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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s Headquarters
Adam Reynolds/Bloomberg
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (TEVA),
the world's largest generic-drug maker, is seeking to transform
a compound once rejected by Sanofi into the first treatment to
succeed insulin for Type 1 diabetes.
The therapy, DiaPep277, is made from a human protein that
stops the immune system from destroying the pancreatic beta
cells that secrete insulin, a hormone needed to convert sugar,
starches and other food into energy. The drug also helps control
sugar levels in the blood, a late-stage study showed last month.
Type 1 diabetes develops early in life and robs people of
their ability to make insulin, according to the World Health
Organization. Teva, based in Petach Tikva, Israel, and its
partners are aiming to find a drug that preserves the ability to
make insulin after companies including Eli Lilly Co. (LLY) and
Johnson Johnson (JNJ) have failed. If the product is approved, peak
sales (TEVA) may be between $500 million and $1 billion, Ronny Gal, an
analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, wrote in a Dec. 2 note.
"Type 1 has a huge unmet need, with no other treatment
other than insulin," Aharon Schwartz, vice president of
innovative ventures at Teva, said in an interview. "We believed
the risk-benefit ratio was worthwhile."
Diabetes is a chronic illness in which the body either
doesn't produce enough insulin or fails to use insulin
effectively. About 346 million people worldwide have diabetes,
of which 90 percent have the Type 2 form of the disease, often
the result of excess body weight and lack of physical activity,
according to the Geneva-based WHO.
Beta Cells
While the exact cause of Type 1 is unknown, scientists
believe it occurs when the immune system attacks the pancreatic
beta cells that produce insulin. By the time most patients are
diagnosed with Type 1, 80 percent of their beta cells have been
destroyed, Shlomo Dagan, chief executive officer of Teva's
partner, Andromeda Biotech Ltd., said in an interview.
"Right now the only treatment for Type 1 diabetes are
insulin injections," Dagan said. "This is not a therapy; it's
a replacement."
Lilly and partner MacroGenics Inc. last year said their
experimental Type 1 diabetes drug teplizumab wasn't effective in
slowing the progression of the disease in a pivotal trial.
Diamyd Medical AB (DIAMB) terminated an agreement with a Johnson
Johnson unit to develop a Type 1 diabetes treatment in June
after the medicine failed to preserve beta cell function after
15 months, the primary goal in a late-stage trial.
No Competition
"When we started we thought, even if the results are
positive, we would have competition," Schwartz said. "Now we
are the only game in town."
DiaPep277, which modulates the immune system to prevent the
destruction of insulin-secreting cells, was invented by Irun
Cohen of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
Since then it has been under development by Peptor Ltd. and its
successor companies: DeveloGen AG, which merged with Peptor in
2003, and Evotec AG, which bought DeveloGen last year. Aventis
SA, which later became Sanofi (SAN), licensed the drug from Peptor in
2002 and returned the rights two years later.
DeveloGen sold the drug to Andromeda Biotech in June 2007.
Teva licensed worldwide rights to DiaPep277 from Andromeda
Biotech in June 2009, and invested $170 million in the company
last year to fund a clinical trial to confirm earlier results
for DiaPep277.
Teva's Stake
Bernstein's Gal estimates the market for the medicine to be
about 50,000 patients a year at a price point of between $5,000
and $10,000 annually. The product is a "nice asset" for Teva,
which will probably get 20 percent of sales as a royalty rate,
Gal said.
"It sounds like a drug that could provide value to
patients who don't have a lot of options," he said in an
interview. "The question is, does it stop the deterioration of
the pancreas or just slow it down?" If patients lose the
ability to produce any insulin, then DiaPep277 wouldn't help, he
The drug met both the main and secondary goals of a study
in the last of three stages of human testing generally needed
for regulatory approval, Andromeda Biotech, a unit of Ramat Gan,
Israel-based Clal Biotechnology Industries Ltd. (CBI), said on Nov.
22. Patients taking the medicine had stable C-peptide levels,
which meant pancreatic cells secreted insulin on their own,
while there was a decline in those levels among patients taking
the placebo.
Glucose Control
Patients taking DiaPep277 also maintained "good diabetic
control" compared with those taking the placebo. That means
patients need fewer daily insulin doses, delaying or reducing
complications from diabetes, which include heart disease and
stroke, according to Andromeda Biotech.
The trial included 457 Type 1 diabetes patients between the
ages of 16 and 45 in Europe, Israel and South Africa. Patients
were newly diagnosed and received one subcutaneous injection
every three months, on top of their regular insulin injections,
Dagan said.
Enrollment in the second late-stage trial, which includes
450 patients in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel and Argentina,
will probably be completed during the first half of 2012. Data
from the two-year study is due out in 2014, and the company will
use it to apply for approval in the U.S. and Europe, Dagan said.
"Type 1 diabetes has been notoriously difficult to
treat," Cord Dohrmann, the chief scientific officer of Evotec
who oversaw early trials of the drug as CEO of DeveloGen, said
in an interview. "A number of other applications have failed in
late-stage development. There's a lot of hope riding on
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NASCAR's Governing Body Needs to Get Its Act TogetherApril 18, 2013
Shape up or ship out! That's exactly what NASCAR's governing body needs to be told to do.
In the world of sports, most leagues keep a pretty tight leash on what they will or will not allow their athletes to say about them. For example, the NBA and NFL do not take kindly when players or owners openly criticize the officials.
In March the NBA fined Jerry Sanders $50,000 for alleging that officials made calls that heavily favored the Miami Heat. In January the NBA fined Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban $50,000 for comments made via Twitter about NBA officiating.
During the 2012 season, the NFL fined both Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton and Washington Redskins coach Kyle Shanahan for conduct involving referees. Newton was fined $21,000 when he verbally abused a referee after what he thought was a bad call. Shanahan was fined $25,000 when he followed a referee off the field to question a call that was made in the game.
Both the NFL and the NBA do their best to let their players know that you cannot question the officials. Some of the men, without question, crossed a line, while others simply voiced their opinions. Regardless, neither league stands for such actions, and they levied the fines to prove it.
It's a shame that NASCAR doesn't have that strong of a backbone.
Prior to the NRA 500, Brad Keselowski's No. 2 Miller Lite Ford had some issues during pre-race inspection. It was at this time that NASCAR confiscated the rear-end housing from the car as well as other pieces. As a result of this, Keselowski and teammate Joey Logano were delayed in getting their cars to the starting grid.
After the race, Keselowski launched a verbal assault against NASCAR.
There's so much stuff going on, you guys have no idea — you have no (expletive) idea what's going on, Keselowski said. I can tell you there is no team in this garage with the integrity of the 2 team.
The way we've been treated over the last seven days is absolute shameful. I feel like we've been targeted over the last seven days more than I've ever seen a team targeted in my life. My guys keep their heads on straight and they showcased why they're a winning team and a championship team.
Keselowski actually said on live television that he believed NASCAR was intentionally targeting him. If that is not questioning the integrity of a sports league, what is?
NASCAR's response to this rant? No fine.
