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The Business of Diabetes: Death of Sanofi Aventis' "GoInsulin" YouTube Channel - Good Bye, or Good Riddance?
I sincerely doubt that many of my blog readers even noticed that pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Aventis (best known to the patients with diabetes as the seller of the Lantus and Apidra insulin analogues) even noticed that the company's "GoInsulin" YouTube channel was rather abruptly terminated by the company recently without much advance notice. But another blogger, Andrew Spong, noticed and he addresses the rather sudden termination of the "GoInsulin" YouTube channel, which according to him, was reportedly one of pharma's biggest (bigger than J&J's YouTube channel, which now rates as #1 since "GoInsulin" was terminated, see here for more detail). Sanofi Aventis has replaced the former campaign with "WhyInsulin" (like type 1s even have a choice) instead.
One reason so few of my readers may have noticed it is because much of my readership has some connection to type 1 diabetes, while the "GoInsulin" campaign completely disregarded people with type 1 as irrelevant, without so much as an acknowledgement of the fact that Lantus is even approved for patients with type 1. I try my best to be as objective as I can and to present facts clearly, but when it comes to insulin, one thing is clear: the type 1 audience is anything but irrelevant (Exubera, anyone?). And for a company that earlier this year (in February 2010) that identified diabetes as a "top priority" in pharmaceuticals and even established a global division to help the company achieve its aim of becoming the top firm in diabetes treatments (see here for the text of that story) to help unseat Novo Nordisk, and the narrowly-focused "GoInsulin" strategy was downright moronic from a business perspective. As I've noted before, at one point, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimated that 75% of all insulin users have type 1 diabetes. Many doctors believe this is because fewer type 2 patients use insulin than should be, but regardless of the reason, any ad campaign that completely dismisses type 1s as irrelevant is doomed to fail.
I made no secret of my disdain for the Sanofi Aventis "GoInsulin" campaign when it first began, in fact, I blogged about it about it back on March 12, 2008. I still contend that casting the majority of insulin users aside as completely irrelevant to the insulin sales, which is what the GoInsulin campaign effectively did, the company's marketing strategy was, at best, pound-wise but penny-foolish. In effect, the company decided: "look, there are tens of millions of type 2s, many of whom aren't using insulin ... fuck the type 1 audience -- they have no choice in the matter anyway, and instead target the entire campaign and every cent in marketing dollars on insulin-naïve type 2s". That does little to endear the brand, or the company to type 1s, and is not the appropriate way to market Sanofi's insulin products. And with a product whose linkage to cancer (see here) has yet to be completely dispelled, I don't think Sanofi Aventis could afford to be too arrogant, even if the American Diabetes Association pretty much came rushing to the product's defense, telling patients to keep taking the product in spite of their concerns.
Shallow Campaign
The shallow marketing campaign ignored the not-so-little reality, which is that the therapeutic options for type 2 are greater today than at any point in history, while type 1s now have fewer insulin options available to them that they did in 1976, the year I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Anyone who questions this should consider the facts: today we have no mid-range insulin analogue -- although many endos and commenters on the Novo Nordisk board on Cafe Pharma, including Novo Nordisk salesmen, swear that's the case with Levemir. In addition, the Lente series for Humulin and Novolin have both been discontinued, leaving patients requiring less than 18 hours basal coverage with only isophane insulin, which was widely regarded among doctors as inferior to Lente except that it could be used in premixed insulin varieties (which is the very reason NPH remains on the market today, according Lauren Grossman, Lilly's vice-president of research and development in Canada, according to this testimony before Canadian parliament). This also helps to explain the huge growth in insulin pumps, because alternatives are relatively few. Meanwhile, Eli Lilly & Co., who once dominated the U.S. market, has seen it's market share slip further (see here), although last year, the company reorganized, giving diabetes therapies a new, senior executive vice president (Enrique Conterno) reporting directly to the CEO for the first time in over a decade (since Prozac drove the company's earnings) to turn the sinking ship around.
Marginal Benefit To "GoInsulin" Campaign
While I do believe the Sanofi Aventis "GoInsulin" campaign did aim to dispel many of the common misconceptions about insulin, it did so in a way that was, frankly, rather offensive to the patients who do not have the option to "choose" insulin, and have no other alternative other than choosing a different type or manaufacturer. A campaign that includes all patients is likely to be more memorable, and more effective.
The original "GoInsulin" campaign, and YouTube channel was quite obviously poorly thought-out, thus the plug was pulled on the campaign. A woman at Sanofi Aventis by the name of Lynn Crowe, who was Sanofi's senior product manager for metabolism marketing was widely quoted in the pharmaceutical trade press for the campaign. She told one publication, Medical Marketing & Media (see here), that the "GoInsulin" launch was "... indicative of our belief that expanding social media platforms will play an increasing role with patients, and can be used to effectively deliver information on the risks and benefits of diabetes treatment and care," said Crowe. The campaign, website and YouTube channel. You can thank an interactive agency named Intouch Solutions, of Overland Park, Kansas (located in suburban Kansas City) for the campaign that all but dismissed the critical type 1 audience as being completely irrelevant.
