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PATNA, India — A week after an Indian school served toxic food to students, leaving 23 dead, its headmistress remains missing along with her husband, police said Tuesday.
A nine-member team of officers has been formed to investigate and track down the principal, Meena Kumari, police superintendent Sujeet Kumar said.
Police presence is heavy in the village in Bihar state, especially around the principal's home.
Authorities have recorded statements from 40 witnesses, including child survivors of the July 16 food poisoning, Kumar said.
Residents went on a rampage a day after the toxic meals were served in the local government school, torching at least four police cars.
In acts of protest, parents of at least three children have buried their kids near the school — one right in front of the building, according to officials.
Police will ensure the headmistress' safety when she resurfaces or is taken into custody for questioning, authorities said.
Pesticides have been found in the food and oil used in the school lunch that sickened 25 others on July 16 in northern India's Bihar state, police said.
Forensic scientists found monocrotophos, an organophosphorus compound used as an insecticide, "in the samples of oil from the container, food remains on the platter and mixture of rice with vegetables in an aluminum utensil," Assistant Director General Ravinder Kumar told reporters in Patna.
Monocrotophos, which is used for agricultural purposes, is toxic to humans.
The cook, Manju Devi, was hospitalized after eating the food she prepared, doctors said.
Devi told police that the headmistress did not heed her warning that the mustard oil used to prepare lunch looked and smelled bad. Instead, the headmistress insisted she continue preparing the meal, officials said.
An investigation found compromised hygiene and sanitation in the school, which was running from a single-room makeshift building.
Experts have said the deaths underscore the problem of food safety in the country, and have prompted discussion on how to improve national school food programs amid news that authorities had warned months ago of safety problems with the state's school meal program.
Authorities in Bihar — one of India's poorest states — announced that a committee would be formed to improve food preparation in rural schools.
The Bihar students, who were ages 5 to 12, started vomiting soon after their first bite of lunch; some fainted, authorities said.
According to the Indian government, nearly half of India's children are malnourished. Since a Supreme Court decision in 2001, government schools in India have been required to provide free meals to students younger than 13.
CNN's Harmeet Singh reported from Putna and Tom Watkins wrote it from Atlanta.
Harmeet Shah Singh and Tom Watkins | CNN

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Writing for Success -- A Seminar and Workshop
- When:
- Location:
- John and Frances Angelos Law Center
- Room:
- 12th Floor
- Description:
Excited about starting law school but nervous about having to dust off your writing skills?
This summer, get a jump on perfecting your writing, before you start law school.
Join Claudia Diamond, UB School of Law director of academic support and John Chapin, UB's writing coordinator for a fast-paced, engaging writing seminar and workshop. You'll review best writing practices, develop skills for discovering common errors and learn the universal rules of organizing your writing for maximum effectiveness. Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP by July 18 to Katie Rolfes at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Contact Name:
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Appropriate accommodations for individuals with disabilities will be provided upon request 10 days prior to a campus event and 30 days prior to an event requiring travel.


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Friday, 4 December 2009
I Nuovi Holiday Coffret
Labels: Holiday '09, I Nuovi
3 comments:
- Unknown said...
very good post
- 4 December 2009 at 16:31
- Vonvon said...
Wow!! So much flexibility in getting the coffret. Can you please do a write up on the different products in the coffret? The palettes look interesting. Thank you, Haru!
- 5 December 2009 at 13:39
- Haru said...
Hi Vonvon,
Sorry, I don't have the detailed info on the products in the coffret. But it looks like a lip palette, an eye palette, a couple of eyeliners, lipsticks, loose powder and shimmer powder. If I get more info, I will post it.
- 5 December 2009 at 13:55
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Prom has a significant meaning to most young girls. It might be their first chance to wear a formal and seductive dress. Many of the famous designers from around the world have designed numerous formal dresses which are suitable for prom, and as you plan your big night you can easily find a gorgeous prom dress created by one of these top designers. When you shop online for your unique prom outfit, you will find these names come up more often. All have high reputations for gorgeous lines and colors. Know more about their design featuresContemporary Living so that you can find your favorite prom gown easily.
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The 2012 BP Statistical Review, covering 2011 world energy data, has been released. With global oil production roughly flat for a seventh year, coal once again gained global share of total primary energy consumption. World consumption of coal rose 5.4% in 2011, as oil consumption eked out a very small, 0.7% gain.
As for other sources, nuclear use fell notably by -4.3%. And world natural gas consumption was restrained to a 2.2% advance, owing to a large retreat in European demand. Finally, while starting from a small position, both hydropower and renewables (biofuels, solar, wind) once again made very strong gains.
As a result, coal's share of primary energy consumption has now risen above 30%, as coal continues its relentless attack on oil's market share. Nuclear's share falls below 5%, while natural gas and hydropower maintained their positions compared to 2010.
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Brendan "Kids' Choice" Fraser returns to the multiplex daycare as "Mo" Folchart: an antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In Inkheart's opening chapter, he's identified as a member of a race of "Silvertongues" — those who, when they read aloud, can suck people out of and into the texts they're reciting from. Mo has abstained from practicing his gift since, when reading from some limited-press-run sub-Terry Brooks fantasy, the titular Inkheart, his wife was slurped off into limbo, just as a motley assortment of the book's rough-and-ready characters popped off the page.
All of this is retrospectively revealed a decade later to Mo's daughter, now-adolescent Meggie (Eliza Bennett), when Inkheart's villains catch up with Dad while he's scouring obscure continental booksellers looking for a copy of the book so he can reverse the switch. The capo of the baddies, Capricorn (a waxen, sardonic, delectable Andy Serkis), doesn't want to go back into bindery and so orders copies of Inkheart put out of print by a private army of book-burning brigands. His henchmen are a crossbreed of Blackshirt thugs and a mid-'90s nü-metal band, operating from the castle whose dungeon holds a menagerie of literary beasties including Frank Baum flying monkeys, a J.M. Barrie ticking croc, and a Bulfinch minotaur.
Inkheart's source is the inaugural title in the lucrative Inkworld series by author Cornelia Funke — "Germany's most successful children's book author of all time," per the media kit. Strong international box office, for which the Anglo-American cast and built-in homeland fanbase seem well designed, should line up the financing for a trilogy.
This opening petition for franchise is an upscale number, with resort-town Italian Riviera locales, top-shelf English actors (Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent), and a nicely rendered, smoldering CGI end boss. The exteriors are passably picturesque but never indelible.
Director Iain Softley, the man who honed himself to adapt Wings of the Dove by helming Hackers, is strictly a functionary; it seems as if every concession's been made to keep the book's big cast of characters relatively intact. Condensing 535 pages from the English-language hardcover to a 103-minute runtime — certainly more daunting compressions have succeeded, but there's a palpable feel of pinching here. Without the breathing room for characters to cultivate character, the one-note shtick suffices, gamely appeasing the readership with walk-ons ("Hey, there's Basta!"). A prickly apprenticeship between Bettany's vagabond magician Dustfinger and Arabian Nights extra Farid (Rafi Gavron) never engages. It's only thanks to reminders from the rest of the cast that one understands that Mirren, as Meg's Great Aunt, is "lovably eccentric."
It all smacks of that overdone "passion for literature" common in off-putting English teachers who send any healthy-minded kid running from books at top speed. Mirren's villa has a dream library that might grace a box of Celestial Seasonings tea, replete with an oh-so-cozy windowside nook. Bibliophile characters exclaim: "What in the name of Chaucer's beard?", "For the love of Thomas Hardy!", and "Great galloping Knut Hamsuns!" (I made just one of those up.) Fraser intones, "The written word: It's a powerful thing," as though sitting for his "Reading Is FUNdamental" poster.