In 2011 Keselowski was asked about NASCAR's new fuel injection system. He had the following to say:
I don't think we're really going to save any gas. It's a media circus, trying to make you guys happy so you write good stories. It gives them something to promote. We're always looking for something to promote, but the honest answer is it does nothing for the sport except cost the team owners money.
NASCAR's response to this? A $25,000 fine.
Earlier this season, Denny Hamlin compared the Gen-6 cars to the previous model. After a race in Phoenix, he had the following reaction:
I don't want to be the pessimist, but it did not race as good as our Generation Five cars.This is more like what the Generation Five was at the beginning. The teams hadn't figured out how to get the aero balance right. Right now, you just run single-file and you cannot get around the guy in front of you.
I hate to be 'Denny-downer,' but I just didn't pass that many cars today. That's the realistic fact of it.
After making that comment, NASCAR saw it fit to fine the driver of the No. 11 machine a cool $25,000. Okay, so maybe NASCAR was just cutting Keselowski a break. He is, after all, their current champion, and they did have the whole matter of dealing with his part confiscation ahead of them.
So what in the world is their excuse for how they handled Tony Stewart late last season? Stewart had some unique post-race comments after wrecking at Talladega.
I'm upset that we didn't crash more cars. I feel like that is what we are here for.
I feel bad if I don't spend at least $150,000 in torn-up racecars going back to the shop. We definitely have to do a better job with that.
If we haven't crashed at least 50 percent of the field by the end of the race, we need to extend the race until we at least crash 50 percent of the cars because it's not fair to these fans for them to not see any more wrecks than that and more torn-up cars. We still had over half the cars running at the end and it shouldn't be that way.
NASCAR also decided to let these comments slide without any sort of fine.
It would seem that NASCAR's stance is that it's okay for driver's to talk poorly of the sport, fans and officials. However, they better not dare speak any ill will of their equipment.
I understand that NASCAR is all about the "rubbing is racing" philosophy, and they want to let their drivers settle it on the track. With that mindset comes drivers who are going to speak their minds and give the media quote-worthy sound bites.
What NASCAR doesn't seem to understand is that they are not giving any credibility to their sport when they hand out these punishments.
When a casual fan hears a rant like Keselowski's or comments like Stewart's, their initial reaction is that they most likely enjoy it. In today's very politically correct world, it's refreshing to see people who are allowed to openly speak their minds.
Then the same fans see Hamlin compare how the new car races to the previous, and he receives a fine. That same fan that loved Keselowski's targeting comment sees him get fined for commenting on the fuel injection system.
To say that this comes across as confusing would be an understatement.
No system is going to be perfect, but NASCAR has to come closer then this. You cannot argue that NASCAR is protecting the integrity of the sport by fining for critical comments about their equipment and not fining when they are accused of conspiring against a team.
The fans deserve better, and the drivers certainly deserve better.

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One of the most popular notification sound, vibration and LED control apps, Light Flow, is picking up a notable update with a refreshed interface and lots of compatibility improvements. First off you'll notice a refreshed white interface that takes advantage of new design and animations popularized by Google Now. The developer now makes use of the "card" UI for selecting notifications in the settings and for newly refreshed widgets.
On the back-end, the update brings compatibility fixes for the Galaxy Note 3 as well as other Samsung phones using its Knox enterprise security suite (provided you're not rooted). As usual the app adds new app compatibility, and this time around we see 27 new supported apps including Google Keep and the official BBM client.
If you're a fan of Light Flow you'll want to give this one an update — the design refresh is a lot friendlier and the widgets are much easier on the eyes. If you like it, consider buying the full version, it's just $2.49 to support a great developer.


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Can Telematics Help Me Save On Car Insurance?
The next big thing in car insurance is here and is already at work in the industry: Telematics. You may have seen references to a little "black box" in insurance commercials; Progressive is one company that comes to mind ("Flo" plugs it into the bottom of the steering column). That black box works constantly to monitor your driving habits and relays that information back to the insurance company; that's telematics, a means of monitoring your car.
How Does it Work?
For insurance purposes, the box specifically tracks your speed, how many miles you drive, how hard you apply the brakes, rapid acceleration, and the time of day you drive. These are all indicators used by estimators to assess risk, and that is the basis for your premium rate. That black box knows when you're speeding and by how much, how often you jam on the brakes to avoid a fender bender or pedestrian, what part of town you drive in, and whether you drive in heavy or light traffic.
How does it know all this? The technology behind telematics, in simple terms, is a blend of GPS system and onboard analysis. These components work together to track the exact location of a car, as well as how the engine and electronic parts are behaving, which is enough for insurers to get a good picture of your driving skills.
How it Affects Your Driving
Because that box knows every corner you take too fast, every light you have to slam on the brakes for, and every time you drive above the speed limit, you might feel like you're being watched. That's because you are, in a way. Just knowing that the black box is literally recording every move you make behind the wheel is enough for many drivers to correct their bad habits.
An insurance industry survey of more than one thousand drivers who had the black box installed in their cars reports that more than half of the drivers altered their driving habits; 18 percent admitted to making big changes, while 36 percent agreed to make small changes.
Individual Assessments
A big plus to installing the black box is that an individual's driving habits, which are now lumped together with everyone in the same age group, can be assessed separately. This is great news for good drivers in their 20s because they belong to an age group that, in general, pays twice the amount in premiums than most drivers over 30.
A word of warning: You should commit to practicing safe driving habits at all times. Ask a friend for an honest assessment of your driving habits before you chose this type of insurance. If you don't take driving seriously at all times, it's going to show in your black-box data and you could end up paying more instead of less.
Not all insurance companies currently offer insurance based on driving habits. If you're interested in this type of policy, you can use the Internet to connect with those that do. Use a website such as www.carinsurancecheap.net to make it easy on yourself. This site sends your information to several insurers, who will follow up with you.
New Uses for Telematics
Information analysis expert HIS Technology reports that, by the end of 2018, 80 percent of all cars sold in the U.S. will include embedded telematics (and that figure is considered conservative). Consumers will, however, still be able to choose to whether and how their data is used. The basic technology has been in play since 1996 when OnStar debuted in General Motors cars. The service uses GPS technology to offer driving directions and roadside assistance, as well as anti-theft features.
Telematics provides for many different uses, from monitoring company fleets to tracing stolen vehicles. In coming years, we will see it used to deliver "connected-car" services such as live traffic and weather updates, apps, and voice-activated features. It may even go so far as to include Facebook integration.
Motorists will also be able to enjoy security features provided by the technology that includes instant notification to AAA (or other agency of your choice) when your car breaks down. Along with sending technicians to help, telematics will provide them with diagnostics from your car, so they will have a good idea about how to fix the problem when they get there. And that saves you time and money.


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Abstracts of Selected Articles
(The following abstract from the June 1964 issue of BIRTH DEFECTS is reprinted with the permission of the National Foundation - March of Dimes.)
(In French) Therapie 19(l):43-l64, Jan.-Feb. 1964.
Fave, A. (Pfizer-Clin. Labs., Paris, France.)
