I have written about Gary Michelson here a few times and he’s a bit of a hero as well as a wealthy man these days for taking on Medtronic years ago
for violating his patents, and he won big. When I read this article I immediately thought of his prize contest for non surgical sterilization of animals.
Dr. Gary K. Michelson With Philanthropy, Pets and One Who Won over Big Business
Here’s my original post from 2008 which at the time I found it entertaining as it came the day after the Wellpoint/Blue Cross X-Prize farce wanting to hand out $10 Million to solve healthcare and it doesn’t take a brain surgeon today to see how much of a farce it was, but I did back then and thought the $25 million prize as Dr. Michelson offered was great and he said himself $10 million was not enough to get people
interested but $25 million, they get interested:) Here’s a link to the full criteria for the prize.
$75 Million Prize for a way to sterilize pets – a one-time non-surgical means to sterilize male and female cats and dogs
Now this story says they only do male dogs so far so that leaves female dogs and both sexes of cats still needing a solution. If these folks are not a full on winner they deserve something at least for their progress in this fields. It mentions that the dogs may still show aggressive behavior and such though and I had dogs that have been neutered too where that doesn’t go away, both male and female so there’s no perfect answer on that one and it works the same way for humans come to think of it:)
The video below gives more details on how this works, good stuff and as the article states, the male dogs can cosmetically still look like they have balls so we have that side addressed with our pets now:) BD
A new non-surgical procedure to sterilize male dogs is gaining attention in the Inland Empire, but some say it may not offer the same benefits as surgical neutering.
CBS Los Angeles reports that the Humane Society of San Bernardino is the first place to offer the procedure called "Zeutering." It provides chemical sterilization to male dogs by injecting the chemical Zeuterin into their reproductive organs.
"The reason that we started using it here at the Humane Society and offering it to clients is for those clients who like the cosmetic appearance of an intact male dog," said Dr. Amy Raines.
The procedure is non-invasive, according to Dr. Raines, and dogs are lightly sedated but do not require general anesthesia. The procedure costs about the same as surgical neutering.
I read it loud and clear in the news all the time. Might the fact that 84% of the Senators still use all paper methodologies for all their work when the Senate makes digital systems available? I assume McCain is a “paper senator” from what I read. This gets really interesting though when “Paper Senators” discuss doctors transitioning to electronic medical records…oh the gap shows big time:) 
consumers. There is a reason for a lot this though as this PLOS One study pointed out and yes I published my opinion with a little satire in there just due to the nature of the study with math causing real physical pain to humans..full on study with MRI images and all. I think there’s a lot of pain in Washington, do you? I feel their pain everyday in how it affects me as a consumer:) 
which by the way seems to be the competition where United seems to be protesting. We all remember United sued the DOD to get the west coast Tri-Care contract a short while back and we have never heard as to why and what the outcome was other than DOD gave United the contract. 
Wonder how the 75,000 employees feel about this…silly. She’s been over taken by the NSA stories and hopefully she doesn’t want a little bit of the action (grin), right?
or business intelligence to be able t determine what has value and what does not and in addition to the quantified self today, we also have the over quantified self. Good data, the company chosen for analytics markets the fact that they can give you better analytics than Yammer itself, which is owned by Microsoft. We all need cheerleaders but we also need logic and business intelligence as well. 
Their focus is the elderly to offer home service care. 
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They are not far enough along yet but in one statement in the article is says they are also curious if this could help even “prevent” some cancer development.
So where can you not get a deal like this one. I was going to do a blog post this week and talk a little bit about it but its seems a few words right now would be appropriate in post.
sales of 53.7 million units in the second quarter of 2013. Microsoft will acquire the Asha brand and will license the Nokia brand for use with current Nokia mobile phone products. Nokia will continue to own and manage the Nokia brand. This element provides Microsoft with the opportunity to extend its service offerings to a far wider group around the world while allowing Nokia’s mobile phones to serve as an on-ramp to Windows Phone.”
When I think back to the early days and scratching out a few of the old antique VB apps that the early phones had, boy have we come a long way. A couple years ago Microsoft actually came out and did some pictures on the group. 
e I have owned. The only thing I have not tried yet is Skype (also owned by Microsoft) and that’s next on my list. Nokia and Microsoft have built a good product hardware wise and software wise for the operating system. 
healthcare is not a game and I’m up there for education and spreading good word and technology but I do call foul on the games that are there to scrape data. The data selling epidemic is so bad and so profitable it is an epidemic and that’s why you see these games..there’s even a game to exploit the games…great video at the link below..
don’t get done. Believe me with the time I spend on the web I’m doing a self check all the time to make sure I don’t wing out too:) After all I can’t be the kettle calling the pot black either. 
side of things we have out there today. A few years ago I kind of hinted around at this will PHRs too..like what are folks going to do, work on their personal health records or play World of Warcraft…from back in 2010…see I was tracking it then with logic and common sense…everyone has both so just us them and become a skeptic when things don’t seem right. BD
, now 44 years old, would sit eight to 12 hours a day in front of the pale blue glow of his computer, playing a videogame. During holidays, he "binged," spending nearly all his waking hours at his keyboard. Finally, a friend who had been through Alcoholics Anonymous told him he displayed all the same characteristics of an addict.
was stolen so more information is needed to know if the cyber security firm was in fact looking for a list or data base of people to market for something else maybe. 
We don’t have enough folks trained out there today to work with “flawed data” for sure and way too many are still thinking everything that shows up in the news and on computer screens has value or is accurate.