At the time the so-called social media campaign (which ignored a big segment active in social media) launched, Sanofi Aventis completely disabled any YouTube comments, which was by design. Sanofi's site did not take advantage of YouTube's comment feature, technology that pharma has largely avoided to avoid off-label conversations, which could attract the wrath of FDA regulators who have recently cracked down on practices that were tolerated under the leadership of Bush FDA Chief Andrew von Eschenbach, a man known to favor the interests of the pharmaceutical industry rather than the agency's goal to protect the public safety. The company told PharmaExec Marketing Direct Marketing Edition that it was looking into a way to incorporate patient feedback. "We are working to find a way to support a two-way conversation," Crowe said. "It is definitely our goal to be able to utilize this medium to its full extent." Obviously, that never happened.
Sanofi's Lantus Still Rules Basal Insulin -- For Now
As of today, in spite of negative research and press, Lantus still rules basal insulins. While Lantus maintains a unique niche for basal insulin that presently has little real competition (Novo Nordisk's Levemir is widely regared as lasting about 12 hours), but type 1s have been abandoning basal insulin altogether in favor of insulin pumps in increasing numbers.
Levemir is widely panned on Cafe Pharma as lasting half as many hours as Lantus, but the less subtle but possibly more important market trend has actually been the widespread migration of type 1 patients towards insulin pumps, which use only prandial insulin varieties. Rival Novo Nordisk has been on press-release overtime lately promoting it's newest analogue insulin that's still in development, which not suprising, is also a basal insulin (one they're calling "Ultra" Long-Acting, when in reality, the data indicates it lasts about as long as Sanofi's Lantus does). This replacement has been widely expected considering how slow sales of Levemir have grown -- which is considered a sales dud, frankly. The company is calling it's latest invention degludec, which is viewed as a more realistic competitor to Lantus, but it's not ready for approval yet, but it is very likely coming in the next few years. Similarly, Lilly now claims to be working on a new basal insulin (after ignoring that market for over a decade), but it has nothing solid in it's pipeline right now, and even if it comes up with something, it won't be ready for market for another decade.
But several of the startups I noted in January are once again ready to eat Lantus (and Lilly's) lunch. Perhaps furthest along among the startups, which is still only in pre-clinical (animal testing) development, is a product from Biodel, Inc., the Connecticut-based startup that has a rapid-acting non-analogue it calls VIAject now pending FDA approval, and some reports are suggesting we could see an FDA decision on that abbreviated new drug application as early as November 2010. Biodel's basal insulin product has been dubbed BIOD620 which it says is a "Glucose-Regulated 'Smart' Basal insulin" (see here for details). But the company's strategy with this product is similar to that used with VIAject: to use an already-approved product, and modify it slightly using FDA-approved addititives to alter the time-activity profile of the already-approved version. Using this strategy, the company saves costs by avoiding the lengthy brand-new drug approval process needed to demonstrate the product's safety, and therefore increases it's liklihood of gaining regulatory approval in a timely fashion.
Another startup is Cleveland-based Thermalin Diabetes, which has the rights to a number of different analogues (reportedly over 100) developed by Case Western University researcher Dr. Michael Weiss, but all are still in very early stages.
All of this means that the limits to patient, insurance company and doctor choice in insulin may soon change as I suggested in my January 2010 article, see my post here for more details. That cannot come a moment too soon. Presently, the insulin market in the U.S. is highly-concentrated, and the major manufacturers, including Sanofit Aventis, have aggressively raised prices on insurance companies in recent years, even while patent-protection for the earliest analogues is due to expire shortly and follow-on versions of analogues are anticipated by 2012. In fact, an Indianapolis area (in Greenwood, IN, to be precise) company begun by some former Lilly scientists called Elona Biotech, has stated it's intention to enter the field of follow-ons, and Israeli generics giant Teva, as well as a handful of Indian biotech firms are also seen as likely to move into the space, few have done so. The real question is what inherent drivers the brand-name competitors can hold onto. Analysts point to the salesforces, which companies have been cutting back in recent years, as well as their delivery devices (pens), but those so-called advantages may not be the house made out of stone that analysts credit them with.
Is The Complete Exclusion of Type 1s Really Necessary In A Social Media Campaign?
There may very well be millions of untapped type 2 patients out there, but was it really necessary to have a web page and a YouTube channel where type 1s weren't even considered or addressed to be at the core of a campaign that is featured on such TV programs as dLife, which is aimed at both type 2 as well as type 1? Why was there not a single reference to type 1 at all in the campaign, including the not-so-little detail that it is approved for type 1? A type 1 vistor to the "GoInsulin" campaign found not a shred of relevant or even useful information there -- not even a link to a general information page -- which strikes some marketers as peculiar. Whatever the reason, let's try to frame this discussion in a slightly different manner so those who defend the campaign can see it in a different light.
Imagine a company, let's say Coca Cola or PepsiCo for example, derived three quarters of it's sales and profit from a particular market segment. For convenience sake, let's say that market was was females whose very survival was dependent on Pepsi or Coke, while males for some reason seldom consumed soft drinks of any type, only water (or liquor), and had many misconceptions about soft drinks. In effect, it would be akin to saying "Hey guys, we know you have plenty of choices when it comes to beverages (screw you gals because we know you have no choice but our products anyway). That's a bit like Sanofi Aventis' "GoInsulin" comes off to the ignored audience -- a tad offensive, to say the least, especially considering the importance that females actually have in this scenario to the bottom line -- women might even be a tad offended that Pepsi or Coke was taking their business for granted, leaving them out of advertising altogether, and might consider that when evaluating whether a company is trustworthy.