A catalogue of known agents teratogenic for various species is tabulated from the literature. Brief discussions of the history of experimental teratogeny, types of pathogenic results in embryos, determining factors in pathogenic activity, and a review of pharmacological nomenclature and embryological terminology are included. (12l2 references)
(The following abstract is reprinted from the April 1965 issue of THE BULLETIN of the DOW CORNING CENTER for AID TO MEDICAL RESEARCH issued quarterly at Midland, Michigan.)
James Hunter. Amer. J. Surg. 109:325, 1965
A number of types of artificial tendon prostheses have been developed by extruding Silastic (R)* silicone rubber over polyester fibers or ribbons. These have been designed to be implanted in flexor or opponens positions and can run to the palm or up into the forearm. They act as movable prostheses around which new tendon sheaths develop, and are used in badly damaged tendon beds where conventional grafts would be likely to fail.
After suturing the artificial graft into place, hands are immobilized for a month, after which active motion and stretching exercises are begun. Maximal range of motion should develop in 3 or h months. At any time after this, the prosthesis may be replaced by suturing a live tendon graft or transfer to one end of the prosthesis and pulling it through the untraumatized new tunnel. Live grafting may be done after k weeks but it is better to wait as benefits accrue during the period of active function.
A total of l8 implants has been placed in the hand and 11 in the forearm. Because of good functioning of the prostheses, 11 have been allowed to remain implanted, the longest for 34 months. In 11 other patients they have been replaced by live tendons, all of which have had complete acceptance with the new sheath.
The new tissue bed begins to organize almost immediately on the surface and within a few days a discrete delicate mesothelium-like membrane is formed. Clear serous droplets similar to synovial fluid form on the surfaoe.
Results show that this artificial tendon functions successfully as a temporary replacement, forming an excellent gliding canal which permits motion. This makes it possible to bring about tendon motion through scar tissue.
*Silastic 372 medical grade elastomer.
From the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.


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The Candida/Yeast BeGone extract uses Echinacea Angustiflora to help energize the immune system while eliminating yeast or candida infections with Pau D'arco bark, Usnea, Reishi, and Thyme. Great for handfeeding babies which develop Candida infections and to treat infected adults who routinely produce infected babies.
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After 35 years in the tech industry, I decided to retire and start exercising the right side of my brain. My graphic design business, Jilbert's Bits of Bytes, is the result.
The designs in this store are primarily for creating digital scrapbooking pages (personal use) along with resources for scrapbooking kit designers (commercial use). Be sure to check my blog for additional information along with tutorials on my products.
My business name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to my geek side. Jilbert is a play on the comic Dilbert and was my username (along with an occasional server name) while I was still employed in the tech industry. The bits of bytes is a play on the terms bits and bytes, which are units of digital information. It seems a true geek never truly retires.


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Microsoft unveils an Xbox controller made specifically for Windows
For what has felt like forever, gamers have wanted the Xbox controller made available for Windows, and now that day has come. Microsoft has unveiled an Xbox controller made specifically for Windows, as well as a few other peripherals, with a new mouse and keyboard that will work on virtually any tablet on the market, including an iPad.
The new Xbox controller for Windows is different to the one console gamers know and love, with a USB cable tethering it to your PC. The new Xbox controller, while made for Windows, still works on the Xbox. The new controller sports infrared LEDs that can be picked up by the Kinect, working with other Xbox hardware such as the Charge Kit and Chat Headset.
Microsoft has made its new Xbox controller for Windows compatible with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, requires a single USB port, and is priced at $59.95. Microsoft will make the new Xbox controller available to all in November.


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Acting, singing, dancing, writing, time travelling and evil archery – often, it seems that there is no ends to the list of skills at which John Barrowman excels. Leaping to every new challenge with his signature flair and flamboyance – not to mention incredible levels of energy – it's no surprise that he's won so many awards for being generally an all round amazing entertainer. At San Diego Comic Con this week, he added to his list of accomplishments by showing off his fabulous cosplaying talents.
His take on Marvel's Squirrel Girl is both adorable and impressive – that tail has to be heavy to carry around but it sure as hell looks good and Barrowman is showing no sign of any strain.
Yes Squirrel Girl happened @Comic_Con#SDCC#EisnerAwards#cosplay#jbstyle JB pic.twitter.com/mLb4s9FY1I
— John Barrowman MBE (@Team_Barrowman) July 23, 2016
He introduced Matt Groening, who this year was nominated for induction in the Will Eisner Hall of Fame for his world famous and consistently popular cartoons, dressed as Groening's leggiest 25 star General, Zapp Branningan.
Introducing Matt Groening in style @Comic_Con#EisnerAwards#SDCC#lovespanx#cosplay#jbstylepic.twitter.com/Az21mOfOCi
— John Barrowman MBE (@Team_Barrowman) July 23, 2016
And if that wasn't revealing enough, Barrowman's pièce de résistance was the mother of all figure hugging cosplays with a skin tight Harley Quinn number, complete with face paint, mismatched boots and wrist ruffles.
.@Team_Barrowman's next number at the Eisner Awards? It's Harley Quinn of course, puddin'. pic.twitter.com/bY0DcGhvZQ
— Comic-Con HQ (@ComicConHQ) July 23, 2016
Take note, cosplayers, because this is the kind of quality that turns heads.
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As you know, Romney aides have taken to telling reporters that they think the 2012 election will unfold just as the 1980 election did. With Obama maintaining a small but persistent lead in the polls — and a slightly larger lead in swing states — they say they expect the race to break in Romney's direction in the home stretch.
I laid out a few reasons last week why the historical comparison is imperfect. And in response to my post, Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, who wrote a book on the 1980 campaign, sends over some more interesting thoughts:
Beyond the fact that Romney is not even a poor imitation of Reagan; or that Obama is a vastly superior politician to Carter; or the fact that the economy is nowhere near as bad as it was in 1980; or that the world situation is far better than in 1980; what is most overlooked is that nearly every state was in play in 1980, unlike today.
Both candidates campaigned across the country; Reagan in New York City, Carter in Reagan's California.
Some states like Wyoming were going to go Republican and Georgia was going to go Democratic, but hard as it is to believe only 32 years later, the South was considered a Democratic stronghold, New Jerry was considered a reliable Republican state in presidential years and both sides competed aggressively for Illinois, Texas, Michigan and other big prizes.
In the end, as we now know, Reagan took 44 states but many like Tennessee and Massachusetts he only won by the narrowest of margins.
This time around, the focus is on maybe nine swing states, and as noted before, the role of swing Democrats — Reagan Democrats, as they were called at the time — may be less important in this election. Meanwhile, Nate Cohn says he still thinks Romney has a credible path to victory, because of the economy and the resources the Romney camp is amassing, but he suggests that if a late break is what Romney and his advisers banking on, then history is not on their side:
Contrary to conventional wisdom, history suggests that undecided voters are unlikely to uniformly flock toward the challenger: Candidates almost always finish above their share of the vote in summer polling. While there are examples of challengers sweeping undecided voters, as Reagan did in 1980, the "1980 or bust" position is hardly enviable. The economy is bad enough that the 1980 scenario can't be discounted, but the differences between 1980 and 2012 are too great to count on it—especially given Romney's astonishingly bad numbers among undecided voters...
