Filed under: Healthcare , Media , Pfizer The striking union of transit workers in Philadelphia are angry that they’re not getting daily doses of Viagra . And amazingly, their bosses apparently caved on their demands after the union turned down a generous offer — and threatened to embarrass the city during the World Series. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has agreed to cover almost all of its rising health-care costs, and to increase coverage for Pfizer’s ( PFE ) Viagra and other erectile dysfunction treatments, the Philadelphia Daily News reports. Workers are unhappy that their health insurance plan only covers about 10 pills a month. Continue reading No daily Viagra dose, no peace! Philly transit workers rise up in protest No daily Viagra dose, no peace! Philly transit workers rise up in protest originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Filed under: Media , Oracle , News Corp. When Don Zminda was the statistician for ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball in the 1990s, he spent most of his Sundays calculating reams of data that were written onto a stack of note cards for announcers Jon Miller and Joe Morgan. That was the state of the art back then — not now. “It would take me hours and hours,” said Zminda in an interview with DailyFinance . He’s vice president and director of research for STATS LLC, which is providing the statistics for Fox’s broadcast of the World Series. “The technology advances are pretty amazing,” he added. Continue reading The wizards behind those amazing World Series statistics The wizards behind those amazing World Series statistics originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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