contracture, reoperation, removal of implant, implant rupture) and less common potential disease outcomes (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, breast and lung cancer, reproductive complications);
- Conduct five case control studies to evaluate the possible association between the Natrelle 410 implants, as well as other silicone gel-filled breast implants, and five rare diseases—rare connective tissue disease, neurological disease, brain cancer, cervical/vulvar cancer and lymphoma;
- Evaluate women’s perceptions of the patient labeling; and
- Analyze the Natrelle 410 implants that are removed from patients and returned to the manufacturer.
Mike Pence of Indiana Wants to Be Governor “Ultra-Sound Number Two”– Wants 2 Ultra-Sounds, Before and After the Taking Abortion Pill…Digital Illiteracy Keeps Enacting Vaginal Legislative Discussions
Why don’t they just give this up? When I see this I loudly think “digital illiteracy” as they don’t know what to do and they go off into areas of insanity like this. I do like the nick name “Governor UltraSound” as this fits. I mean I can’t for the life of me understand why adult men are so into this topic and can’t leave abortions alone. This is is so ridiculous I can’t even laugh!
Digital Illiteracy Still Plagues Law Makers–Severe Focus on Abortion Rights Proves It–Is This Where Our Lawmaking Knowledge Leaves Off or Even Begins? Scary…
We have financial worries up the ying yang and this is all they can talk about. Here’s one more from last year. I mean don’t these men care or even think about how people view them? We want some intelligence out there not a redo of the Roman Empire.
Maybe this is an age thing right? You never see any men under 50 or so disturbed about this:) Is this some form of mental illness or passive aggressive behavior? When this came up again I mean you really have to laugh at trying to control vaginas. Rachel Maddow does a good job with this too. I don’t care what party one is but to carry on like this is so stupid and those folks were elected to make laws and this is not a law, it’s just plain stupid. Look at the screenshot below and hold on to your hat…digital illiteracy with some just can’t get there and the vaginal focus just won’t quit. BD
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Here We Go Again–Digital Illiteracy With Lawmakers & Those Running for Office–Back to the “Default” Topic of Women’s Health With A Need to Control Something When the Intellect Is Not There…Akin
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/50899358/#50899424