The question, however, isn't if Romney could rebuild his brand, but how—and that's where Romney's real conundrum resides. Romney's deficient conservative credentials limit his ability to tack to the center, a move which would have served him extremely well. Boston's inability to effectively rebrand their candidate — despite sustained unpopularity since he ascended to national prominence — raises the question of whether they're capable of improving his image at this late stage. If they couldn't make Romney popular before, how will they do it now?
And this goes back to the fact that Romney ... isn't Reagan; and that Obama ... isn't Carter. I fully expect the race to tighten, and I'd say it's still a toss-up, given the bad economy. But it's interesting to ask why the Romney camp is spnning this scenario. I don't know how heavily Romney and his advisers are banking on things unfolding this way, but the fact that they are telling folks this suggests they think they need a theory of the race that explains why they aren't yet winning.


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An estimated 12.9 million people in the workplace are using drugs illicitly, and working beside them are millions of co-workers taking powerful painkillers legitimately prescribed by their doctors for their intended purpose. Some members of both groups will become addicted, affecting their health, behavior, relationships, and workplace productivity and accuracy, according to experts interviewed by BNA.
Employers are in a key position to help and have much to lose by not taking some kind of action, and yet many companies minimize the extent of the issue.
"Many [employers] will say, 'There is nobody in my workplace that has a problem with substance abuse,' especially painkillers, but that's just not true; it's not possible," Marina London, a licensed social worker and spokesperson for the Employee Assistance Professionals Association, told BNA.
Employers can help treat worker drug issues, however acquired, by creating a comprehensive program that employees feel safe using, London said. And they can help employees with pain issues avert many of the problems that come from a singular focus on medicines and getting back to work quickly, by taking a more holistic approach.
Ideally an employer program would have the support of top management, be integrated with health care benefits, and be well communicated, London said.
According to the latest figures from health care information giant IMS Health, over 120 million prescriptions for controlled substance painkillers are dispensed annually.
These substances include codeine and codeine-combination medicines, synthetic narcotic analgesics, and morphine/opium derivatives--powerful analgesics that also carry a severe danger of addiction.
Citing figures from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Omar Manejwala, a physician and medical director at alcohol and drug addiction rehabilitation provider Hazelden, noted in a recent communication with BNA that an estimated 8 percent of the employed population abused drugs within the last month. "That's approximately equivalent to the estimated prevalence of diabetes," which is 8.3 percent, Manejwala said. Drug abuse affects all professions and all socioeconomic classes, he said. "For an employer to believe there is no drug addiction in their workplace would be as absurd as believing there is no diabetes, both of which are treatable chronic diseases," he said.
Manejwala told BNA that painkiller addiction can be a "silent" problem. Individuals may have a valid prescription for the substance they are taking, he said. Further, Manejwala said, unlike alcohol, pills are not likely to be seen and do not emit any telltale odors. In addition, he said, the symptoms of withdrawal are similar to the flu, and thus can be hard to detect.
"It's a big problem," management attorney Nancy Delogu, a Littler Mendelson shareholder who specializes in the area of workplace substance abuse, told BNA. "Prescription drug addiction has skyrocketed in the last five years."
Delogu said employers are not constrained by the Americans With Disabilities Act from terminating workers who are engaged in illicit drug use.
Very often, however, employers call her because they have a good employee they believe is addicted but want to retain. She said she often helps employers draft policies encouraging employees to come forward for help with substance abuse issues before their jobs are impaired.
Westley Clark, a physician and the director of SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, told BNA that employers often over-focus on workers who may be using drugs illicitly--without a prescription and for nonmedical purposes--while not recognizing employees who are misusing painkillers while under a doctor's care.
Both groups can get help from addiction treatment plans, but there is another dimension to the problem of employees whose initial problem began with pain.
While narcotics can help employees dealing with pain, they are not a panacea and should always be used as part of a comprehensive pain management program, Clark said. Effective treatments also can include physical therapy and acupuncture, he said, among other types of care.
Sometimes employees misuse medicine because they are rushing back to work instead of taking the time to recover from an injury or chronic situation, Clark said.
Employers should be aware of the hazards in trying to take a short cut to getting an injured worker back to work quickly, Clark urged. "In our zeal to return to normal, we deny the fact that we have a problem," he said. "Pain medications seem like a panacea," he said, "but you need to acknowledge that you're not up to snuff and there should be no disincentives to gradually returning to normal."
Clark added that physically demanding jobs and jobs where accidents are more apt to occur are particularly likely to have workers who are dealing with how to manage chronic pain.
According to London, when it comes to addressing substance abuse, "the senior executive team sets the tone." She noted that when executives are open about the issues, taking the attitude "All of us have problems, we can all use help," you get the "biggest bang for the buck" with drug treatment programs. "If you just pay but don't support and endorse," she said, it weakens any efforts the company may make.
Some executives feel it makes the company "look bad" to have a drug program, London said, especially in white collar occupations, but being a white collar worker is no protection against suffering from an addiction.
First and foremost, employers should include information about addiction in employee newsletters, post signs indicating the symptoms of addiction and how to confidentially access help, and, for high-risk or safety-sensitive populations, screen for addiction (with urine drug screens, etc.), Manejwala said.
Employers also should remind workers they will not be terminated for seeking help, he added.
Attorney Delogu stressed that even if a manager suspects a drug issue, any conversation with an employee should focus on performance and refer the employee to the EAP for evaluation, if necessary. An employee who is referred for treatment should be treated like anyone else with a health condition and provided their full rights under the ADA and the Family and Medical Leave Act, she said.
If a company tells a worker it suspects he or she is using drugs, the employee could become protected under the ADA's "perceived as" provision, Delogu said. Focus on the absenteeism or other workplace behavior, she advised.
In many cases, employees who have been referred to a rehab program will be asked to sign a "last chance" or "return to work agreement," Delogu noted. These agreements need to be very clear, she said. They may stipulate, for example, that an employee agrees to future drug testing by the employer or that a health care worker will not have access to the narcotics dispensary.
"There's an art" to making sure such agreements cover all the bases, she said.
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Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and isn't this weather awful?
Now we have got that out the way I'd like to show you what I have been up to lately. I came back from Christmas in New York (yup, that happened) with a ring on my finger and a wedding to plan (that happened too) and full of good illustration-y intentions. Aside from a lot of house fronts and logo designs I have been busy sketchbooking and making patterns. I'm working on a self-initiated project about my home and things I associate with home:
And today? Well today was pretty good. I was part of the Scottish Book Trust Illustration Lab - chaired by Viv French and with guest speakers Val Braithwaite (Creative Director at Bloomsbury) and illustrators Catherine Rayner and Nick Sharratt. Here is a sneaky snap I took while looking at Catherine's sketchbooks and dummy books:
I manage to seriously geek out whenever I meet Nick Sharratt and today was no exception. I mumbled something about copying his illustrations from the front covers of my Jacqueline Wilson books when I was about 8, then I got all flustered and ran off. Smooth! That aside, the day was really great. Now I have a brief to get working on to present at our next session in two weeks. Busy busy!