Right now, type 2s are indeed driving much of the growth of Lantus, but today, competition in that space is quite limited. But patent protection on Lantus will expire in a few years, and competition is indeed coming. Whether material changes to the social media marketing strategy are likely to occur remains unclear. Sanofi Aventis' "WhyInsulin" does not make any material changes to the old campaign, raising questions why it even bothered to kill the old one. Like the now-cancelled "GoInsulin" campaign, this one provides not a single reference to type 1 diabetes. Perhaps Lynn Crowe, Sanofi's senior product manager for metabolism marketing, should be reading this blog. But investors should be asking how Sanofi plans to overtake rival Novo Nordisk when it continues to ignore three fourths of the insulin market completely?
at Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Pieces of My Life said...
Of course I understand your point, Scott, and this echoes against the neglect of t1 support/education, research funding, and even misunderstanding in the general public. And I feel that same anger, BUT...I understand why they've done it.
Even if only 25% of t2s use insulin, that's still greater than the entire t1 population. And regardless of whether we dislike Sanofi (I do, for other reasons...namely from having worked with them and seen things I wished I hadn't...) it won't affect which insulin we choose. Most of us don't even know which pharma produces their insulin, and even though I realize Apidra is produced by Sanofi, I use it because it works best for me, regardless of how I feel about the company making money from me.
So they target t2s because it's the t2s they need to convince to become consumers. To use your example, men are afraid of Coke, and need to be convinced that it's safe. Women are already hooked on Coke, know it's safe and so don't warrant their advertising dollars. Even if Coke commercials are only directly targeted at men, the women won't care because they're already hooked, and don't even look on YouTube to find the commercials...
A very interesting read with some good content. A few thoughts/issues did pop into mind as I was reading this:
1. At least give s-a credit for doing what 95% of other pharmas refuse to do...take the risk of getting into social media before FDA provides its long-overdue thoughts.
2. All of your points on why GoInsulin was a poor campaign were based around "because the campaign didn't target you and others with Type 1". Are you saying people with Type II are not deserving of their own campaign? Clearly you realize these two audiences have different needs and habits that might require different campaigns?
3. You stated GoInsulin made no attempts to contact subscribers/friends...but I did receive an email from them/their channel several days before it went down saying the channel was going away. Check your facts.
4. Anyone can point out problems...where are your solutions? You sound like you are just ranting at times, bring constructive feedback.
Anonymous: Constructive feedback? Pharma should quit bitching about a lack of FDA guidance for social media; the FDA doesn't owe the industry guidance about anything.
Thanks for the mention, Scott. This is a hefty piece of anaylsis I intend to RT to the #hcsmeu #hcsm communities for their comment. Thanks for keeping the conversation around this topic going.
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Alfred Edward Heath – 5 February 1873 – 2 August 1896
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Alfred Edward Heath was born on 5th February 1873 at Moorlands Yard, Newbury. He was recorded as the son of Alexander George Heath, Shoemaker and Harriet Heath née Stephenson. His birth was registered by "Alexander George Heath, Father, Moorlands Yard, Greenham".
In the 1881 census Alfred Heath (7) was living with his parents Alex G Heath (38) a "Shoemaker" and Harriet (30) at Greenham Street, Greenham with his four brothers and sisters:, Henry (9), Alice (6), Kate (5) and Rose (3). The children are all described as "scholars".
In the 1891 census Alfred Heath (18) an "Errand Boy", was still living with his parents Alexander George Heath (48) a "Shoemaker" and Harriet (40) at St Mary's Hill, Greenham with three of his brothers and sisters: Henry (19) a "Grocer's Porter", Alice (16) a "Laundress", and Rose (13) a "Scholar".
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New York City is a bad place to be when your world falls apart. When you wake up to another three-day hangover and remember your girlfriend left you, your therapist has done all they can and the songwriting life you always dreamed of has become a spirit-crushing grind, chasing major album writing credits as if your talent isn't your own anymore.
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He'd set up his laptop and USB mic in hotel rooms and outhouses wherever he could, driven to get his delicate, soul-baring confessionals down on hard drive. "I've got sounds from inside this concrete installation in a ghost-town in Texas that had the perfect natural echo, I was keen for it to feel like it was living and breathing. It's ugly in places. I'm creaking in my chair, but I like that. You can hear planes overhead, kids kicking balls against the fence and screaming and the same blackbird that would not shut up. That's my breath on there, I like the idea that it's still embedded. It became about making something that still felt alive and acoustic. Those tracks have a warmth for me."
Reacting to the shallow perfectionism of modern pop, a focus was placed on honesty. "The record is about limitations: in my ability as an engineer - I had to learn as I went and you can hear me progressing as the album plays – and only allowing myself three takes of each song. I learnt to love the imperfections. I guess it mirrors a lot of the lyrics, which are about facing up to your own imperfections too."
It was Josh T Pearson's 2011 album Last Of The Country Gentlemen that turned Irwin towards the tender, guiding him towards Sun Kil Moon and Sufjan Stevens. "When I heard Last Of The Country Gentlemen I was particularly lost, I wept like a baby," he admits. "It was the album I needed to hear. It rekindled that idea of 'that's what music can do, that's the power'. Songs you can believe in, there's honesty, integrity and truth. How about that aim over a chart-position?"