This is the sort of thing routinely let to pass because it "introduces young people to a love of reading" in a world perpetually panicked about the newest generation not learning how books work. (The introduction seemingly consists of convincing youths that sitting with a book is the sensory-assault equivalent of a Six Flags visit.) All of which is really just as likely to introduce young people to reading bilge. And anyway: Why being shut in with Boy Wizards or Tolkien's drudging mythos should be inherently preferable to, say, working on a jump shot or watching SpongeBob SquarePants is quite beyond me — unless you happen to be in the young adult racket, that is.


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Bio::Tools::EPCR - Parse ePCR output and make features
# A simple annotation pipeline wrapper for ePCR data
# assuming ePCR data is already generated in file seq1.epcr
# and sequence data is in fasta format in file called seq1.fa
use Bio::Tools::EPCR;
use Bio::SeqIO;
my $parser = Bio::Tools::EPCR->new(-file => 'seq1.epcr');
my $seqio = Bio::SeqIO->new(-format => 'fasta', -file => 'seq1.fa');
my $seq = $seqio->next_seq || die("cannot get a seq object from SeqIO");
while( my $feat = $parser->next_feature ) {
# add EPCR annotation to a sequence
my $seqout = Bio::SeqIO->new(-format => 'embl');
This object serves as a parser for ePCR data, creating a Bio::SeqFeatureI for each ePCR hit. These can be processed or added as annotation to an existing Bio::SeqI object for the purposes of automated annotation.
User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to the Bioperl mailing list. Your participation is much appreciated.
email@example.com - General discussion
http://bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists - About the mailing lists
Please direct usage questions or support issues to the mailing list:
rather than to the module maintainer directly. Many experienced and reponsive experts will be able look at the problem and quickly address it. Please include a thorough description of the problem with code and data examples if at all possible.
Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track of the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web:
Email jason-at-bioperl.org
The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _
Title : new
Usage : my $epcr = Bio::Tools::EPCR->new(-file => $file,
-primary => $fprimary,
-source => $fsource,
-groupclass => $fgroupclass);
Function: Initializes a new EPCR parser
Returns : Bio::Tools::EPCR
Args : -fh => filehandle
-file => filename
-primary => a string to be used as the common value for
each features '-primary' tag. Defaults to
'sts'. (This in turn maps to the GFF 'type'
tag (aka 'method')).
-source => a string to be used as the common value for
each features '-source' tag. Defaults to
'e-PCR'. (This in turn maps to the GFF 'source'
-groupclass => a string to be used as the name of the tag
which will hold the sts marker namefirst
attribute. Defaults to 'name'.
Title : next_feature
Usage : $seqfeature = $obj->next_feature();
Function: Returns the next feature available in the analysis result, or
undef if there are no more features.
Example :
Returns : A Bio::SeqFeatureI implementing object, or undef if there are no
more features.
Args : none
Title : source
Usage : $obj->source($newval)
Example :
Returns : value of source (a scalar)
Args : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)
Title : primary
Usage : $obj->primary($newval)
Example :
Returns : value of primary (a scalar)
Args : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)
Title : groupclass
Usage : $obj->groupclass($newval)
Example :
Returns : value of groupclass (a scalar)
Args : on set, new value (a scalar or undef, optional)
To install BioPerl, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm BioPerl
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install BioPerl
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.


text: Due to production issues at our printing facility, distribution of the print edition of The Herald Gazette was delayed several hours. Subscribers will get their newspapers in the mail a day late but may drop by the news office at 509 Greenwood Street to pick up a copy. There is a drive through window on the south side of the building that may be utilized so customers don't have to get out of their cars.Subscriptions will be extended to compensate loyal readers.We sincerely regret the delay."This would be a great time for current subscribers who have not utilized the free eEdition to do so. If you are currently a subscriber and need help creating your account for the eEdition feel free to call the office at 770.358.NEWS(6397)," said circulation director Tasha Webster.


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Course pages 2013–14
Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Principal lecturers: Prof Ted Briscoe, Dr Stephen Clark
Taken by: MPhil ACS, Part III
Code: L100
Hours: 16
Prerequisites: None
This module aims to provide a brief introduction to linguistics for computer scientists and then goes on to cover some of the core tasks in natural language processing (NLP), with the emphasis on statistical techniques suitable for the extraction of meaning from large bodies of text.
- Linguistics for NLP – morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics with illustrated application mostly to English [6 lectures, AAC]
- Finite-State/Markovian Techniques – lemmatisation, part-of-speech (PoS) tagging, phrase chunking and named entity recognition (NER) [4 lectures, SC]
- Parsing – grammars, treebanks, representations and evaluation, statistical parse ranking [4 lectures, SC]
- Interpretation – compositional semantics and entailment, pragmatic inference [2 lectures, AAC]
On completion of this module students should:
- understand the basic properties of human languages and be familiar with descriptive and theoretical frameworks for handling these properties;
- understand the design of tools for basic NLP tasks such as tagging and (partial) parsing and be able to apply them to text and evaluate their performance;
- understand some of the basic principles of the representation of linguistic meaning and interpretative inference;
Practical work
- Practical Week 6: (6 hours) PoS tag, chunk, and/or perform NER on a designated text with one or more provided tools. Evaluate the performance of the tools quantitatively and qualitatively.
- Practical Week 8: (6 hours) Parse a designated set of sentences with one or more provided tools, to yield representations of their grammatical relations, phrase structure and/or logical forms. Evaluate the performance of the tools quantitatively and qualitatively.
- There will be four ticked, short, take-home assignments on linguistic analysis during weeks 1-3. Each assignment is worth 5% of the final mark.
- An assessed practical report based on the practicals described above. The practical report will consist of a description of the work done of not more than 5000 words. It will contribute 80% of the final mark.
Recommended reading
Jurafsky, D. & Martin, J. (2008). Speech and language processing. Prentice-Hall (2nd ed.).
L100 Introduction to Natural Language Processing cannot be taken in conjunction with R02 Network Architectures in 2012-13.


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The Rev. William White spent several years with the group we now know as the Founding Fathers. As chaplain to the Continental Congress, he met with them, dined with them, swapped late-night stories with them (his next-door neighbor was Dr. Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence). White's unique role gave him a front row seat to the debates of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and the rest concerning the single most important issue of the day: independence. How could a collection of British colonies live into a new reality as a united, self-governing nation? How could they maintain the best of the values they had inherited while creating a new system that would fit their context? As they deliberated, White listened ... and learned.
White was also an ordained Church of England minister. Having witnessed firsthand the birth of a new Republic, he turned his attention to the labor pains of a Church that could no longer be "of England" in name or composition, but neither could it be wholly unfamiliar. Through the Constitution that White wrote for this Episcopal Church, as it would become known, he helped create "a church government that will contain the constituent principles of the Church of England, and yet be independent of foreign jurisdiction or influence." Actually, this was no newborn he was helping along, but rather an adult child ready to strike out on its own, leaving the nest and creating a life separate from the expectations of its parent.
The Rev. Canon Dr. Robertson continues with his history lesson for the erudition of the Brits, and draws a most inapt parallel with early church beginnings:
That parent, unsurprisingly, did not immediately embrace its child's new status. White used the term "Episcopal," the Greek term for "bishop," to describe this entity, and yet he could not convince Church of England leadership to consecrate indigenous bishops for the fledgling Church. In some ways, the situation was not that different from what was experienced by the first-century believers in Antioch, who desperately wanted the support and connection with the "mother Church," but at the same time were taking steps in their own governance and mission that reflected their geographic and ethnic context, and therefore looked quite different from what the Twelve had started in Jerusalem. Even so, while the English Church used the appointment system to propagate its ecclesiastical hierarchy, American bishops, said White, would be elected . . . and not simply by clergy, but by lay representatives as well. [Obligatory reference to ECUSA's unique polity omitted.] And in a land where there would be no king, neither would there be an archbishop. Rather, the head of this new Church would be a Presiding Bishop, reflecting the principles of the young republic in which this Church had taken root.Frankly, I find it impossible to reconcile the good Canon's version of our Church's history with the known facts. There was no "Presiding Bishop" created by the founding documents to be "the head of this new Church", much less a lead bishop "reflecting the principles of the young republic" -- see the details about the gradual establishment of that office, and its subsequent mushrooming into its current form, in this earlier post.