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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
The Empties Post
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My makeup wipes always seem to be on my "empties" list along with my mousse for my hair! Happy Tuesday/Rainy Day!ReplyDelete
Elf products are just so good!! I'm surprised with the Garnier Dry Shampoo - only because I love their products so much, but I've never tried their dry shampoo so I trust you!!ReplyDelete
I should have done this, I swear this week already I've thrown away about 10 empties!ReplyDelete
I have a bag full of empty products in our bathroom and I am pretty sure my fiance thinks I am crazy haha! I always love these posts!ReplyDelete
Oh! I may need to try that bronzer, I struggle to find a light enough bronzer for my pale skin. I recently finished my 'It's A 10 Leave-In Conditioner Plus Keratin' I got as a sample from Ulta, and I need another bottle.ReplyDelete
xoxo jenna @ sincerely jenna marie
PS- I'd love for you to stop by on Thursdays to link up your favorite look!
I haven't tried any of these! And I've yet to find a dry shampoo that I really like, so if you find one, let me know!ReplyDelete
xo Southern Style
good to know about that dry shampoo! i'm always trying out new ones. my favorite right now is the "not your mother's" from CVS!ReplyDelete
I always wondered if more expensive contact solution made a difference. Thanks for the feedback!ReplyDelete
xo, carli
Puppies and Polka Dots
I love these posts! I totally agree that more expensive contact solution makes a huge difference. I love Elf products but haven't tried their bronzer so I'm going to need to look into that one.ReplyDelete
Great post, I'm going to get the foam cleanser. I've been looking for a nice gentle one, so I'll give it a try. And aren't ELF products great?!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 7, 2014 at 1:53 PM
Good reviews and I'm so glad to know the Garnier dry shampoo is a bust! Thank you!ReplyDelete
I love reading empties posts, it's always nice to see what people are using and what they like and don't like! That dry shampoo definitely sounds like a bust- good for you for finishing it up though :)ReplyDelete
Empties are always such good posts! I've always liked Neutrogena's face washes too!ReplyDelete
I hated that dry shampoo, too! It's just not good.ReplyDelete
I love that face wash! It's totally one of my favs as well! Glad to hear that Elf blush was good their stuff is so hit and miss for me!ReplyDelete
Now that I'm losing my tan, I need to invest in a good bronzer! I also sometimes feel guilty because I have so many products that I don't empty completely, looks like you get your moneys worth!ReplyDelete
I like a good "empties" post too!! I love neutregena products too and I've tried several different dry shampoo's and there are many that are terrible!! I'm using Dove's right now and I'm really like it because it has a good smell to it too!ReplyDelete
Girl I agree with your review on the dry shampoo! I was so dissapointed with it that it made its way right to the trash. It made my hair almost feel weighed down and greaser.. if that is possible for a dry shampoo to do?! I love your product reviews!!! This is a super cute way to do it!ReplyDelete
Brittney Marie
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This is such a good idea for a post. I've never tried any dry shampoos probably cause I have curly hair and I just feel like it won't work. Elf products are on my list, love the price :)ReplyDelete
I have 2 MAC shadows that are on my empties list, and I always repurchase them when I run out. All that glitters and Retrospec are my go to everyday colors, love them!ReplyDelete
Love it! I did this post last week and am doing my second part tomorrow! xoReplyDelete
I love my apriot face scrub by St Ives! I've used it up and rebought it many times. I don't use up as many products as I probaby should though :/ReplyDelete
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I totally agree with you on that dry shampoo! I heard so many people raving about it, but I really thought it did absolutely nothing. I think Batiste will forever be my favourite!ReplyDelete


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It's one of modern rock's most heartwarming Cinderella stories. Christina Perri left her small Pennsylvania town for Hollywood on her 21st birthday, got married, dabbled in music-video production, then divorced a year and a half later and fled back home. Defeated, she spun all her breakup frustration into a spare, shimmering anthem called "Jar of Hearts," then rolled the dice on Los Angeles one more time. A wise move.
"And now I'm still in that whirlwind that started at 8 p.m. on June 30th, 2010," the whiskey-throated diva declares, recalling the exact moment in time that her career caught fire, literally overnight. "I still get kind of crazy and scared and nervous and overwhelmed, so that I don't think — I just go. But I have my quiet little moments before bed and when I wake up in the morning, where I'm just like 'Holy cannoli! I get to wake up and play music today! I get to meet a roomful of people who might feel better after they hear my songs!'"
Perri recalls everything about that fateful evening in June as if it were yesterday: How until then, she'd been struggling through a waitress job at the Melrose Café while writing and recording in her off-hours. And how her friend passed "Jar of Hearts" along to the choreographer for FOX TV's reality series So You Think You Can Dance, where it made the cut and would be featured that night in a performance by Billy Bell and Kathryn McCormick. And best of all, she was invited to the frou-frou taping.
"So I took off that day, got my hair done, and I was like 'This could be cool,'" says the 24-year-old, who just recently released her long-awaited lovestrong debut that includes the now-signature song. "And there's actually a YouTube video of me and my best friend driving to the show, going 'Oh my God! This is gonna be so much fun!'
"But what really happened was, at 8 o'clock, my whole life changed, because I'd put "Jar of Hearts" up on iTunes, thinking 'Well, maybe the people who watch this show will go on iTunes and buy the single if they hear it. Or if they even notice it.' And what happened is gonna go down in history — 220,000 people downloaded it. All before I ever signed a record deal."
The next day, she quit her café gig and watched, dumbstruck, as her single skyrocketed onto the charts. Eventually, it would land her a contract with Atlantic Records.
"'Jar of Hearts' broke every rule in the book for radio," she says. "Radio didn't want to play it at all, but it just went and broke down every wall."
But Perri's no one-hit wonder. The delicately plucked, timpani-thundering follow-up ballad "Arms" has already shown her staying power, and more potential smashes beckon, like the orchestral "The Lonely" and a gorgeous acoustic exercise called "Penguin."
There's an honesty to Perri's work that marks her as a songwriter to watch in years to come. And don't expect Auto-Tune any time soon.
"I don't use that stuff because I'm not embarrassed of imperfection — I don't know anybody who's perfect in real life, so I don't ever wanna come across like that. That's just soooo wrong, for little girls who live in the Midwest to think this person's perfect. No, nobody is."


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Marco Rubio Blames Media for Repeating Himself Over, and Over, and Over, and Over and Over at Debate
It was devastating.
FOX News put together a montage of Marco Rubio's rehearsed Obama line at last Saturday night's GOP Debate.
Marco repeated the same rehearsed line 5 times at debate.
Even after Governor Christie called him out on it he couldn't stop repeating it.
It was like listening to a scratched record.
Marco Rubio blamed the media Wednesday for its coverage of his record-scratching performance at the debate last Saturday night.
Politico reported:
Marco Rubio accepted the blame for his disappointing fifth-place finish in New Hampshire but also pointed to another culprit: the media.
"What happened is obviously Saturday night the debate went the way it went, and then just the media coverage over the last 72 hours was very negative about it and so forth," Rubio said Wednesday on "Fox & Friends." "So the last thing voters heard going into the booth yesterday was, you know, something bad happened Saturday night. And so it made it very difficult for us to get any other message across."