First single 'Give It Up, Son' - featuring Irwin's dad on piano - is a stark, mechanised addiction song, seen both from the inside and the outside. "I wrote it from the point of view of my mum and dad, if they knew the truth about their son, that idea of it being addiction from someone else's point of view, seeing the effect it's having."
The brittle-yet-breezy 'Other Kind Of Guy' is more brutal still, a filter-free catalogue of personal failings in which Irwin admits to being unreliable, deceitful, unholy, hedonistic and hopelessly horny: "I wanna do the right thing but it won't compute/On the same day I give blood I spend 37 minutes with a prostitute". The melody and music are so sweet to me that the lyrics had to jar with it. And sometimes it's good to be jarred."
Then came the spirit-stirring R&B 'Devout', inspired by Hippocrates' idea of the 'four humors', which some of his family members had taught him growing up. "It advocates the existence of conflicting sides of the personality. Most commonly one side is extrovert and one introverted. I've been 'diagnosed' as 'sanguine-melancholic'. This album has been freeing to live in the introverted world of the melancholic."
With five songs completed, Irwin felt he had an EP in the bag. He turned to musician and producer Erland Cooper (The Magnetic North, Erland And The Carnival) to help him record it, but Cooper heard a crumbling magic in the demos and instead used them as a bedrock, pulling in favours to add harps and strings. "That elevated it," says Irwin. "You've got these tawdry demos with a little bit of majesty."
For eighteen months, the White Tail Falls project gathered dust. Then, towards the end of 2017, another six-month burst of song-writing gave him a second batch of songs, this time less wounded, more reflective, about "where I found myself afterwards, and where I was heading." The haunting 'Disintegrate' tackled the thorny topic of procreation – to help bolster what might be humanity's last few generations or to frolic in the face of extinction as proud end-points of our bloodlines? "I wanted life to just be about me and I always put off having children," Irwin – now a father of one – says.
'Rome's Already Fallen', powered by piano and orchestra, pinpoints the pivotal moment in a relationship when tempers blow, bruises bloom, things can't be unsaid and there's no going back to how things were. 'Age Of Enlightenment', a sepia chamber pop wonder, concerns the expectation of success and celebrity we all feel in our cossetted social media age.
Irwin didn't even realise that he'd given the album, the chronological diary of his step back from the edge, a redemptive ending. He wrote the sumptuous 'Only Getting Easier' from the first-hand experience of someone trapped in a cycle of habitual wrong-doing ("time kills the sting of doing the wrong thing/It's only getting easier to make the worst decision of your life") but barely realised it opened with a pertinent Note To Self: "it was hard in the beginning, you thought the world would end, you did a little breaking and now you simply bend."
At the end of the journey, Age Of Entitlement emerges as one of the most life-affirming, honest, empathetic and heart-stopping records you'll hear this year – a record which will make you cry like a baby and remind you of the power of music. A record to imperceptibly pivot lives to the positive, not least Irwin's. "It's blown music open for me again and I'm just loving diving in," he says. "Making this album has changed my life. It's forced me to confront what I'm made of. I still don't know how I feel about that."
Enjoy the plummet.
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His toilet lid is wrapped in aqua chiffon with a purple feather boa border and the room is decorated with flower petals and a picture of Pierre's girlfriend, Gigi
He relieves himself on disposable nappies left on the floor.
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The bathroom was the work of interior designer Lisa Fitzwater, she said: "It's kind of cool when you have a client who's creative and adventurous. I've done a hundred black and brown rooms. This was a lot more fun."
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A puppy has bounced back to health just days after swallowing a kitchen knife the length of his body.
Jake, a 12-week-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross, was taken to the vet when he began vomiting and trying to keep his body in a straight line.
X-rays showed why the puppy was so reluctant to curl up - a seven-inch knife was running through his body, with the plastic handle at the base of his pelvis and the metal point at the top of his throat.
Jake had swallowed the Shappu 2000 knife whole, handle-first, at his home in Huyton, Merseyside, England.
Vets at the nearby People's Dispensary for Sick Animals hospital operated immediately to remove the knife and Jake was back to his playful self within days.
Senior vet Christina Symonds said: "The knife went from his oesophagus, passed behind the larynx and right through his stomach down into the bowel.
"Dogs are always swallowing strange things, from kebab sticks to corn-on-the-cobs to tape cassettes, but this was particularly unusual because it was such a large knife in a small puppy. It really did run the length of his body.
"If he had swallowed the knife blade-first, it would have caused more damage but then again he would have stopped before eating the whole thing!"
Owner John Mallett, 22, said: "When the vet told me it was a knife I was in total shock. I couldn't understand how he could fit it in.
"He's come through the operation really well and he's totally back to his old self. The PDSA did a really good job and I'm just pleased and relieved that he's OK."
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• Dog survives car injury, bullet to the
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A dog in California has survived being hit by a car, being shot in the head and being stuck in a freezer for two hours - all in the one day.
Dosha was first hit by a car in Clearlake and then shot by a police officer who was trying to put the animal out of its misery.
The dog was presumed dead and taken to an Animal Control centre, where she was put in a freezer.
However, a few hours later an official went to the freezer and found Dosha alive - but cold.
Animal groups have begun raising money to pay for her care.
• Colorado postman told to leave dog at