Through the years, misunderstandings and differences have continued. Oscar Wilde's famous maxim about two peoples separated by a common language has proven true for the Anglican Churches in these lands. It is not simply that different decisions made by one Church are often frustrating to the other. No, it is the difference in processes by which decisions are made in the respective Churches that can mystify and exasperate. Our directness can at times seem to be overly bold and unilateral, while the more nuanced ways of our transatlantic colleagues can appear heavy-handed and non-transparent. Singularly unhelpful labels such as "cowboy diplomacy" or "backroom politics" can prevent the real possibility of mutual understanding and appreciation of both Church's distinct contexts. At its worst, there can be now, as in William White's time, a refusal to see God at work in the other's polity and policies. Different does not have to mean deficient. And if we can let go of the infallibility of our opinions about our own context, perhaps we could learn from the other.
Our forefathers, when they left the land of their nativity, did not leave the bosom of that Church over which your Lordships now preside; but, as well from a veneration for Episcopal government, as from an attachment to the admirable services of our Liturgy, continued in willing connection with their ecclesiastical superiors in England, and were subjected to many local inconveniences, rather than break the unity of the Church to which they belonged.
When it pleased the Supreme Ruler of the universe, that this part of the British empire should be free, sovereign, and independent, it became the most important concern of the members of our Communion to provide for its continuance. . . . [I]n accomplishing of this . . . it was nevertheless their earnest desire and resolution to retain the venerable form of Episcopal government handed down to them, as they conceive, from the time of the Apostles, and endeared to them by the remembrance of the holy Bishops of the primitive Church, of the blessed Martyrs who reformed the doctrine and worship of the Church of England, and of the many great and pious Prelates who have adorned that Church in every succeeding age. But however general the desire of compleating the Orders of our Ministry, so diffused and unconnected were the members of our Communion over this extensive country, that much time and negociation were necessary for the forming a representative body of the greater number of Episcopalians in these States; and owing to the same causes, it was not until this Convention that sufficient powers could be procured for the addressing your Lordships on this subject.
The petition which we offer to your Venerable Body is, that from a tender regard to the religious interests of thousands in this rising empire, professing the same religious principles with the Church of England, you will be pleased to confer the Episcopal character on such persons as shall be recommended by this Church in the several States here represented, full satisfaction being given of the sufficiency of the persons recommended, and of its being the intention of the general body of the Episcopalians in the said States respectively, to receive them in the quality of Bishops.
. . .
Whatever may be the event, no time will efface the remembrance of the past services of your Lordships and your predecessors. The Archbishops of Canterbury were not prevented, even by the weighty concerns of their high stations, from attending to the interests of this distant branch of the Church under their care. The Bishops of London were our Diocesans; and the uninterrupted although voluntary submission of our congregations, will remain a perpetual proof of their mild and paternal government. . . . Our hearts are penetrated with the most lively gratitude by these generous sentiments; the long succession of former benefits passes in review before us; we pray that our Church may be a lasting monument of the usefulness of so worthy a body; and that her sons may never cease to be kindly affectioned to the members of that Church, the Fathers of which have so tenderly watched over her infancy.
For your Lordships in particular, we most sincerely wish and pray, that you may long continue the ornaments of the Church of England, and at last receive the reward of the righteous from the great Shepherd and Bishop of souls.
We are, with all the respect which is due to your exalted and venerable characters and stations,
Your Lordships Most obedient and Most humble Servants,
Christ Church, Philadelphia.
October 5th, 1785.
33. In 1973, after the geographic territory that included San Diego County became part of the newly-formed Diocese of San Diego, the mission congregation at St. John's sought permission from the Diocese to become a parish. In their application, the representatives of the prospective parish promised that St. John's Parish would be bound by and conform to the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and the Diocese.
34. In consideration for promises of subservience to the Constitution and Canons of the Diocese and the Episcopal Church, the Diocese admitted St. John's Fallbrook as a Parish at the Primary Convention of the Diocese on December 7, 1973.
We are unanimous and explicit in assuring your Lordships, that we neither have departed, nor propose to depart from the doctrines of your Church. . . .


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My Google Talk
Back in October, I visited Google Headquarters in Mountainview, California to deliver a Google Talk. You may recall the lunch that I ate while I was there? Now the video of the talk is online and I have to say, it's hard for me to watch–sort of like listening to your own voice on a tape recorder. But I'm thinking you loyal readers may get a kick out of hearing me tell the story of my blog, talking about writing the cookbook, sharing the 10 over-arching lessons I learned cooking with America's best chefs, and seeing me model my very first (and maybe my last) bow-tie. Thanks again to Google for having me!


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2Checkout maximizes online sales conversions by giving global buyers localised payment options.
5LINX Enterprises is an American multi-level marketing company which offers utility and telecommunication services, health insurance, nutritional supplements, and business services.
AAMPP is a music social network created around the needs of musicians, artists, and their fans.
AccessPay was formed in 2012 by a small group of finance and technology professionals who combined their knowledge of global payment processes with a passion for cloud-based technology to create a company with an ambitious mission.
ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments company, powers electronic payments and banking for financial institutions, retailers, billers and processors around the world.
Aconite has been delivering advanced payment solutions to card issuers, processors and service providers since 2000.
Adyen is a technology company that provides a single platform to accept payments anywhere in the world through any sales channel.
AFEX is a trusted global payment and risk management solutions specialist with a heritage that dates back to 1979.
Airtel Limited is a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa.
Aite Group is an independent research and advisory firm focused on business, technology and regulatory issues and their impact on the financial services industry.
AlgoCharge, is a leading Level 1 PCI-DSS certified payment service provider offering local and global payment solutions for merchants of any size and/or domiciliation.


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Obama Tackles Rx Drug Shortages
A pharmacy buyer at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City holds a tray of magnesium sulfate, a drug in short supply.Jim Urquhart/AP
President Obama is wielding a unilateral prerogative of his office – the executive order – to get something done about a worsening shortage of essential drugs.
It's a problem that earlier this month one administration official called "a dire public health situation." Many thousands of patients with cancer, life-threatening infections, cardiac disease, severe gastrointestinal disorders and many other conditions aren't able to get the drugs they need.
Every day, doctors, nurses and pharmacy managers scramble to find workarounds. Often, they say, patients aren't aware they're getting a substitute for the preferred, first-line drug that health providers would normally use.
With no immediate prospect of a congressional fix, the president is extending his recent penchant for executive orders to the drug shortage problem.
His order has three elements:
- The Food and Drug Administration will broaden its requirements and voluntary requests for drug manufacturers to report potential supply problems.
- The FDA will speed up reviews of manufacturers' applications to begin or alter production of a drug in potentially short supply.
- The FDA will tell the Justice Department about possible instances of collusion or price gouging among drug distributors taking advantage of shortages.
The White House says it's beefing up the FDA's staff to carry out the new mandates.
These are stopgaps. Obama also is expected to announce his support for pending legislation that would require drug manufacturers to notify the FDA six months in advance of a potential shortage. At the moment, companies are only required to notify the government is they're discontinuing production of drugs deemed medically necessary.
And expert observers say that legislation, if it passes, will only be a partial solution to a problem that's rooted in the gradual consolidation of drug production – especially the manufacture of injectable drugs used mainly in hospitals. Most of these are older, generic medicines with thin profit margins.
The Department of Health and Human Services has just put out a 20-page economic analysis of the problem.
Only seven companies make the vast majority of these drugs. So when a particular company has contamination on its production line, or can't get an essential ingredient from abroad, other manufacturers can't pick up the slack.
