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One thing nice is Allspice is non toxic and if you read the article in full the researchers were kind of astonished themselves to see it work and target the androgen receptor. The University of Miami hopes not too far down the road to start clinical trials for men being treated for prostate cancer.
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.
This is kind of amazing with the finding as look at the millions and billions spent on developing prostate cancer drugs and this in no way is saying it would be a full on replacement, too early to tell. I can find some Allspice in kitchen with my other spices. Again the lack of toxicity here is a real plus for sure. The clinical trials they hope to begin would be for men who have not reached the point of needing treatment yet, so a safe place to start with just using it as a daily supplement.
Now for a little more good news, they have also shown that the extract also slows the speed of breast cancer too, a double win for both sexes but researchers are not as far along and there’s a different polyphenol. BD
“Androgen receptor, or AR for short, is the principal drug target for the treatment of prostate cancer, but there is no drug that completely eliminates AR. This complex compound in allspice seems to do that,” Lokeshwar said. “The most interesting data shows that it actually kills tumor cells which express the very specific prostate cancer marker, the androgen receptor. That is not to say that people should start eating allspice with every meal, but there exists the potential that the slow and steady consumption of this chemo-dietary agent may slow or even prevent prostate cancer.”
Essential to jerk seasoning, allspice is known for flavoring Jamaican and other cuisines around the world with a blend of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and pepper but, according to a new study by Miller School researchers, the aromatic spice could be known one day for impeding the growth of, or maybe even preventing, prostate cancer, the No. 2 cancer-killer of men in the U.S.
In the study published online May 8 in the Oxford Journals’ Carcinogenesis and led by Bal L. Lokeshwar, Ph.D., professor of urology and radiation oncology and Co-Director of Research in the Department of Urology, researchers demonstrated that Ericifolin, a complex compound in the allspice berry, significantly slows the growth of prostate cancer tumors by suppressing the androgen receptor (AR). A molecule central to the growth and metastasis of prostate cancer, AR enables prostate cancer cells to survive even after hormone therapy, which along with surgery and radiation is the standard treatment for prostate cancer.
They also hope to begin a clinical trial in the near future with UHealth patients who are under active surveillance for early-stage or slow-growing prostate cancer, which does not yet warrant treatment. Since allspice is not toxic, Lokeshwar reasons those patients would be ideal candidates to take Ericifolin as a daily dietary supplement.
They are not sure yet which one but, in Lokeshwar’s mind, that discovery raises the possibility that allspice may have many anticancer properties worth exploring.
I just got my new phone less than a week ago and I do have to say this the best cellphone I have ever owned. I’m with Verizon and the upgrade from my old Windows Phone didn’t cost a cent for the phone. 
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.
A full press conference is to be held Tuesday September 3rd EEST so if you are here in the US you will have to get up real early, especially California, or just stay up.
“Nokia will host a press conference today, Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 11 a.m. EEST in Dipoli, Espoo (Otakaari 24). Registration will start at 10 a.m., and the doors will open at 10.40 a.m. Due to space constraints, only media who show valid press credentials at the registration will be admitted. Media are encouraged to watch a live webcast of the press conference at: http://press.nokia.com/”
This continues to affirm the Microsoft commitment to the hardware business for sure. The Windows Phone has been a bit of a sleeper but I have stayed with them as I like security and it’s the best out there in that department. 32,000 employees from Nokia will become Microsoft employees world wide. I guess with all the press about Ballmer retiring, he’s not doing too bad. All companies go through cycles and I just read the other day in Germany that Windows Phones surpassed the number of IPhones, not here in the US yet by a long shot.
I also read some reviews to where some people commented on switching from their IPhones. If you like pictures the Nokia 928 has about the best camera on a phone out there and it works well. I like too how the Windows software as integrated the camera with “tiles” to connect to other apps that use the camera, like the scanner. I have used it a couple times, lines and works well.
Stephen Elop is stepping aside as Nokia CEO to become executive VP of devices and services. Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa will serve as interim CEO
“As part of the transaction, Nokia is assigning to Microsoft its long-term patent licensing agreement with Qualcomm, as well as other licensing agreements.