A Colorado postman who uses his dog to pull his letter cart has been told by bosses to leave the pet at home.
Terry Trish, 50, has let golden retriever Sydney pull the cart since undergoing a hip replacement operation two years ago.
Now, Aspen's new acting postal inspector Howard Orona has told Trish to leave his canine partner at home, saying the dog violates safety regulations.
Postal spokesman Al DeSarro said: "Terry may be the best letter carrier in the world and this dog may be the best dog in the world, but we can't take isolated cases and make exceptions."
DeSarro said dogs bit 3,000 US postal carriers last year.
Trish said: "All I can really do is bring a lot of joy to people, and that's what Sydney did. You can't put a dollar value on that."
• Bid to use dogs in prostate cancer
Scientists are hoping to train dogs to sniff out signs of prostate cancer in urine samples.
A Cambridge-based research group wants to test whether dogs can distinguish between the odour of urine from men with malignant prostate tumours and other men with no malignancy.
If successful, the simple method of screening could be used on a routine basis for men, potentially saving many lives, research consultant Dr Barbara Sommerville said.
The research team, from Cambridge University and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, have recently submitted an application for funding for a 12-month pilot trial using German Shepherds and labradors.
Dr Sommerville, who is leading the group, said: "Initially, we are going to test them with urine from men that have definitely got malignant prostate cancer, but the next stage will be to see if they can pick up men with an enlarged prostate going into malignancy.
"We want to be able to pick up those men whose enlarged prostate is just becoming malignant."
She said prostate cancer was "crying out" for a simple method of screening because the current blood test used was not always reliable.
Many men who take the blood test are led to believe they have prostate cancer and then undergo multiple biopsies of the prostate gland, only to discover they do not have a tumour, she added.
"If we had a simple method of screening the entire population of men, say over 55, and a method which did not throw up false positives, i.e. could be relied upon, it would save a lot of men's lives, because the urgent thing is to get on to any malignant change as quickly as possible."
"If dogs can do it, we could merely screen urine samples on a routine basis."
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Gout Health
The Gout Eraser Review- A Three-Stage Plan For Overcoming Gout?
By Dr David J Thoreau October 19, 2020
Here is The Gout Eraser review. The Gout Eraser is a program that claims to cure gout through natural remedies.
But does it work, or is it just another hoax?
1 The Gout Eraser Review- A One-Time Permanent Solution To Gout!!
2 What is the Gout Eraser?
3 About the creator
4 How does the Gout Eraser work?
5 Benefits of Gout Eraser
6 What can you get from the Gout Eraser program?
7 How much does the Gout Eraser program cost?
8 Bonuses included with Gout Eraser
9 How can you get hands on it?
The Gout Eraser Review- A One-Time Permanent Solution To Gout!!
If you are one of the many people struggling to deal with life because of gout, The Gout Eraser review may help you decide if it is the solution to your problem.
Read on to know more about the specialties, effectiveness, bonuses, and other details of this program.
The Gout Eraser Overview
In contrast to modern medicine, the Gout Eraser guide works along the lines of ancient medicine originating from Okinawa. According to their approach, gout can be easily cured through simple natural methods that bring no side-effects. Read the Gout Eraser review to know more.
Product Name The Gout Eraser
Specification Guide, Ebook
Main Benefits Effective cure for gout through simple, practical measures.
Author Robert Miller
Category Gout Health
Result Within 7 Days
Availability Digital Format
Money-Back Guarantee 60 Days
Natural Method
An affordable, one-time solution to gout
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What is the Gout Eraser?
Gout is an arthritis-like condition in which one feels excruciating pain in joints, making it almost impossible to move naturally.
It is distressful and disabling for the individual because even simple movements get restricted.
Further, it affects their quality of life, work, and relationships. The most annoying fact about having gout is that there are very few effective medications with no side effects.
Since gout is caused by the accumulation of uric acid in the joints, it is tricky to regulate its levels without causing side-effects.
As per the Gout Eraser review, the Gout Eraser also claims to be a one-time permanent solution to gout pain vouched by hundreds of recovered users.
It is scientifically tested and developed by someone who used these methods to rescue from gout's painful clutches.
Robert Miller developed the Gout Eraser ebook. He is someone who faced the difficulties and distress of having gout himself.
He is not a medical professional but has successfully used Gout Eraser's natural methods to permanently overcome his gout.
Miller reports having spent around $250 each month just for gout medication but saw little improvement. He had turned to this alternative when the regular medications were not working for him.
His neighbor and natural healer, Sofia, who returned from Okinawa, introduced him to these simple natural methods of overcoming gout.
Ever since he has been a spokesperson for using natural ways to improve one's health and rejuvenate ourselves.
He has also authored more books on using natural methods to enhance life quality, cope with stress, and overcome several other health problems.
How does the Gout Eraser work?
According to Gout Eraser reviews by the author and other successful users, the program works in 3 levels.
In this the Gout Eraser review, the Gout Eraser program entirely relies on natural methods and does not involve any drugs or medications.
They proceed in the following manner:
Understanding the nature of gout: The initial most crucial step is to self educate oneself about gout. This includes understanding its causes to symptoms and the extent of disability it is causing you. By the end of this stage, one will be fully aware and knowledgeable about their condition.
Curating a solution: In this stage, key ingredients that work for you are uniquely selected and incorporated into your daily life. This helps the body heal and regulate the levels of uric acid by itself. This stage had strict guidelines in the book that has to be followed religiously.