Meanwhile, the problem is getting steady worse. Last year the FDA reported 178 drug shortages, although some sources say the number was really 211. Earlier this month, the number for 2011 had already surpassed that.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Last year, Adam Scott barely lost the Masters on Sunday. This year, he's working hard not to lose it on Thursday.
The Aussie, still in search of his first major title, made an all-world par on the par-5 second hole to stay at the even mark early on a dewy morning at Augusta National.
But he followed with two quick bogeys to go to 2 over — already four shots behind three-time major champion Padraig Harrington, who made eagle on No. 2 to quickly reach 2-under par.
Scott's par on the very reachable second hold might have felt like something better. He hit his tee shot into a creek, well left of the fairway, then after taking a drop, clanked his next shot off a tree. But it landed in the walkway about 100 yards from the hole and Scott pitched to near tap-in range. A par, and another reason to be thankful they only ask for numbers, not pictures, on that scorecard.
On the first hole, his approach to the green landed short and when he arrived, he saw a ball dirtied by a glob of mud — a sure sign that even though the greens might be receptive, the course was certainly playing longer after two days of rain.
More thunderstorms were predicted for Thursday afternoon, with Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson, Luke Donald and defending champion Charl Schwatzel among those still waiting to tee off.
The only player with more than one birdie on his scorecard in the early going was 53-year-old Larry Mize, in the field on the 25th anniversary of his Masters victory. He had birdies on No. 2 and on both par-3s on the front side. He also had three bogeys and headed to the seventh tee at even and still looking for his first par.
Harrington, co-winner of Wednesday's par-3 contest, was one shot ahead of Ben Crenshaw, Stewart Cink, Aaron Baddeley and Martin Kaymer, who made two birdies after finishing with bogey on the first hole when his third shot — a chip from the side of the green — landed short and rolled back off the putting surface.
The proceedings got underway with Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer all hitting their ceremonial first tee shots in the fairway. Mickelson, who had the day's final tee time, was on hand in his green jacket to watch the legends hit their perfect shots.
"I don't think any of us can see that far," Nicklaus said. "We can hear them all land, though."
Scott was one of the eight players on the top of the leaderboard last year on the back nine of the final round. He had a chance coming down the stretch, but Schwartzel made four straight birdies to close it out and pull away.
"Maybe as a player I learned a few things," Scott said in an interview earlier this week. "I think it was the first time late on a Sunday that I had a chance. I walked to the 17th tee with a one shot lead and parred the last two holes, which I thought was pretty good on those holes. And normally, that is pretty good."
Schwartzel was better. And yet, with so many of the top players playing well as they approached the season's first major, the South African was hardly the headliner as he began his defense.
He's trying to become the first player to repeat as Masters champion since Woods in 2001-02.
"There's a lot of talk now," Schwartzel said. "Tiger has obviously won again and he's really playing very good. Rory is playing well. Phil is playing well. Luke. All of the guys. But to me, I go about my business as I normally do, and I feel, and I know, if I play my best, I can compete with anyone."


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The government may be required to pay billions of dollars in emergency care claims to veterans after a federal court ruled this week that the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly denied reimbursements for such care received at non-VA facilities.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims said federal law mandated the VA to pay the emergency medical expenses if they are not covered by private insurance.
The case stemmed in part from a reimbursement sought by Coast Guard veteran Amanda Wolfe, who had a bout of appendicitis in September 2016 and sought care at a nearby civilian hospital because the nearest VA hospital was three hours away. She filed a claim for $2,558.54 of the $22,348.25 bill, representing the amount not covered by her employer-sponsored health insurance. The VA denied the claim, saying that amount was for copayments, coinsurance and deductibles that it was not required to pay.
The court, in its ruling Monday, disagreed. It said the VA must reimburse veterans for out-of-pocket emergency medical bills not covered by private insurance, other than copayments.
The VA said Wednesday it was aware of the decision and reviewing it. It was the second time the VA had been overruled on its interpretation of how veterans should be reimbursed on emergency claims, the first being in 2015.
Because the case was ruled a class action, the National Veterans Legal Services Program, which helped represent plaintiffs, said any affected veteran must be reimbursed. It said based on the VA's past estimates, the decision could cost the department $1.8 billion to $6.5 billion in reimbursements to hundreds of thousands of veterans with claims filed or pending from 2016 through 2025.
"The court's decision rights a terrible injustice and its order ensures that veterans who were unjustly denied reimbursement for critical emergency treatment at non-VA facilities will finally be reimbursed," said NVLSP Executive Director Bart Stichman.


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Editor's Note: Benjamin Radcliff is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of the book "The Political Economy of Human Happiness."
Story highlights
Benjamin Radcliff: Well-being should not be decided by the indifferent marketplace
Radcliff: Research shows happier people live in places with generous social safety nets
In Western nations, he says, the quality of life for all increases with more liberal policies
He says this applies to U.S. states: People happier with less insecurity and less poverty
The battle in Washington over the budget is not mere partisan squabbling. What we are debating is the perennial argument between right and left: Do we as a society prefer to leave the well-being of our people to the indifference of the market economy, or do we believe that government also has an important role to play?
We are accustomed to thinking of the argument between left and right as an ideological or philosophical debate, so it has no "correct" answer. But there is an answer: We are entirely capable of knowing what policies best contribute to people leading positive and rewarding lives.
In recent decades, social scientists have been studying human happiness in the same way we study any other human attribute. Vast new multidisciplinary research has emerged around the proposition that it is possible to empirically measure the extent to which people view their lives as satisfying.
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So what conditions best promote more rewarding lives?
The answer is simple and unequivocal: Happier people live in countries with a generous social safety net, or, more generally, countries whose governments "tax and spend" at higher rates, reflecting the greater range of services and protections offered by the state. (These findings come from analysis of data from the World Values Surveys for the 21 Western industrial democracies from 1981 to 2007 for my book "The Political Economy of Human Happiness." Similar findings have been reported in peer-reviewed journals like "Social Research" and the "Social Indicators Research.")
The relationship could not be stronger or clearer: However much it may pain conservatives to hear it, the "nanny state," as they disparagingly call it, works. Across the Western world, the quality of human life increases as the size of the state increases. It turns out that having a "nanny" makes life better for people. This is borne out by the U.N. 2013 "World Happiness Report," which found Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Sweden the top five happiest nations.
Conservatives may be equally troubled to learn that labor unions have a similar effect. Not only are workers who belong to unions happier, but the overall rate of happiness for everyone – members and nonmembers – increases dramatically as the percentage of workers who belong to unions grows, reflecting the louder political voice that organization gives to ordinary citizens.
All this remains true when controlling for the many other things that might also affect quality of life, such as income, age, gender, marital status, or their country's culture, history, or level of economic development. Critically, "big government" and labor unions also promote happiness not merely for those toward the bottom or middle of the income distribution, but for everyone, rich and poor, men and women, conservatives and liberals.
The same pattern emerges when looking at our states. People who live in states with higher welfare spending, more organized labor, more liberal state governments, more regulation of business, and a greater recent history of control by the Democratic Party, are all more satisfied with their lives, regardless of income, and again when controlling for other factors that are likely to affect well-being.
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The reasons the progressive agenda promotes happiness are complex, but stated simply, the more we supplement the cold efficiency of the market with interventions that reduce poverty, insecurity, and inequality, the more we improve quality of life for everyone.
As poet and novelist Wendell Berry observed, "Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy." It takes no great insight to see that a world with less insecurity and less poverty, which is to say, a world more governed by justice and mercy, is one that people of all social classes will find more satisfying.
Many benefit directly from social programs or the representation of their interests by unions; others worry less than they otherwise might because they know these institutions exist when needed; and everyone benefits indirectly by living in a society which is relatively free of social pathologies, such as the higher rates of violent crime, that come with the poverty, inequality and insecurity that liberal policies help ameliorate.