Rubio was excoriated following Saturday's debate after Chris Christie called the Florida senator out for his "memorized 25-second speech" — a line Rubio used several times in the debate about how President Barack Obama "knows exactly what he's doing" and vowed to keep using on the trail despite the harsh criticism.
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Tomorrow will mark the first year wedding anniversary of Kate Middleton and Prince William, and it got me thinking about all the amazing outfits Kate has worn over the past year. Pre-wedding Kate's outfits were gorgeous, but post-wedding they have simply been spectacular. There have been some glamorous ball gowns, casual ensembles, wonderful wedding outfits and amazing royal appointment numbers. Thinking about which outfit would take the number one position in my 'Top Ten Kate Outfits 2011/12' was tough, and I still haven't been able to pick my absolute favourite, but I do know that one outfit springs to mind and would definitely be a contender.
In 2011, Kate stepped out with Prince William and Prince Harry to watch the Epsom Derby, which was at the time the biggest gathering of the Royal Family since the royal wedding.
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Three star boutique hotel "Orbel Spa" is located in the high part of Dobrinishte near the mineral springs.Dobrinishte is a town, neigbouring ski resort Bansko. The hotel is open year round and offers opportunities for recreation, sport, travel, seminars and other events.
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Hotel "Orbel Spa" is situated at the east part of Dobrinishte, just above the mineral springs - with a beautiful view to Pirin, Rila and the Rodope mountains. Dobrinishte town is situated 156km away from Sofia and only 6km from ski tracks of the world famous ski resort Bansko.
Address: 29 Han Asparuh Str., Dobrinishte 2777, Dobrinishte
Distance to ski lift:
Distance to center: 410m
Distance to airport: 170km to Airport Sofia
Distance to bus station: 1km
Distance to railway station: 1km
Distance to cash machine: 1km
Distance to exchange office: 6km to Bansko
Distance to restaurants: 500m
Distance to shops: 300m
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There is a possibility to place a roll-away (additional) bed in a Twin Room and 2 additional beds in the Apartments. There are baby cots available as well. The hotel disposes of a newly opened outdoor swimming pool with dimensions 12m and depth 1.30m. Both swimming pools are with mineral water.
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Day 1 Arrive Phuket airport (airfare c/o guest), proceed to Phuket Half day city tour
Visit - Wat Chalong Temple, Phuket View Point, Pass China Town (the Sino Portuguese house owners were Chinese who emigrated from Penang.) Last stop at Wang Talang Complex & Souvenir Shop. Lunch excluded.
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Blogging with style and substance, May Contain Nuts is a blog about reading, writing, fatherhood, movies and pretty much anything else that pops into my head. All material, copyright ©2014 Michael Malone. All rights reserved. Material here may not be used in any medium without the permission of the author. His latest book, written with Bashir Saoudi is, The Guillotine Choice
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Pants on Fire ...
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Hey, I lie and try to convince you there's a whole race of people living in a galaxy far away.ReplyDelete
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Time will tell, Alex. Or will it ...?Delete
It really is about finding the truth inside the lie, isn't it? Er, that may or may not be the truth, I don't really trust myself anymore.ReplyDeleteReplies
You could tie yourself up on knots with that kind of thinking, LG.Delete
It's great being able to make things up and be paid for it!ReplyDeleteReplies
Absolutely, Rosemary. It's all a form of play innit? And to get (some) money for doing it is a bonus.Delete
Hi Michael, so pleased about the book and so sorry I missed the launch night at the Library. Hope to see you soon at AWC:-) Well done:-)ReplyDelete
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Focal neurologic signs
Focal neurologic signs also known as focal neurological deficits or focal CNS signs are impairments of nerve, spinal cord, or brain function that affects a specific region of the body, e.g. weakness in the left arm, the right leg, paresis, or plegia.
Focal neurological deficits may be caused by a variety of medical conditions such as head trauma,[1] tumors or stroke; or by various diseases such as meningitis or encephalitis or as a side effect of certain medications such as those used in anesthesia.[2]
Synkinesis is a neurological soft sign.[3]
Frontal lobe signs[edit]
Frontal lobe signs usually involve the motor system and may include many special types of deficit, depending on which part of the frontal lobe is affected:[citation needed]
- unsteady gait (unsteadiness in walking)
- muscular rigidity, resistance to passive movements of the limbs (hypertonia)
- paralysis of a limb (monoparesis) or a larger area on one side of the body (hemiparesis)
- paralysis head and eye movements
- inability to express oneself linguistically, described as an expressive aphasia (Broca's aphasia)
- focal seizures that may spread to adjacent areas (Jacksonian seizure)
- grand mal or tonic-clonic seizures
- changes in personality such as disinhibition, inappropriate jocularity, rage without provocation; or loss of initiative and concern, apathy, akinetic mutism, general retardation
- "frontal release" signs, i.e. reappearance of primitive reflexes such as the snout reflex, the grasp reflex, and the palmar-mental reflex
- unilateral loss of smell (anosmia)
Parietal lobe signs[edit]
Parietal lobe signs usually involve somatic sensation, and may include:
- impairment of tactile sensation
- impairment of proprioception, i.e. postural sensation and sensation of passive movement
- sensory and visual neglect syndromes, i.e. inability to pay attention to things in certain parts of the person's sensory or spatial environment; this may be as extreme as denial of a limb
- loss of ability to read, write, or calculate (dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia)
- loss of ability to find a defined place (geographical agnosia)
- loss of ability to identify objects based on touch (astereognosia)
Temporal lobe signs[edit]
Temporal lobe signs usually involve auditory sensation and memory, and may include:
- deafness without damage to the structures of the ear, described as cortical deafness
- tinnitus, auditory hallucinations
- loss of ability to comprehend music or language, described as a sensory aphasia (Wernicke's aphasia)
- amnesia, memory loss (affecting either long- or short-term memory or both)
- other memory disturbances, such as déjà vu
- complex, multimodal hallucinations
- complex partial seizures (temporal lobe epilepsy)
Occipital lobe signs[edit]
Occipital lobe signs usually involve visual sensation, and may include:
- total loss of vision (cortical blindness)
- loss of vision with denial of the loss (Anton's syndrome)
- loss of vision on one side of the visual field of both eyes (homonymous hemianopsia)
- visual agnosias, i.e. inability to recognize familiar objects, colors, or faces
- visual illusions such as micropsia (objects appear smaller) and macropsia (objects appear larger)
- visual hallucinations, displaying elementary forms, such as zig-zags and flashes, in one half of the visual field only for each eye (in contrast, temporal lobe visual hallucinations display complex forms, and fill the entire visual field)
Limbic signs[edit]
Damage to the limbic system involves loss or damage to memory, and may include:
- loss or confusion of long-term memory prior to focal neuropathy (retrograde amnesia)
- inability to form new memories (anterograde amnesia)
- loss of, or reduced emotions (apathy)
- loss of olfactory functions
- loss of decision making ability
Cerebellar signs[edit]
Cerebellar signs usually involve balance and coordination, and may include:
- an ataxic gait with a broad base; the patient falters to the side of the lesion (ataxia)
- inability to coordinate fine motor activities (intention tremor), e.g. "past-pointing" (pointing beyond the finger in the finger-nose test)
- inability to perform rapid alternating movements (dysdiadochokinesia), e.g. inability to rapidly flip the hands
- involuntary horizontal eye movements (nystagmus)
- dysarthria, usually with bilateral lesions; the speech has a halting jerking quality (scanning speech or staccato speech)
Brainstem signs[edit]
Brainstem signs can involve a host of specific sensory and motor abnormalities, depending on which fiber tracts and cranial nerve nuclei are affected.