Regulating your body: Once the body changes have begun, it is time to rejuvenate and claim back control over your body from gout. According to the guide, it is the stage wherein you feel newfound energy after healing all the body joints, muscles, and nerves.
The guide explains the simple diet and lifestyle changes to bring out these positive effects on the body.
The author assures that there will be significant changes within a matter of 7 days. Although it seems like a bold statement, many of the user reviews also report similar results.
However, the effectiveness may vary according to the severity of their problem and adherence to the guidelines.
Benefits of Gout Eraser
By analyzing the Gout Eraser review, some of the main benefits reported by individuals who have used the Gout Eraser guide to over their gout were:
An effective cure for gout through simple, practical measures.
They are curing gout without medications or their side-effects.
Quick improvement brought about by minor lifestyle adjustments.
A general repair and rejuvenation for the body from the effects of stress, unhealthy lifestyle, and aging.
Releases of toxins from the body, leaving you to feel cleansed, energized, and healthy.
An affordable, one-time solution to gout.
Overall, the Gout Eraser program aims at a general lifestyle alteration that comes with natural methods and not external drugs or medications.
What can you get from the Gout Eraser program?
According to the Gout Eraser review, the Gout Eraser guide is the main component of the Gout Eraser program.
It is a step by step guide that instructs you through The Gout Eraser program. The suggestions in this guide are simple, effective, and easy to follow.
On purchasing The Gout Eraser program, one receives instant access and the option of Gout Eraser free download. This can be accessed and followed as per your convenience.
How much does the Gout Eraser program cost?
The Gout Eraser guide price is $37, which is a limited period offer. The Gout Eraser program comes as a combined offer with four other free bonus guides worth $118 as well.
However, this offer is only available through their official website and nowhere else. They also provide a 60-day full refund policy if one is dissatisfied with the results. All it takes for the refund to process is an email to the author.
Bonuses included with Gout Eraser
The Gout Eraser guide pdf comes along with other bonus guides worth $118. These guides are all available in digital format.
They claim to be useful tools in bringing a holistic positive change in ones' lifestyle. They include:
Sleeping Solace: The guide is meant to regularise and enhance the quality of one's sleep. It gives methods on lifestyle and dietary habits to enjoy a fulfilling restful sleep without being interrupted.
Stress soothers: It is a comprehensive reference guide for tackling daily stressors at home, work, and social situations. It helps educate oneself about the negative impact stress can have on our health and daily functioning.
How to lose 10 pounds naturally: It claims to help one get on track for natural weight loss in a sustainable way. They do not include impossible stringent diet plans but simple, practical alterations in daily living.
Free life updates: This is an assurance of lifetime access to all future up-gradation that may happen to The Gout Eraser program. By this, the author means that one gets free access to any new update that has been made to the original plan. For convenience, these updates would be sent to the user via email to have no hassle involved.
All these bonuses come with lifetime access that is received instantly on payment. There are also no validity limits for access to these guides.
They can be downloaded and stored for personal convenience as well.
How can you get hands on it?
As mentioned in the Gout Eraser review, on purchasing the Gout Eraser program from the official website, the Gout Eraser guide free download will be made available and the other bonus guides and privileges.
This access is granted instantly, and it lasts for a lifetime with no additional charges or extension fees. There is no offline version available for the Gout Eraser guide, nor is it sold elsewhere.
Therefore, if one comes across such a product, the chances are that it is a scam.
The gout is a common disabling condition that causes extreme pain in a person's joints and limbs due to the build-up of uric acid.
Although there are treatments and medications available for gout, most of them deem to be ineffective or with worse side effects.
The Gout Eraser is a program developed by Robert Miller, a gout survivor who finally got cured through natural methods suggested by ancient Okinawan medicine.
In it, he explains a three-stage plan for overcoming gout. The first stage is learning all about gout and how they can diagnose their symptoms and impair daily functioning.
Step two is forming minor lifestyle and dietary changes according to the guide's instructions and your insight about your condition.
According to The Gout Eraser review, the Gout Eraser program promises improvement as fast as seven days from the onset of these changes. The third stage is to reclaim your health back by resetting the body functions to a healthier state.
The Gout Eraser guide has extensive yet practical instructions for these as well. The entire program is available only in the digital version, and it comes with other bonus guides and lifetime access to any future updates to the Gout Eraser program.
Since it involves no drugs, there are no risks and side-effects involved. Besides this, they also provide a 60-day full refund if the Gout Eraser program does not work for you.
This does make the Gout Eraser program sound like a confident bargain. Apart from the delay in implementing The Gout Eraser program, there should be no challenge involved in trying the Gout Eraser guide.
Dr David J Thoreau
Dr. David J Thoreau is a Health professional born and bought up in Australia. He is a trained cardiologist and a passionate blogger too. David got involved in the medical field as a heart specialist at the start of 2000. But he never gave up on his passion and dedicated some time to study all the pieces of blogging along with the profession. Now he decided to devote the rest of his life to blogging. So he teamed up with the medical counsel, a complete and genuine health-related blog.
The End of Gout Review – Can You Able To Monitor Your Gout Properly?