The data demonstrate that this is not merely softhearted wishful thinking. Whatever else unions and liberal public policies might do, they help make the world a better place to the extent that we believe human happiness is the appropriate metric to measure such judgments.
That in turn suggests the most intellectually compelling strategy available to progressives in the battle for public opinion: Traditional New Deal policies are precisely those that best allow citizens to pursue the happiness that the founders of our republic so famously argued to be the final justification for the American experiment.
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President Obama said some good things in Israel. The good things he said contradicted the thesis of his first-term approach to Israel. In the style of what might be called Obama knows best — knows best what is good for you — he also said some foolish and patronizing things that represented continuity with his first-term approach. In his speech to Israeli students, for example, Obama gave the impression that continuing war on Israel emanating from Gaza and the West Bank derives from the Israel's lack of willingness to take risks for peace.
At a press conference yesterday in Ramallah, Obama addressed the assembled journalists while standing under a banner of Yasser Arafat. This was notable, so it seems to me, in at least two respects. First, Arafat was the man who couldn't say yes to Israel or to peace. Abbas was his partner in crime and war, and the war continues. One wonders how many times Israel is supposed to trade for its right to exist.
Second, Arafat was a cold-blooded murderer of Americans including United States Ambassador to Sudan Cleo Noel. It is a gross humiliation of the United States for Obama to stand willingly under Arafat's banner. It may be less humiliating than having repeatedly received Arafat at the White House in person as an honored guest, as did Bill Clinton, but it is a humiliation nonetheless.
When Obama spoke at Georgetown Univeristy, the White House asked the university to cover up prominent Christian symbols that would have appeared behind him. The symbols — the letters "IHS" which stands for Jesus Christ, and a cross — were engraved on a pediment that stood behind the stage from which Obama delivered his address. The university covered them upon request.
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Carson likens Obamacare to slavery
Dr. Ben Carson, a conservative commentator and neurosurgeon, on Friday likened the health care law to slavery.
"Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing to happen to the nation since slavery," Carson said, speaking at the Values Voter Summit. "And it is slavery, in a way."
Carson, who is African American, added to applause, "It was never about health care. It was about control."
During an address punctuated with cheers, Carson also said that there's no such thing as a "war on women." Smiling, he noted that pregnant women are typically treated politely, and said that the real war is on unborn children.


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"Hector Camacho, a boxer known for his lightning-quick hands and flamboyant personality who emerged from a delinquent childhood in New York's Spanish Harlem to become a world champion in three weight classes, died Saturday in San Juan, P.R., four days after after being shot while sitting in a parked car. He was 50. "
~ Bruce Weber, NY Times
The death of Hector "Macho" Camacho late last week brought back some memories. In the days when i watched boxing – on network TV no less, Wide World of Sports, "The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat" — Macho was beyond compare. He fought the stars of his era — Roberto Durán, Julio César Chávez, Edwin Rosario, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini ( who had previously killed Duk Koo Kim in the ring right there on live television) and Sugar Ray Leonard. He beat them all before losing his last title fight to Oscar De La Hoya in 1997. At the height of his career, he held Major Titles in 3 weight divisions and eventually won 4 more minor titles at additional weights, the first boxer to become a septuple champion.
Whatever his many skills as a boxer, he was always the winner on style. "What Time is It? It's Macho Time!" never failed to reveal a dazzling array of both speed and ring wear — leopard skin trunks, tasseled boots, mink capes, gladiator gear, head dresses and more. (see Slide Show).
One of a kind.
But his death raised the troubling old questions as well — questions about our collective love of blood sport and the fine line between "entertainment" and "crime". Questions about our expectations of athletes on the field/in the ring versus off/out. Questions of course about race and class and the many cultural contradictions "sports" expose.
Like his heavyweight peer, Mike Tyson, Hector Camacho was "discovered" by handlers who could market their street fighting skills as sport. Moved seamlessly from juvenile detention centers to the ring. What could easily be deemed aggravated assault, attempted murder (i.e serious violent felonious behavior) in any other context was highly valued in the context of the "sport" of boxing. Mama Said Knock You Out no longer meant prison time but Pay Day. Fame, Adulation, Titles. And from the perspective of capitalist systems, perhaps the difference doesn't matter; as Patricia Hill Collins notes,
"Athletes and criminals alike are profitable, not for the vast majority of African American men, but for people who own the teams, control the media, provide food, clothing and telephone services, and who consume seemingly endless images of pimps, hustlers, rapists, and felons."
Boxing is less popular and visible now, relegated to pay per view cable, eclipsed by higher action kick boxing/extreme fighting, or shunned altogether by those who object to the unvarnished directness of the violence or the heavy toll paid by its' "stars" such as Muhammad Ali.
But certainly there is no shortage of ultra-violence disguised as sport. Football, our most popular spectator sport, is the most para-military of all contact games. Helmeted gladiators "march down the field", "throwing bombs" in the pursuit of territory, measured in 10 yards increments at a time. Of course, injuries occur in the wake of the high speed dope-fueled clashes, but since they are not the goal per se, the violence is considered a collateral consequence, never to be named explicitly. Other team sports, such as hockey, have etched theatrical opportunities into the game to give the fans what they really have come for, an "Enforcer" dropping the gloves and the promise of Blood on the Ice.
The usual norms prohibiting violence are suspended because of course, "It's Just a Game", and the participants — well at least some, rewarded with $$$ and adoring fans. If, however, the same behavior that is encouraged on the field of play lapses over into other settings (as it often does), a hypocritical and resentful public never stops to consider how fine the line between crime and the game. Never stops to consider that the behavior they just applauded is just the same as that they now condemn.
We love Mike and "Macho" in the ring; out on the street, not so much.
Hector Luis Camacho was born in Bayamon, P.R., near San Juan, on May 24, 1962. After his mother, Maria, separated from his father when Hector was 3 years old, they moved to Spanish Harlem. He started boxing at 11 and eventually won three New York City Golden Gloves titles, though after the first one he found himself in a cell at Rikers Island, serving three months for car theft.
~ Bruce Weber, NY Times
Of course race matters here. A long literature in the Sociology of Sport (yes there is such a thing) documents the role race plays in recruitment for particular sports and assignment of key positions; racial stacking continues to this day, despite the fact that Blacks represent the over-whelming majority of players in both the NFL and NBA . And racialized explanations of athletic prowess persist too, despite their direct links to the long debunked pseudo-science of eugenics.
Just ask Jimmy"The Greek" Synder.
For our purposes, the most relevant literature draws on the connections between race and class in what William C. Rhoden has dubbed "the sports industrial complex". ( See $40 Million Slaves: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete for an outstanding analysis of the historical role of Blacks in a variety of sports, as well as their current exploitation).
Sports is presented, especially to Black and Brown youth, as a vehicle for upward mobility, a way out so to speak. The promise of Hoop Dreams is tantalizing and largely unattainable. NCAA statistics indicate that less than a fraction of 1% of high school athletes make it to the pros in basketball, football, baseball or hockey. Those few that do may do so without the benefit of a completed college education and face without the benefit of a completed college education without adequate – if any – pensions. The super stars – of any sport – are the extreme exception certainly not the rule. Nonetheless, as David J. Leonard and C. Richard King argue in Commodified and Criminalized; New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports, these used up too soon athletes "also function as an ideological and discursive commodity used to sell the American Dream and colorblindness in post-civil rights America."
Those who do "make it" serve this larger ideological function. In Child's Play?: Black Labor In The Sports-Industrial Complex, Theresa Runstedtler additionally observes:
Arguably, maintaining the prison-industrial complex and other types of racial caste systems in the United States (i.e. unequal education, healthcare, etc.) relies heavily on black hyper-visibility in the sporting realm. On the one hand, individualist and sanitized stories of black success in professional sports are offered up as proof that race no longer matters. On the other hand, the over-representation of black athletes at play (especially those who do not follow the prescribed "rules" of sporting etiquette, both on and off the court) reinforces the notion that black people must be properly managed, and if necessary, caged.