Microsoft is also acquiring Nokia’s Mobile Phones business unit, which serves hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, and had 
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.”
Finland has been selected as the new data center for Europe and there’ more than a quarter of a billion dollars to be spent there.
I go way back with Microsoft Mobile products to being one of the original Windows Mobile User Group members in Los Angles and we are the oldest group out there for over 15 years and we still meet. 
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.
The Lumina 928 phone is bigger too and I like that as the older I get, the bigger screen I like and I’m sure a few share that sentiment with me no matter what phone you use.
The battery life is great and it’s now in the 4G area for Verizon coverage so speed is great with the data. Of course on thing the WindowsPhone has that the others don’t is “Mobile X-Box” and I have never used a regular X-Box but being it is on the phone I have tried my hand at a few games when I have a few idle minutes.
On item I complain about once in a while is “app overload” and the phone didn’t come overloaded with useless apps so I appreciate that quite a bit. I can access Drop Box, Sky Drive (and that mobile interface is pretty neat). The Home Page program tiles are simple and easy to use and I like new “smaller’ tiles you can mix in with the big ones.
Email works great and again the fastest most responsive cellphon
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.
If you want a super 4G phone, the Nokia Lumina 928 is it! BD
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/Sep13/09-02AnnouncementPR.aspx
I wrote that post to a degree with a little satire, but what do you know..folks that see how data mechanics work and are hybrid enough to understand humanity as the same time can see this stuff coming. Everyone keeps telling me I’m ahead of my time and I’m not meaning to brag at all but I get that from readers all the time, so I guess this time I’ll take the feather. Medical Quack where humanity and data meet and collide! Here’s the original post.
I don’t have any hidden expertise to brag about either, it’s just the way I’m wired as I am a hybrid as before I learned how to code I spent 25 years in outside sale, the people business so I mesh the two together and that’s what you see here, common sense and lot of logic in how I blog. Ok so now what are the insurers going to do with this, will they cover it? The reason I ask is that so many want to gamify you to scrape your data, in other words keep playing while we scrape you data…here’s a couple posts to that effect..and hey are they contributing to this process (grin).
For me anyway, the certainly insult my intelligence with these methodologies for sure. We have a conflict of interest here and I wouldn’t expect to see a CPT code for this for a while (grin). Time for a new model to scrape your data I guess.
Here’s another old post where I asked the question as well if you have sucked in to play games…
The reason these games insult me is that my 
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..
Sure there are other games that are played against each other online too that don’t scrape data and that are just as addictive and the video again shows how corporate US uses it to get your data to copy some of this. If you want to know more about Algo Duping and the Attack of the Killer Algorithms check the collection here and get educated. This collection is a group of very smart folks, smarter than me that have taken the time to tell how it is, like I try to do.
To be fair we all have a bit of addiction to the web, self included but when does it become obsessive to where other things
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.
New term “digital detox”..no internet for 72 hours and believe this is a good idea here and there. I recently had that experience when I was moving and no internet for a few days, felt great and then I had a better outlook when I came back as it reminded me not to forget the human world. I try not too but we all become absorbed at times. Marketers play on it to make money. In addition though to the addiction process we also have another issue out there and that is the fear of math and it does make a difference on how your perception runs and those on Wall Street over came this fear a long time ago, why they have all the money.
I just wrote a post kind of blasting HHS on their new contest about an app for mental health and addictions, well this article substantiates that easily enough on where the focus need to be, there’s not an app to cure everything! HHS has some folks as duped as anywhere else out there. You can’t be the “over quantified” self by all means and maintain your sanity:) As people address and fight their addictions, mobile apps become dead as “enough is enough” too much glut out there!
Let’s see how many other hospitals entertain this idea too as I think it’s a good idea and again it brings an awareness around on the duping 
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
Roberts
"Like most addicts, I went through a series of self-deception," said Roberts, who documented his struggle with addiction in his book, "Cyber Junkie: Escape the Gaming and Internet Trap
The story of Roberts, who came to grips with his addiction through years of therapy and spiritual retreats, is not unique. Treatment facilities have sprung up in recent years, but a psychiatric hospital in central Pennsylvania is now set to become the country's first facility of its kind to offer an inpatient treatment program for people it diagnoses with severe Internet addiction.