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More TSA screeners to be present this winter in Gunnison
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Additional screeners should take burden off airline personnel
For anyone who has traveled by air in the last several years, seeing passenger and baggage screeners from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at the airport meant that the end of a long wait was near.
This winter, seeing TSA screeners in the Gunnison/Crested Butte Regional Airport will mean that the wait won't be as long to begin with.
After reviewing the increased number of flights scheduled to land at the airport, county commissioner Jim Starr said the TSA would possibly double the number of screeners to keep lines moving and people happy.
"[TSA] essentially doubled their commitment as far as individuals they would have working at the airport this winter. We're doing everything we can to not only fill those flights, but make sure that once people get here and then leave, that they have as positive an experience as they can," said Starr.
On an average September Saturday, two flights with a total of 74 passengers arrive at the airport. By the end of December, the number of arriving passengers will jump to nearly 700, and two of the arriving flights will make it to the terminal just minutes apart.
Currently there are six TSA personnel who screen passengers and baggage at the airport, after two resignations this summer.
According to airport manager John DeVore, the airport staff is hoping to have the support of 16 TSA personnel working the airport throughout the ski season.
"Last year there was a spread in the flight schedule such that [TSA] didn't need 16 people. They had 12 and it was fine. But for everyone who handles customers, there will be increases and this will help so we don't have a train wreck and people miss flights because screening took too long," says DeVore.
As a result of TSA's analyses of the flight schedule, more people will be added to the team of passenger and baggage screeners who already patrol the airport, trying to detect threats. But the airport isn't guaranteed to get all that extra help.
Airport administrative director Kathie Lucas says getting double the number of TSA screeners at the airport will be difficult.
"[Doubling the TSA staff] is really not very easy. They are looking at increasing staffing here. TSA does all these calculations and they have told us there will be an increase in staff, but nobody can give any more information than that," says Lucas.
The additional help that does come to the airport will be drawn from a national pool that was created by the TSA to accommodate the needs of airports that have flight levels that fluctuate seasonally, like Gunnison/Crested Butte Regional.
The TSA employees in the pool work in places like Alaska and Florida, which need help in the summer season; the employees then move to airports near ski destinations and other popular destinations in winter. The Department of Homeland Security will pay for any additional TSA personnel required at the airport.
"TSA does indeed have a system in place to look at the types of flights we have coming in and how many people they have in place. That group of screeners that is nationwide moves around so they can pull them here," says Lucas.
Part of the motivation for bringing more screeners to the airport for high traffic times of the year is the overlap in duties that occurred last winter when additional TSA staff were not available.
"Last year, at times when it got busy, we didn't have near as many flights coming in as we will this year," says Starr. "But still, the folks who worked the stations for the various airlines had to help the TSA at times. We wanted to impress upon them that those folks would not have the personnel to do that this year."
Throughout the year, the airport maintains a staff of 11 people who perform various duties and work four 10-hour shifts that rotate on Wednesday. For the winter, the shifts will rotate on Saturday to maximize the number of employees at the airport at its busiest times, says DeVore.
On weekdays, there are five flights that will arrive to and depart from the airport, along with two flights making the trip on the weekends.
Some of the tasks that airline personnel had to perform were shuttling bags from one point to another and taking up non-screening tasks that TSA staff at the airport could not cover.
"TSA has certain rules and regulations that they operate under and the airlines also play a part in that," says Lucas. "The airline people may have moved bags to where they needed to be, but nobody that works for the airline was screening bags or people."
For Lucas, the mutual assistance that would go on at the busiest times in the airport is indicative of all that is nice about working in a small airport. "At this airport, we are so lucky to have the people that get along. We have people working together and if somebody needs a little helping hand, if it's going to make their job easier, then they get a helping hand," she says.
All of the airports that service ski resorts in the state and nation will draw from the same pool of mobile screeners. More information on the numbers of screeners that will be added to the staff and the date on which they will start will be available between the middle of October and November, says Lucas.
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This Sunday we're going above and beyond the traditional way of serving oysters. Skill-fully crafted by Felix and Aaron (aka The Oyster Show ), we're proud to present a canvas of colourful oysters paired with refreshing Union 55 Cocktails. Not ready to give up on the weekend? looking for a place to take your tinder date? or just a massive fan of Oysters and Cocktails?
Join us for this unique taste of Land & Sea.
As its out ambition to reach the full flavour potential of rum, we're extremely proud to have organized our first Union in the Kitchen event early August. By bringing together chefs from one of the best restaurants in Amsterdam (Restaurant C), and top bartenders from 4 of the best bars in Amsterdam we managed to whip up an incredible 4-course food and cocktail pairing.
This Sunday We're taking the search for pearls of wisdom quite seriously… Together with the team at Bar Feijoa Amsterdam and by Felix and Aron from The Oyster Show we've put together a liquid masterclass on Oysters and Salt, followed by an amazing display of innovative Oyster and cocktail serves presented on a canvas huge canvas.
Although there is an abundance of spirit competitions and we've had a couple of medals in the past, we're truly proud on this one. By putting our long summer serves to the test, we came out clean on the other side. With an outstanding rating for Union 55 mixed with Ginger Beer we're happy we got some credit for a serve we hold dear.