When that fine line between the rules of the game and the rules of society at large is transgressed, the reaction, well, that depends. There is an on-going debate as to whether or not athletes are more likely to break the law than average citizens, and a similarly mixed literature on the consequences of that. Sometimes athletes get preferential treatment; at others, media attention and the insistence that they must be "role models" produces harsher sentences than might be expected.
As it always is with criminal injustice, the backlash is often subject to racialized double standards. Some latitude is given towards white players whose off-field deviations may be sympathetically framed and/or medicalized; their addictions described as self-medication due to "playing through pain." Sometimes they are dismissed entirely. When, for example, Lance Armstrong finally fell – after ten years of accusation and mounting evidence — there were still those who denied that he blithely biked while swilling mixtures of testosterone and olive oil or that he had bullied his team into becoming an EPO injecting doper gang. We raise an eye-brow but hold doubts about accusations of sexual assault and even in death, we treat the over-doses and suicides of white sports figures as "tragic riddles".
This largesse is rarely granted for their counter-parts of color. Here, the sports industrial complex demands compliance and gratitude. The reaction to deviance, however minor, is often swift and extreme. We have no time for the insouciance of a Randy Moss or the defiance of a Latrell Sprewell, no tolerance for the "thug – life" attire of an Allen Iverson or a Carmelo Anthony (see the NBA dress code and After Artest: The NBA & the Assault on Blackness ). Jose Canseco was vilified for telling the truth about steroid use in baseball; Barry Bonds was tried and convicted for using the same. And despite having served a federal prison sentence and returned to the NFL, Micheal Vick will forever and ever and ever amen be remembered as the public face of dog-fighting.
And, so, it is unsurprising that most obituaries of Hector "Macho" Camacho began and end – as does the New York Times piece excerpted in exact order here – not with the moments of sporting glory, but instead with the long litany of trouble.
And the headline, "Hector Camacho, 50, Boxer Who Lived Dangerously, Dies."
One More Time.
Rest in Peace Hector, at last.
As a teenager Camacho was a brawler, a serial shoplifter, an admitted drug user and a car thief, and he never put that part of his nature behind him. He was arrested numerous times on charges including domestic abuse, possession of a controlled substance, burglary and trying to take an M-16 rifle through customs. This year he turned himself in after a warrant charged him with beating one of his sons. A trial was pending at his death.
~ Bruce Weber, NY Times
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Cindy Lawler, Ph.D., is acting chief of the Cellular, Organs, and Systems Pathobiology Branch in the Division of Extramural Research and Training. She is the lead NIEHS representative for extramural autism activities. This includes responsibilities as a program official for the NIH-funded Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation (EARLI) study, the Childhood Autism Risk from Genes and Environment (CHARGE) study, the Markers of Autism Risk in Babies-Learning Early Signs (MARBLES), and a multidisciplinary center that addresses environmental contributors to autism.
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Spirou et Fantasio - 'Alerte aux Zorkons' (2010).
Yoann Chivard discovered his calling at age five, when he first started drawing. After graduating in Plastic Arts, he completed a degree in communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Angers. During this six year period, he made several posters and ads. He created the series 'Phil Kaos' and 'Dark Boris' for the English magazines Deadline and Inkling, as well as a children's book for Triskell, 'Le Vilain Petit Canard'. In 1996, Yoann set up the atelier La Boîte Qui Fait Beuh with his colleagues Eric Omond, Nathalie Bodin, Marie Lombard, Boris Beuzelin, Pierre-Henry Laporterie and Olivier Supiot.
'Phil Kaos'.
Yoann originally created the character 'Toto l'Ornithorynque' for an illustrated novel, but with the help of Eric Omond he turned it into a comic series for Delcourt in 1997. Yoann and Omond also cooperated on 'Nini Rezergoude' for the Japanese publisher Kodansha, and on 'La Voleuse du Père-Fauteuil' for the Dargaud collection Poisson Pilote in 2002. Also for Delcourt, he started the series, 'Ether Glister', with texts by Nathalie Ferlut in 2000, and illustrated an album in the series 'Donjon Monster' for Sfar and Trondheim.
'Bob Marone'.
Between 2003 and 2005 he drew new stories with 'Bob Marone', a series created and written by Yann and Conrad, for Fluide Glacial under the pseudonym Janus. In 2006, he was the first artist to made a 'Spirou et Fantasio' story in the special' "one-shot collection" (script by Fabien Vehlmann). As from 2010, Yoann and Vehlmann are the artists for the regular 'Spirou et Fantasio' series.
On 5 September 2014 a mural painting, depicting Spirou being hassled by all his creators, was inaugurated in Brussels, based on designs by Yoann and Vehlmann. It can be seen in the Rue Notre Dame des Grâces / Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Gratiestraat, as part of the Brussels' Comic Book Route.
Spirou et Fantasio - 'Les Géants Pétrifié '(2006).


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Trade Name(s)
- Qsymia
Ther. Class.
Pharm. Class.
appetite suppressants
Controlled Substance Schedule: IV
Weight management as part of a program including caloric restriction and increased exercise in patients with an initial body mass index (BMI) of ≥30 kg/m2 or a BMI of ≥27 kg/m2 with at least one other risk factor (hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or dyslipidemia).
- Phentermine– ↓ appetite and food consumption;
- Topiramate– ↓ appetite and enhances satiety.
Therapeutic Effect(s):
Weight loss.
Absorption: Phentermine– Unknown; Topiramate– 80% absorbed following oral administration.
Distribution: Phentermine– Unknown; Topiramate– Unknown.
Metabolism and Excretion: Phentermine– metabolized by the liver; Topiramate– 70% excreted unchanged in urine.
Half-life: Phentermine– 19–24 hr; Topiramate– 21 hr.
TIME/ACTION PROFILE (phentermine–appetite suppression, topiramate–blood levels)
|PO (weight loss)
|within 8 wk
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- Glaucoma;
- Hyperthyroidism;
- During/within 14 days of MAO inhibitors;
- Severe renal impairment (CCr <30 mL/min);
- Severe hepatic impairment;
- History of suicidal thought/active suicidal ideation;
- OB: Pregnancy (may cause fetal harm);
- Lactation: Lactation.
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- History of substance abuse;
- Rep: Women of reproductive potential;
- Pedi: Safety and effectiveness not established in children;
- Geri: ↑ risk of adverse effects in older adults (consider age-related ↓ in cardiac, renal, and hepatic function, concurrent chronic disease states and medications).
Adverse Reactions/Side Effects
CV: tachycardia, hypotension, palpitations
Derm: ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME, STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME, TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, alopecia, oligohydrosis (↓ sweating)
EENT: acute myopia, blurred vision, eye pain, secondary angle closure glaucoma
Endo: hypoglycemia
F and E: metabolic acidosis, hypokalemia
GI: HEPATOTOXICITY, altered taste, constipation, dry mouth
GU: ↑ serum creatinine, kidney stones
Neuro: paresthesia, SEIZURES (FOLLOWING ABRUPT DISCONTINUATION), headache, insomnia, cognitive impairment, dizziness, mood disorders, suicidal ideation
Misc: hyperthermia
* CAPITALS indicate life-threatening.
Underline indicate most frequent.
- ↑ risk of hypokalemia with non-potassium sparing diuretics.
- ↑ risk of CNS depression with other CNS depressants including alcohol, some antihistamines, sedative/hypnotics, antipsychotics, and opioid analgesics ; avoid concurrent use of alcohol.
- Altered exposure to oral contraceptives may ↑ risk of irregular bleeding.
- Blood levels of topiramate may be ↓ by carbamazepine or phenytoin.
- Concurrent use of topiramate with valproic acid may ↑ risk of hyperammonemia.