The voluntary, 10-day program is set to open on Sept. 9 at the Behavioral Health Services at Bradford Regional Medical Center. The program was organized by experts in the field and cognitive specialists with backgrounds in treating more familiar addictions like drug and alcohol abuse.
It does not take a brain surgeon to figure out why people steal data, to sell it, duh! Now we have the FTC accusing this company of not adequately protecting patient data; however, the owner says it was stolen. Duh again for the digital literacy of the FTC? Data for 9000 consumers was put at risk. This is the statement I keyed in on here…the owner says it
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.
“He claims on his personal website that the document was stolen by a cybersecurity firm trying to sell LabMD services.”
Ok once again, data breaches…they steal because they want to sell the data or solicit the folks in the data for something else..duh! What does it take to miss this correlation?
I keep my campaign going for a law to require all data sellers to be licensed so if a law of such were in place and the data was stolen, law enforcement has a to leg to stand on, “stealing data to sell without a license”…and of course it would need to be proven which comes with investigating any case as such.
Again, how can the FTC document this? I guess we have to wait for more information to come out. IT infrastructure runs everything today, no matter what business you are in and the FTC has done nothing so far to allow for any kind of regulation with the data selling epidemic we have in the US and I am not sure if this is yet another case of trying to find “low tech partial band aid solutions” for high tech problems? In the financial areas, we have Glass Steagall as a prime example of a partial low tech solution for high tech intelligence problems, so it’s all over.
I don’t know how many quants the FTC may have on the payroll but I hope they have some and maybe even entertain hiring a few from private industry that could catch them up on the power of modeling and how some use math models for profit and hide risk. FTC is there to protect consumers so how about jumping up to the plate maybe?
The only lame effort we have seen is this “Reclaim your data thing” which puts more efforts on the backs of consumers again to have to “fix” and on their own dime all the flaws out there with data selling, while those selling it have made billions selling the data, no accountability. It’s a consumer dump once again with no protection and a low tech band aid with few teeth to it. I was not the only one who wrote about it, others in security attacked it as well all over the web. That’s the problem today with too may lawyers running government departments, they are out of touch and to have some dynamic technologists running government departments would be a huge help.
Lawyers are basically “reactive” and they do research and that is what their job is for a lot of after the fact incidents but they can’t see the battle ahead with technology so again this makes yet one more case for having a technologist at the top of the helm, backed up of course with all the lawyers one would need to ensure that in identifying high tech problems, that they are pursued properly too.
So again in this case, let’s see where the additional information comes from and find out what happened here and if we have some weak areas with digital literacy here at the FTC. I’m not picking on the agency, just stating the mechanics as they are and how they get interpreted. 
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.
There’s a group of videos I collected that explains this phenomena and I call it “Algo Duping” and have had a lot of good comments here as the folks in the videos are smarter than me and take time to explain how this occurs and how you get duped. Thanks much for the many readers I see that are taking time to educate themselves by watching the videos for a greater awareness of how this is functioning out there today, it’s not the same old world and combined in many areas this leads to “inequality by modeling with segmentation”.
So stay tuned here as this story evolves and I’m glad if in fact the data was stolen and the lab was taking the proper security precautions that they are making a case of this as someone needs to wake up the FTC when it comes to privacy and consumer protection. This is important more so today than ever because what we all worry about is data being used “out of context” against us and there’s plenty of history on that with health insurers that has been in the news over the years on their segmentation efforts. BD
The federal regulators filed a formal complaint Thursday against LabMD alleging that the company's lax security controls led to a billing sheet being leaked to a public file-sharing network. The billing sheet contained the personal data on more than 9,000 consumers. The FTC says California police later discovered that identity thieves had acquired personal data from at least 500 LabMD consumers.
Reached by phone on Thursday, LabMD founder Michael Daugherty said he objects to the allegations and plans to release a full statement soon. He claims on his personal website that the document was stolen by a cybersecurity firm trying to sell LabMD services.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/aug/31/us-medical-records-privacy/
I almost feel like this is somewhat of a public service post here as I have read so many stories about patients trying to get copies 
of their medical records and if they are still “paper” records, well that takes a bit longer as we all know. Sometimes you luck out and it’s not that hard, but every office, hospital, medical entity is different, so if you get stuck here’s a company for what seems like a reasonable fee, will chase them down for you.