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WebDriver is throwing the following error: Compound class names are not supported. Consider searching for one class name and filtering the results or use CSS selectors.

org.openqa.selenium.InvalidSelectorException: Compound class names are not supported. Consider searching for one class name and filtering the results or use CSS selectors.
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/invalid_selector_exception.html
Build info: version: '2.31.0', revision: '1bd294d185a80fa4206dfeab80ba773c04ac33c0', time: '2013-02-27 13:51:26'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_17'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
    at org.openqa.selenium.By.className(By.java:131)
    at elements.betslip.Betslip.getNumberOfOpenBets(Betslip.java:136)
    at testSomething(SomethingTest.java:117)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)

EDIT:
As it turned out WerbDriver doesn't support spaces in the class names, omg.
Could you guys please help me to use CSS selector in this situation in order to find the elements?

A: Here is a Ruby answer if anyone needs it. The conclusion I reached is that some of the solutions that worked for java above either don't work on my machine or don't work for Ruby at all (although I am not sure which is the case).
If the html is:

     access web portal

The format to find this element would be:
logInBtn = driver.find_element(:css, ".button.orange-bg")

I used this because the following wouldn't work:

*

*Replacing the spaces with '.' and finding by css selector (you need to put a period at the front).

*Removing the spaces in the compound class name and using the class name locator.

A: This is exactly as expected. If your class name includes a space, WebDriver will see it as a "compound selector". You can either remove the space in your By.className() locator, which should still find the elements you're looking for; or you can move to finding by CSS selectors, using something like By.cssSelector(".cashout_noCash"), which offer far more flexibility for similar functionality. This is exactly what the exception message says.

A: You can include compound class names selectors by leaving no gap between any of them.
For example if your div is:

Then your selector will be:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("k-calendar-container.k-popup.k-group.k-reset"));

A: driver.findElements(By.cssSelector(".cashout_noCash"));

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Q: Filebeat buffer control I am running filebeat on a machine streaming 2GB data. While streaming the buffer size of the machine is slowly increasing to 100-2000MB(filling all memory).
ubuntu@ip-xx-31-xx-09:~$ free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           3943         176        2163           0        1603        3552
Swap:             0           0           0

filebeat.yml
filebeat.inputs:
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The Lions Clubs of Farnborough, Aldershot, Fleet, Hart, Hook & Odiham, Loddon Valley, Yateley & District held a festival of fun for people with disabilities from throughout the south of England. This unique festival of fun is free of charge and caters for people of all abilities and their families to allow them to actively take part in donkey rides, train rides, bungee bouncing, fairground rides, face painting, coconut shy, practicing circus skills and much more.
coconut shy and table skittle alley was popular, especially with wheelchair users. Altogether 550 participants took part travelling from as far afield as south Oxfordshire to take part in this special event. Our friends from Hendon Lions Club also came along to help as they have for a number of years run a similar event, modelled on this Funfest. Click on the link box above right to see a full gallery of images.


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The Honorable Danielle Adams, Soil and Water Conservation
District Board of Supervisors in Durham, North Carolina. In 2012 she received the Outstanding District Supervisor of the Year award from the North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts and was honored by Spectacular Magazine as the "Woman of the Year: Emerging Leader" award recipient. In 2014 Danielle was a fellow for the Young Climate Leaders Network and in 2016 received the Gantt-Watt Emerging Leader and the YEO Network Leadership awards.
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Aktuelle Einträge

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 Liste der National Historic Landmarks in Alabama
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