- Concurrent use of topiramate with carbonic anhydrase inhibitors may ↑ risk of metabolic acidosis and kidney stones.
- ↑ risk of hypotension with antihypertensive and diuretics.
- May ↓ pioglitazone levels.
PO (Adults): Initial dose– one phentermine 3.75 mg/topiramate 23 mg capsule once daily for 14 days, then ↑ to one phentermine 7.5 mg/topiramate 46 mg capsule once daily for 12 wk, then assess weight loss. If weight loss has not exceeded 3% of baseline, discontinue or ↑ dose to one phentermine 11.25 mg/topiramate 69 mg capsule once daily for 14 days, then one phentermine 15 mg/topiramate 92 mg capsule once daily for 12 wk, if weight loss has not exceeded 5% of baseline, discontinue as success is unlikely. Discontinuation should proceed by taking the phentermine 15 mg/topiramate 92 mg capsule every other day for 1 wk.
Renal Impairment
PO (Adults): CCr ≥30 mL/min–<50 mL/min– daily dose should not exceed one phentermine 7.5 mg/topiramate 46 mg capsule once daily.
Hepatic Impairment
PO (Adults): Child-Pugh score 7–9– daily dose should not exceed one phentermine 7.5 mg/topiramate 46 mg capsule once daily.
Capsules (contain tartrazine): phentermine 3.75 mg (immediate-release)/topiramate 23 mg (extended-release) (for titration only), phentermine 7.5 mg (immediate-release)/topiramate 46 mg (extended-release), phentermine 11.25 mg (immediate-release)/topiramate 69 mg (extended-release) (for titration only), phentermine 15 mg (immediate-release)/topiramate 92 mg (extended-release)
Cost: 3.75 mg/23 mg $163.24/30, 7.5 mg/46 mg $184.49/30, 11.25 mg/69 mg $221.38/30, 15 mg/92 mg $239.40/30
- Monitor patients for weight loss and adjust concurrent medications (antihypertensives, antidiabetics, lipid-lowering agents) as needed. Evaluate weight loss after each 12 wk of therapy.
Monitor closely for notable changes in behavior that could indicate the emergence or worsening of suicidal thoughts or behavior or depression. Discontinue phentermine/topiramate if these occur.
- Monitor BP and heart rate periodically during therapy; may cause increase in resting heart rate. May cause hypotension in patients treated with antihypertensives.
Lab Test Considerations:
Verify negative pregnancy test prior to starting therapy and monthly during therapy.
- May cause hypoglycemia; monitor blood glucose closely in diabetic patients.
- May cause metabolic acidosis; monitor serum bicarbonate, prior to starting and periodically during therapy.
- May cause ↑ serum creatinine; peak increases observed after 4–8 wk of therapy. Monitor serum creatinine prior to and periodically during therapy; if persistent elevations occur, decrease dose or discontinue therapy.
- May cause hypokalemia; monitor serum potassium periodically during therapy.
- REMS: Qsymia is only available through certified pharmacies that are enrolled in the Qsymia certified pharmacy network. Information can be obtained at www.QsymiaREMS.com or by calling 1-888-998-4887.
- PO Administer once daily in the morning without regard to food. Avoid dosing in the evening; may cause insomnia.
Patient/Family Teaching
- Instruct patient to take phentermine/topiramate as directed. Do not stop taking without consulting health care professional. Discontinue gradually taking 1 dose every other day for at least 1 wk before stopping to prevent seizures. REMS: Explain Qsymia REMS requirements to patient.
- Advise patient to notify health care professional if sustained periods of heart pounding or racing while at rest; severe and persistent eye pain or significant changes in vision; changes in attention, concentration, memory, and/or difficulty finding words; factors that can increase risk of acidosis (prolonged diarrhea, surgery, high-protein/low-carbohydrate diet, and/or concomitant medications).
Inform patients and families of risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior (behavioral changes, emerging or worsening signs and symptoms of depression, unusual changes in mood, or emergence of suicidal thoughts, behavior, or thoughts of self-harm). Advise that these should be reported to health care professional immediately.
- May cause changes in mental performance, motor performance, and/or vision. Caution patients to avoid driving and other activities requiring alertness until response to medication is known.
- Instruct patient to increase fluid intake to increase urinary output and decrease risk of kidney stones.
- Advise patient to monitor for decreased sweating and increased body temperature during physical activity, especially in hot weather.
- Instruct patient to notify health care professional of all Rx or OTC medications, vitamins, or herbal products being taken and consult health care professional before taking any new medications. Advise patient to avoid taking other CNS depressants, opioids, or alcohol.
- Rep: May cause fetal harm. Advise females of reproductive potential to use effective contraception and avoid breast feeding during therapy. Advise female patients to notify health care professional if pregnancy is planned or suspected. For patients taking combined oral contraceptives, may cause irregular bleeding and spotting; advise patient to continue oral contraceptive and notify health care professional if spotting is concerning.
Evaluation/Desired Outcomes
Decrease in weight and BMI. If 3% of baseline body weight is not lost by Week 12, increase dose or discontinue phentermine/topiramate. Evaluate after second 12 wk of therapy. If 5% of baseline body weight is not lost by second 12 wk of therapy, as it is unlikely patient will achieve and sustain clinically meaningful weight loss with continued treatment.


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June 14, 2012
While DefenseReview (DR) was exploring SOFIC 2012 in Tampa, we ran into one David Wilberding at the STIDD Systems/STIDD Military Submersibles booth, who directed us outside to see some of the company's products in action, including the STIDD Diver Propulsion Device (DPD) and Diver Propulsion Device Dual Thruster (DPD-XT) submerible delivery vehicle/boat solutions for maritime/waterborne operations. So, we ran outside real quick and shot some photos and video down on the dock.
Actually, let me back up. When DR first got out there, there was a private meeting going on with U.S. military Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel, so a mid-level company representative initially barred us entry to STIDD's dock/demo area. A higher-level STIDD representative then approached us and graciously gave us access to shoot the accompanying photos and video footage (below) while the meeting was still in progress.
Both the Standard DPD single-thruster and DPD-XT dual thruster utilize Tecnadyne "high-efficiency, lightweight brushless thrusters with a ducted KORT Nozzle propeller", except the DPD-XT obviously employs two thruster/propeller systems and two Massive Unit Small Cell Lithium-Ion Energy
System (MUSCLES) batteries. The DPD-XT provides the following advantages over the standard DPD (from the STIDD 2012 catalog):
– 33% faster than the Standard DPD.
– Additional range.
– Redundant propulsion improves mission safety.
– Twin high-efficiency, low-noise direct-drive 26VDC thruster motors with high Bollard thrust KORT nozzles.
– Two Standard DPD "MUSCLES" Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) batteries.
– Additional towing capacity: easily tows 3-4 divers with full load.
The only point of confusion for Defense Review is how the STIDD Dual Thruster DPD-XT submersible's effective range stacks up agains the Standared DPD-Extended Range model's effective range, since the latter utilizes a second high-capacity "MUSCLES" lithium-ion battery system, which effectively doubles the range of the Standard DPD submersible diver delivery vehicle.
The STIDD Standard DPD is made from hard-coat-anodized marine-grade aluminum alloy and weighs approx. 160 pounds (160 lbs) and can carry two fully-outfitted combat divers/swimmers and up to 100 pounds (100 lbs) of cargo at up to 3 knots (3kts) for for over two hours. Operational depth is over 80 meters (80m). The Standard DPD is NAVSEA 9310 certified, approved for U.S. Navy Use (ANU Listing), and is currently under contract to the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), US Army, USSOCOM, and "many international SOF maritime units".
All STIDD DPD submersible models may be fitted with a sophisticated electronic navigation system (Recon-Navigation System) with SONAR and Doppler velocity log (DVL) capabilities, and comes standard with a depth gauge, magnetic compass, and light stick tube for illumination of both instruments.
