Prescription Drugs That Cost a Fortune. Amazing Cost

Acthar

Imagine having to spend the cost of a house every year on medication just to stay alive, and often your insurance doesn't even help with the cost. That is what many people are dealing with in the United States right now. Here are some of the most expensive prescription medications avaliable right now.

Acthar or ACTH is used to treat seizures in babies under 2 years old, among other things such as multiple sclerosis. The drug used to be available for just $50 a dose but recently that cost shot up to $28,000 for a tiny vial meaning it can cost up to $300,000 a year. And since it isn't approved by the FDA to treat infant seizures people usually can't get their health insurance to help pay for it.

Aldurazyme

Hurler Syndrome is a metabolic disorder that keeps your body from processing sugars the way it's supposed to. There is only one medication that helps the people who suffer from this dangerous disease from getting even sicker and it's called Aldurazyme. But it costs about $200,000 a year and even health insurance doesn't usually bring that cost down by much.

There’s something fishy about the Doumen Observation Tower.Amazing.

There is definitely something fishy about the design of the Doumen Observation Tower in Zhuhai, found in the Guangdong Province of China. The winning design of a competition in Shenzhen of RMJM has given the go ahead to build an observation tower that takes on the appearance of a fish out of water thanks to its 1,400 scales of aluminium.

The Doumen Observation Tower has been based on a fish leaping out of the water as well as the trailing water and it is supposed to symbolize prosperity along with the rapid transformation within the city.

China place more emphasis on symbolism in their architectural projects than the US. We have seen this in designs of architecture on such as the Phoenix Towers and the Guangzhou Circle Mansion. They draw upon Feng Shui along with the Chinese Phoenix.

The design of the Doumen Observation Tower is stunning, as is the material used on the building. It will stretch 88m into the sky and span out over 4, 563 square metres of floor space.

The interior of the building has been designed in three different sections; these are restaurants, cafes and a souvenir store located on the ground floor. The middle section features what has been termed a recreation platform and on top is an observation platform that is encased in glass, offering 360 degree views out over the landscape.

The aluminium scales make the fish look as though it shimmers in the sunlight and they do serve a purpose; they also provide protection from the sun along with the creation of patterns from the natural light within the confines of the building.

At the moment however, RMJM haven’t said when the building of the new tower will commence and when they expect it to be completed.

- See more at: http://interestingengineering.com/theres-something-fishy-about-the-doumen-observation-tower/#sthash.B3LbWd8B.dpuf

10 of Google Important Acquisitions

Since 2001 Google has spent a lot of money on taking over 163 companies - $28 billion actually. This means that Google have bought on average one company each month. They have bought many different types of companies from services and technology, mapping companies, to security, gadgets, gaming and robotics. Here we are taking a look at the 10 of the most important and worthy acquisitions that have impacted Google’s business.

Makani power-clean energy – $30 million

Google made an investment in green energy start-up before purchasing Makani Power in May of last year and since that time Makani have been working from the labs of Google X building airborne wind turbines that could be the dominant form of clean energy. At the moment Google is working on a prototype.

Zagat – Restaurant Reviews – $151 million

Google bought Zagat in 2011 and the purchase was more about getting the content of the company into the various Google services including Maps, Search and Earth. Thanks to the treasures of ratings of Zagat, Google has been able to compete better with other services such as Yelp.

Titan Aerospace – Drone and UAVs – $60 million

Google purchase Titan Aerospace, the company based in Mexico, in April this year and they have many uses for the company which makes solar powered flying drones. Titan Aerospace, along with contributing to photos for Google Earth and Maps, will be a big role in Project Loon. This project aims to bring connectivity to the internet to places without it as it could beam broadband from the sky.

DeepMind Technologies – Artificial Intelligence – $650 million

Google would like to be able to organize the multimedia and data of the world and this is one of the main reasons behind the acquisition of DeepMind Technologies. They want to be able to provide computers with corresponding perception capabilities, which would allow machines to do things like listening to music and then building descriptions of their perceptions.

Boston Dynamics – Robotics – $500 million

At one time Boston Dynamics made mobile research robots for the Pentagon. However they are now making Googles robots led by Andy Rubin, the former Android boss. Google want to be able to deliver packages in the same way that Amazon wants to use delivery drones and at the moment the robots of Google are in training with the Marine Corps in the US.

Wave – Navigation Software – $966 million

Google bought the navigation and GPS company Waze and paid around $1 billion in June, despite the fact that the company had not been making a great deal of money. However Waze does have 44 million users and a lot of outsourced data and Google has improved the real time mapping data when it comes down to conditions on the road along with accidents and closures.