The company is a division of another company “Datafied” it appears and there’s a little more information on their website as well. The company goes out and scans your records if needed and you can download them online. You get an email when your records are available. The web page states they are HIPAA compliant. Do check to see which metropolitan areas for their coverage.
What is also interesting here is their sister company
called Retireddoctor.com where a physician can send off the patient records to make sure they are available for patients and how many articles have you read about paper medical record dumps, too many. The records get scanned and they handle the transition to transferring to the new doctor for the patients. I don’t have any idea what the cost is and it would depend on the number of files, etc. but this sure beats getting fined or going to jail with trying to dump off paper medical records somewhere and everyone is happy.
They have a web interface to where it looks like you can either do it all online or you can also reach them by phone. BD
As companies and professionals narrow down their business practices to very specialized activities, the need for high-volume medical records acquisition becomes more and more prevalent. At the same time, the volume of individuals requesting medical information for themselves or their loved ones is also increasing, as members of society become more assertive in their own medical care needs. To fill the gap, OrderMedicalRecords.Com (OMR) stepped forward to become a proficient procurer of records that require release of information.
In addition to other record ordering formats, including over the phone, mail, or fax, the new website now makes it possible to request medical records online. The new online format streamlines the ordering process making it simple and straight-forward. It can be used by corporate entities desiring bulk record acquisitions as well as individuals desiring their own records. Clients may also use the website to check the status of their orders. Data security policies are strictly adhered to and all processes and information that are handled through the website are protected using data encryption and other appropriate data security measures.
If you liked the video about the Quants, which is always located in the footer of this blog, 
this is another film they made and it does good a job of explaining how the big corporations get their tax havens. Right out of the barrel they begin with Apple and interesting how they explain and the Netherlands has like no tax on intellectual property so the chain there is interesting on how it leads back to a US LLC. See how the names don’t always identify who they are as well. Wal-Mart is also covered in depth.
According to this video, there are always 4 companies present, (screenshot at the right) with most tax havens, all names you probably recognize too. Familiar advisers are why they are used and the constant feature. Without one or all of the firms you really will not have a good tax haven. Banks in there too, all of them. Banks, lawyers and accountants are the 3 needed elements. What is “neutral” taxation? It means “no tax”. Tax optimization is another term that means “no tax”.
The video shows the internal, secret world of where the billionaires live and travel. They make themselves invisible from money, nothing has their name on it and they deal with “cash”…amazing as they try to push consumers away from cash. The same laws and regulations don’t seem to apply 
to many of the billionaires.
The process of "globalization" was organized by the banksters at the helm of multinational companies with a single purpose in mind, make money. Certainly 35% which is the rate for the US is large percentage but somewhere between 35% and zero would be a help.
Intellectual property profits go to a Dutch “mail box” company for one example, where patents are held…so guess where the royalties go? You got it, the mailbox. Starbucks is identified as a mailbox company and the “trademark fees” flow back to the Netherlands so they are another one that hardly pays any tax. The one man interviewed here said it’s hard to compete with “zero”, in other words no tax.
The Parliament meeting in the UK with asking Starbucks about their 15 year running streak of no profits is rich “why are you still operating here”…you show you are losing money here and we need a better explanation. They hammer on Amazon pretty well too. The woman leading it gets right to the point in her speech and then apologizes.
It’s called working within the gaps of the law, why we digital centric types of laws soon that spell out the IT infrastructure and transaction paths. Accountants have had a pretty good ride and nobody has really questioned them. Why are the accountants no held accountable when banks failed? Nobody judges them and in the UK they are taking over the regulators, so we are back the same 4 pictured above.
What kind of models do these tax havens have, I guess we go back to the big 4 accountants for answers, right? Markets get distorted with all this as well with share prices. It’s the same old story with the middle class and the poor paying taxes. BD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4o13isDdfY&list=PL9ABD0BB3C3BEDE19