Spinal cord signs[edit]
Spinal cord signs generally involve unilateral paralysis with contralateral loss of pain sensation
See also[edit]
- ^ Thiruppathy SP, Muthukumar N.Acta Mild head injury: revisited. Neurochir (Wien). 2004 Oct;146(10):1075-82; discussion 1082-3. PMID 15744844
- ^ Thal GD, Szabo MD, Lopez-Bresnahan M, Crosby G. Exacerbation or unmasking of focal neurologic deficits by sedatives. Anesthesiology. 1996 Jul;85(1):21-5; discussion 29A-30A. PMID 8694368
- ^ "Neurological soft signs". Psychology Wiki.
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Despite David Letterman's on air admission of sexual encounters with staffers being all the rage last week, CBS apparently has done everything in its power to eliminate the record of his Thursday evening mea culpa from the popular video website YouTube.
It appears the host of CBS's "Late Show" might have been at the heart of the decision.
Such was reported by the New York Times Sunday:
Keeping quiet about an apparent extortion attempt against David Letterman and "The Late Show," CBS worked over the weekend to stamp out unauthorized copies of the late-night host's televised explanation.
The network did not post official copies of the segment on CBS.com or on YouTube, proving that while media companies are now generally eager to distribute their material on the Web, there are still some TV moments they would rather not spread widely. [...]
Copies of the segment were uploaded almost immediately to YouTube by users, but many of them were flagged by CBS for removal, citing copyright claims. The network did not provide an official copy.
Who might have been responsible for such editing?
CBS's decision to withhold the clips online was prompted by a request from producers at Mr. Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.
Hmmm. Color me unsurprised.
Just for hahas, here's one that was posted on YouTube Sunday. Let's see how long it survives, shall we?
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock...


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AGRICOH represents a formidable platform for studying a variety of health outcomes, including but not restricted to cancer; respiratory, neurologic, and auto-immune diseases; reproductive outcomes; allergic disorders; injuries; and overall mortality in association with a wide array of agricultural exposures in the participating cohort studies. To strengthen research in under-studied settings the consortium strives to identify new participating agricultural cohorts in low- and middle-income countries.
AGRICOH consists of representatives of individual cohort studies and from institutions having special assigned roles such as in coordination or exposure harmonisation. AGRICOH is open to researchers interested in investigating health outcomes in association with exposures present during farming and in the agricultural environment, through AGRICOH members. The consortium is coordinated by a steering group that runs for a term of five years (currently 2016-2020).
AGRICOH Subgroup Cancer Meeting November 2017
On 27th and 28th November AGRICOH members of the Subgroup on Cancer who are actively involved in the combined analyses of three AGRICOH cohorts from France (AGRICAN), Norway (CNAP), and the USA (AHS), met in Utrecht, The Netherlands, hosted by the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) of the University of Utrecht.
The meeting was to finalize analyses of pooling projects on the risk of haematological malignancies in relation to exposure to pesticides and in relation to animal farming. Progress was discussed on further ongoing pooling projects on the use of pesticides in relation to the risk of breast cancer and in relation to the risk of prostate cancer.
Published articles
In the first pooling project within the AGRICOH consortium, Crop-exposure matrices were developed for an assessment of occupational exposure to pesticide active ingredients and chemical groups. An article describing the methodology has been published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Brouwer M, Schinasi L, Beane Freeman LE, Baldi I, Lebailly P, Ferro G, Nordby KC, Schüz J, Leon ME, Kromhout H. Assessment of occupational exposure to pesticides in a pooled analysis of agricultural cohorts within the AGRICOH consortium. Occup Environ Med. 2016 Jun;73(6):359-67. doi:10.1136/oemed-2015-103319. Pubmed
Concerns have been published regarding the article titled "Re: Assessment of occupational exposure to pesticides in a pooled analysis of agricultural cohorts within the AGRICOH consortium." Pubmed A letter to the Editor from the AGRICOH consortium addressing those concerns has also been published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Brouwer M, Schinasi L, Beane Freeman LE, Baldi I, Lebailly P, Ferro G, Nordby KC, Schüz J, Leon ME, Kromhout H. Assessment of occupational exposure to pesticides in a pooled analysis of agricultural cohorts within the AGRICOH consortium: authors' response. Occup Environ Med. 2017 Jan;74(1):81. doi:10.1136/oemed-2016-104110. Pubmed
New AGRICOH Steering Group elected for the term 2016-2020
In December 2015 the new Steering Group was elected for the term from January 2016 to December 2020. The Steering Group discusses general matters of the consortium at bi-monthly conference calls. The composition of the Steering Group is Drs Joachim Schüz (Chair), Isabelle Baldi (Subgroup lead "Neurological"), Laura Beane Freeman (Subgroup lead "Cancer"), Jeroen Douwes, Jane Hoppin (Subgroup lead "Reproductive"), Kristina Kjærheim, Hans Kromhout (Subgroup lead "Exposure"), Pierre Lebailly, Paul Romitti (Subgroup lead "Reproductive").
The 2015 AGRICOH Annual Meeting
On 19th and 20th November Pierre Lebailly and colleagus at the Centre François Baclesse, in Caen, Normandy, France, hosted the 2015 annual AGRICOH consortium meeting. We warmly thank Pierre, Severine, Isabelle and Celine for the great hospitality.
The meeting was very informative with respect to ongoing projects or new project ideas. Forty-five researchers interested in agricultural exposures and various health outcomes, including cancer, met for two days, including several potential new collaborators. 18 AGRICOH consortium members were represented at the meeting. The meeting was also a good opportunity to meet researchers interested in joining AGRICOH.
We are most grateful to the Mayor of Caen for the wonderful dinner organized for the AGRICOH members on Thursday 19th November. Merci bien! .
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July 27th ~ Chapters 21-27 hosted by Jen of In the Closet With a Bibliophile
1. Grizelmore the Goblin has some really weird cravings and eating habits. Tell us about some of your weird eating habits. Bonus point if you can show me a picture!
I get really addicted to sunflower seeds every now and then. They can become a nasty habit when I have cups full of the shells though. I haven't had any in awhile but at one point I was really addicted to them. I really want some now lol
2. In chapter 22 Aiode and her friends try to go and get their instruments replaced at the factory. There are a ton of different instruments there being made for the fairies, but man are they a fortune. Do any of you play any instruments? Have you ever played an instrument? If not, what would you play if you could?
I played the violin for a couple months in fourth grade. I sucked and it hurt my neck and chin so I dropped it.
3. Jason and the band are finally discovered by the elf (with the crazy long name) and Buttercake the freaking adorable unicorn who turns into something not so adorable. If you were a detective who would you choose for your magical accomplice?
My Simba!