Nest Labs – Home Automation – $3.2 billion

Google revealed that they planned on bringing Android into the living rooms of people in 2011 and they wanted to do this by way of Android @Home. They paid around $3 billion for Nest Labs in January and it could bring the plan for Android @Home back to life. Nest is known for the thermostat and smoke detector home products and they have collected a great deal of data about habits of its users along with making a lot of sales.

DoubeClick – Online Advertising – $3.1 billion

Google spent more than $3 billion when they purchased DoubleClick in 2008. The company ended up being a cash cow for them, serving ad services to Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola and others. It is said that 95% of the $12.67 billion revenue came thanks to advertising in the most recent quarter.

YouTube – Video Sharing – $1.65 billion

Google took over one of the world’s largest video sharing websites, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock and users are said to upload around 100 hours of new content each minute. Thanks to monetizing, users can make money simply by posting video content on YouTube, thanks to it playing a big part in the culture of the internet.

Android – Mobile Software – $50 million

When Android was only in the start-up stage at 22 months old, Google spent $50 million to obtain the company. Within under a decade of the purchase Android became one of the most widely used operating systems on mobiles and tablets in the world. Today Android is seen on TVs, tablets, phones, car systems, wearable devices and video games platforms. It was without a doubt one of the best deals that Google ever made.

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The Amazing Creative Sun Shorts ever. amazing

These guys dont know what will happen with them after taking selfies.. sadess moment for their family.

1 No Fear of Heights

Xenia Ignatyeva took a selfie from a bridge 28 feet off the ground to impress her friends. The 17-year-old Russian girl lost her balance and fell on a cable, which tragically electrocuted her.

#2 Jenni Rivera

In December of 2012 Mexican pop star Jenni Rivera and her entourage took this selfie right before taking off on a private jet which sadly crashed and left no survivors.

#3 Happy

On April 26, 2014 Courtney Sanford posted this picture of her reacting to the Pharrel Williams song 'Happy' while driving through North Carolina; seconds later she crashed into a truck and the accident proved to be fatal.

#4 Jadiel

This is a selfie snapped by a famous Puerto Rican reggaetón musician Jadiel, uploaded to Instagram moments before he had a fatal motorcycle crash in New York in May, 2014.

#5 MH17 Selfie

Gary Slok and his mother took this selfie minutes before taking off from Amsterdam on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which was shot down over Ukraine in July, 2014.

#6 Gun Selfie

21-year old Oscar Otero Aguilar lost his life when he tried to take a selfie with a gun for his Facebook page in July of 2014. The Mexican gun enthusiast accidentally shot himself in the head and didn't survive.

Toyota unveil second version of Gran Turismo FT-1 concept car

At the beginning of the year Toyota showed off a real-life build of the concept car designed for Gran Turismo 6. Now, they have refined and perfected the design in their second go at the Toyota FT-1 Gran Turismo concept car and boy is it beautiful.

The car was designed for ‘Vision Gran Turismo’ which sees real-world car manufacturers designing concept cars to be used in the game. When Toyota first showed off its FT-1 design rumors began to circulate that it was a prototype for the reboot of the Supra, a car which hasn’t seen production since 2002.

We recently reported on other entries to the project, including the Nissan Concept 2020 Vision GT and also the Mercedes AMG Vision GT.

Toyota failed to confirm the rumors but there are still a huge amount of fans with their fingers crossed. They say the new design is more “sophisticated” and “masculine”. The muscular design with its deeply sculpted intakes and outlets is certainly a head turner with Toyota adding that the “dramatic lines are seemingly shaped by the wind“.

“From the start of the FT-1 project, we wanted the driver to have a feeling of flow while at the wheel – to be able to focus on the road and nothing else,” said Sellene Lee, the Calty creative designer who proposed both color concepts.

There’s no release on whether the car will see mass production or whether it is actually a prototype for the new Supra, but you can take it for a spin in Gran Turismo 6 when the downloadable content becomes available.

All Images and Source: [Toyota]

- See more at: http://interestingengineering.com/toyota-unveil-second-version-of-gran-turismo-ft-1-concept-car/#sthash.5MF9Bz5c.dpuf

Weird and amazing click pics that are banned from Face book.

That's An Elbow

Kylie's Bear

Baby Grayson

Just because the pictues of baby Grayson Walker are hard to look at doesn't mean that Facebook had to remove them entirely. It's like he's being bullied as soon as he's born!

Effin Facebook

Watch Where You Pee

Down With Down's Syndrome

A woman was banned entirely from Facebook after posting pictures of her son who has Down's Syndrome which Facebook deemed "inappropriate".

Michele Bachman and a Corndog

To be fair, no one else really wants to watch Michele Bachman eat a corndog either, but that's not really a good reason to ban it from Facebook and block the poster, comedian Shann Carr, from posting.