4. The book ends on a happy but painful note. What do you think of the ending? Were you happy with the turn of events?
I'm pretty happy with the ending. I definitely need to read the next book. I like that Jason and Erin got together.
5. Tell us your favorite quote(s)/part(s) from the book!
I liked faerie, Buttercup, and of course the romance and adventure.
"You've been dating him since you were a freshman," Jason said. "Nobody else ever gets a chance."
'Right, cause so many guys are lining up at my door."
'I'm trying to," he said.
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In your bag No: 602 – Fernando Callo
In your bag /
by Bellamy /2 min read
In your bag No: 602, Fernando Callo
Wow, today we have a bag all the way from South America, Peru to be precise. I love the fact that we get to see bags from all over the world. Fernando has a great selection for us. Come and check it out.
My name is Fernando Callo and I'm from Peru. I'm currently studying Graphic Design and I've been shooting since 2010 and shooting film since 2011. Now I only shoot film with some old cameras and I specialize in portrait, landscape and a bit of street photography. I also like to write and I'm currently developing a short film.
In my bag are:
-Pentax K1000 with SMC Pentax-M 50mm 1:2 and SMC Pentax-M 135mm 1:3.5
-Konica C35 V (This is exclusively for street photography)
-Yashica Electro 35 GS (This is my "leaks" camera)
-Yashica Pro-50 DX flash and Vivitar 102 flash
-Ilford PAN 400, Kodak TMAX 100, Konica 100 VX, Fujifilm ProPlus II 200, Kodak Gold 400, Fujifilm Superia 200
-Lenovo u400 (portfolio, documents, photoshop, lightroom, etc)
-HTC One S (lightmeter, videocam, music, internet, etc)
-Notebook, Multiliner Artline, Vintage Sunglasses and Kurt Cobain lighter
-The bag it depends on the place
You can find me on my website, facebook, flickr and instagram
Thanks for your time!
Thanks for sharing your bag with us Fernando. I love the Kurt lighter, very cool.
Check out the links and make sure you come and comment.
Keep them coming folks, we need more submissions, so get your bag on Japancamerahunter.com. Send me a hi resolution image of the bag (please make sure it is horizontal) and its contents, with some details about yourself and what you shoot. Oh and don't forget your contact details (twitter, flickr, tumbler et al). Send the bag shots here.
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Tell us more about why you changed so quickly from digital photography to film.
Also tell us about the GS 'leaks' camera and how that works. I have one and it's light-tight.
Hi Dan! I switched to film because I started to read about lomography but I didn't understand too much so I read a lot of books, blogs, etc. One day a friend of mine told me to join him in a lomography workshop and I accepted. I tried a La Sardina (which was my first analog camera) and fell in love immediately. Then I managed to buy an real film camera, in this case an SLR (Pentax K1000). I shot a lot of pictures with this camera and then I started to forget about digital and concentrate more in film which was magic and more real. I move entirely to film in 2012, I don't have a digital camera anymore but I'm planning to buy one just to produce video.
Now, about the Yashica. Well I bought it in a flea market and I didn't notice that had no foam seals, so the first roll I tried was full of leaks which is cool because sometimes I want my pictures to look with this particular "mistake"
I wrote a reply but I don't know why it's not appearing :/


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Knit top: Vivienne Westwood Red Label (old)
Scarf: H&M (2011 collection)
Jeans: Armani Exchange
Leather Brougue Pumps: Dorndorf (old)
I had travelled with train and road trip, walked and hiked till my winter boots had hole on the bottom! I started the Autumn in Germany and continued to Austria to see the leaves turned to red, yellow and orange while some of them were staying green. I love autumn colors since I only could see it in books and TV before I moved to Europe.It's definitely my fave season. However, the snow has been down early this year.
I've been loving dark deep and rich colors since a little girl, especially deep green. Well, i like pink too :). I remembered a zodiac article in news paper that my dad cut for me. It said that my color was deep green like emerald. What do you think i wore this color again? Does it fit me?
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From publisher: Rolfe Horn is a seer in both the real and the other world. He shifts back and forth creating a balance of visual dynamics working as his photographic canvas. It is not the comings to his final destinations that is the goal; it is the curious journey in its wanderings that makes the creative possibilities. — from the Introduction by Dennis High. Whether focusing his lens on soft and misty undergrowth or stark, man-made structures, Rolfe Horn has a natural talent to arrest one's gaze and hold it captive. The striking selection of 28 black-and-white photographs in this, our second monograph of Horn's work, will impress from the very first viewing; the inevitable desire to explore more deeply will uncover significant details that might otherwise go unnoticed. With his subtle use of tone and lighting, this talented young photographer has produced a body of work that is touched with a quietness and an alluring, dream-like quality. This second printing is limited to 500 casebound copies.
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A Florida developer wants to build a $2 billion planned community in southwest Florida. If the plans go through, the community would be the first to be entirely powered by the sun.
The Babcock Ranch development, proposed by developer Kitson & Partners, would be integrated with a 75-megawatt, $350 million photovoltaic solar power plant to be built by utility Florida Power & Light.
That's more power than the proposed 17,000-acre, 45,000-resident city is expected to consume, making it entirely solar powered, at least while the sun is shining.
It would place Babcock Ranch in the running with the Masdar City project to become the first "zero-emissions" city. The $22 billion project from Abu Dhabi's Masdar initiative hopes to eventually host 240 megawatts of solar power ( Abu Dhabi Picks Suntech, First Solar for 10MW Solar Farm in Masdar City).
Like Masdar City, Babcock Ranch also seeks to integrate a host of green characteristics. The development near Fort Myers would sport 6 million square feet of energy efficient buildings and an integrated "smart grid" to let homes and businesses monitor and control their energy consumption.
And both developments hope to draw a host of green technology startups and research projects to their energy efficient, solar-powered office parks. Babcock Ranch is expected to create about 20,000 jobs when built, in what Syd Kitson, chairman and CEO of Kitson & Partners and former NFL lineman, called a "home base for America's future."
Whether or not Babcock Ranch comes to fruition remains an open question, however, given the poor state of the Florida real estate market. Two other large-scale planned communities have failed to be built in Florida in recent years, the New York Times and Time magazine noted.
Kitson & Partners hopes to see construction in mid-2010. The developer already owns the land and has secured state approval of the project.
Florida Power & Light, however, plans to break ground later this year on the 75-megawatt solar plant whether or not Babcock Ranch becomes a reality.
Florida Power & Light plans to break ground on the 75-megawartt solar plant later this year. The utility is already planning a 75-megawatt plant called the Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center, though that project would involve a solar thermal power plant combined with a natural gas-fired power plant.
It also plans to add 35 megawatts of solar photovoltaic power in two projects, one at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the other in Desoto County.
The utility's parent company, FPL Group (NYSE: FPL), has a large portfolio of wind and solar power projects, including the 310-megawatt solar-thermal Solar Electric Generating System in California's Mojave Desert.
But the ongoing recession has led FPL to scale back on some of its renewable energy plans (see FPL Cuts Wind Power Plans).
Join industry leaders and influencers at Surviving the Shakeout: Greentech Media's 2009 Solar Industry Summit in Phoenix, Ariz., April 14–15.