Apparently, SOCOM (USSOCOM) has given the DPD the unfortunate acronym "STD" for "Swimmer Transport Device", "swimmer" as in combat swimmer. With a STIDD DPD/STD, a combat diver can swim farther and faster with much less energy expenditure in colder water during reconnaissance and attack missions in littoral and inland waterways, and can dwell longer. DPDs were initially acquired by the U.S. Navy to transport U.S. Navy SEAL assaulters/operators to and from the Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS) "whenever the distance is too far for a quick swim". According to USSOCOM, the STIDD DPD "met or exceeded all requirements established in the operational requirements document". Special Operations Technology (SOTECH) published a piece on the DPD/STD in Volume3, Issue 2 (2005) titled "Divers Go Deep with Propulsion Devices" that's worth reading.
Now, in 2012, SEALs will be able to engage the enemy with DSG/PNW MEA supercavitating underwater rounds after using a STIDD Standard DPD, Standard DPD-Extended Range, or Dual Thruster DPD-XT to transport himself and his buddies to the fight.
Company Contact Info:
STIDD Systems, Inc.
P.O. Box 87
Greenport, NY 11944
Phone: 631-477-2400 Ext. 158
Fax: 631-477-1095
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://stiddmil.com
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Here's an incredible thing I learned from the people who made Fast and Furious 6: they used between 300 and 400 cars. Of all those cars, this intimate little group is all that's left. With those sort of numbers, it's amazing cars are still excited to land roles in these movies.
I was lucky enough to be part of a small group of journalists invited to come out to see the surviving cars from the production, and to chat a bit with Dennis McCarthy, the gearhead/loon/mad genius who builds all these excitingly doomed cars for the FF franchise and many other productions.
Before I walk all of you through the cars so you can ogle via the magic of the internet, let's get one thing out of the way first: don't send Dennis any hate mail. See, Dennis told me that he gets hate mail frequently from people who watch the movies and see a beautiful old Charger or Mustang end up bursting into things, like flames or pieces, and those people then take to their computers to write screeds comparing Dennis to Hitler for his wanton destruction of sacred cars.
The truth is, the cars don't start as anything sacred. In fact, many of them are the same miserable rustbuckets you've run away from after answering a Craigslist ad. These movie cars start out just like all of our project cars: from a shady-sounding ad on the Internet. Dennis seeks out the rusty basket-cases, cars that would never be fit for restoration, because they'll be so extensively modified for film use.
Most of these film cars look incredible on screen, but in person, under real scrutiny, you can tell they're mostly a custom-fabricated roll cage with well-painted parts on top. Little details just aren't important for most of what these cars do. Sure, there are "hero cars" that are lovingly crafted for lingering detail shots, but many are surprisingly rough inside.
Also interesting is that wherever possible, the cars are given a standard drivetrain. Dennis prefers GM LS3 engines, as they offer the right mix of performance, reliability, and extreme accessibility He can get crate engines almost anywhere, and it's relatively easy to find folks to work on them.
Okay, let's look at some of the survivors:
Mark I Escort: I'm not gonna lie: this one was my personal favorite. I've always loved the original Escorts, and this is just a really nicely sorted example. Dennis called this "the '69 Camaro of London" and he's not wrong. Seven of these little fighters were built for the movie. These little Escorts are a far cry from the boring econoboxes we got here — these are gutsy little hoonmobiles. This is one of the few cars used in the movie not to have the preferred LS3. It uses Ford's Kent engine, which we in the US enjoyed in our Pintos, where they helped outrun the balls of flame.
The little Escort also has the honor of being used for a pleasingly bonkers highway-divider jump in the movie. That jump apparently required a "really huge ramp" that the first time the jump was attempted, caused a really violent roll that, according to Dennis, "really rung the stunt guy's bell." Yikes. After shaving 4 MPH off the speed, the jump worked, and only resulting in turning the car into something "the shape of a banana."
Dodge Challenger SRT: The new cars have less done to them, and cars from affiliated companies even less. So this one is close to stock, save for locking diffs, and a huge emergency brake handle used to get the thing sideways on demand. Dodge should just go ahead and make that a regular option.
Jensen Interceptor: As you can probably guess from this car and the Escort, part of the movie takes place in London. Each car is designed for a specific character, and this car was for a woman who is British, and also a big Mopar fan. With that in mind, what's better than an Interceptor, the British car with a Chrysler engine? Also, this character has amnesia, so I'm not sure how that works in. Probably a Lucas electrics thing.
Dennis said the Jensen "looks like a Pacer in back" and where I regard that as a positive, he doesn't and kept trying to have it backed into parking places and other ass-hiding techniques whenever he could. It's been lowered, and has a 480 HP LS3, and while it has a NOX system in there, it was never connected, because the car just didn't need it, and was pretty hard to control already. Five of these were built, and those five have the honor of being the cars that went through the most tires.
Lucra 470: These Lister-built kit cars are meant to evoke the Jaguar D-types, and they're absolutely lovely. And insanely fast. 1800 lbs and a 550 HP LS3 means that when the guy who drove it over says he can get to 60 in under three seconds, I believe him.
The Listers were pretty stock for the movie, if you can call a car like this "stock."
Dodge SRT Charger: This one got a distinctive military-type look, which helped keep this car in play, thanks to easy-to-touch-up matte paint and extra bumper guards. The trunk-mounted winch is part of a scene that I was told "is hard to explain" but involves an airplane. Many of the wrecked copies of this car were cut up to make special camera cars for interior shots and the like.
Stock-looking BMW M5: This car doesn't look special, so I didn't even take pictures of it. But the BMWs used in the movie are interesting because they went through 16 or 17 of them. The only real mod is welded diffs, and not all were true M5s — about half were regular 5s faked with badging. Also, it seems BMWs' traction control and driving nannies can be disabled via some liberal pruning of the fuse box, something many other cars don't allow. The BMWs aren't shown in a particularly positive light, so there was no BMW sponsorship for all those cars.
Anvil Mustang: These were a lot of work to build, and they made nine of them. They were hard to stay on top of and keep looking and running right — these Mustangs are also one of the biggest sources of the hate mail, but we were assured only the most garbagest of cars were used to build these.
The Mustangs were in a scene with tanks, and as I was told "anytime you've got a lot of tanks, you've got a lot of destruction.) Very true.
Plymouth Charger/Superbird: I was told one of the rules of the movie series was that the character Dom had to end up in a Charger of some sort. This Superbird is quite striking in its deep maroon paint, though it almost didn't make it in the movie. Originally pitched for the previous film, the studio felt it was too ridiculous looking and felt like a "kid's toy." Duh, that's why it's awesome, studio dipshits. Dennis did make some alterations to appease the studio, such as shortening the aero nose and lowering the massive rear spoiler. Oh, and while it may actually be a Dodge Charger Daytona, everyone there just called it the "Superbird."
Brembo built massive custom brakes for the car, and MagnaFlow built a custom exhaust system that goes through the rear interior of the car and exits in a sleek port cut into the bodywork. That exhaust pipe inside (from a decidedly non-Mopar LS3, by the by) gets things really hot. They did try covering it in muffler heat-insulating tape, but without time to properly cure, the tape was cooking, smelling awful, smoking up the cabin and making the drivers and actors sick. And possible giving them awful side effects in a decade or so, but we'll hope not.
The front and rear ends also easily bolt on and off with six bolts, since they were getting crunched all the time.
Black 'Cuda: This is a pretty stunning Barracuda, and unlike most of the cars, it didn't get too badly beaten around in the filming. It's quite immaculate — Vin Diesel wanted to buy it, but the owner wouldn't give it up. The details are what make it. The Hemi is lovingly maintained, with operating theater cleanliness, and it uses some incredible inboard disc brakes at the rear that allow for a great view of the springs through the wheel.
There's a couple more cars I left out, and one in particular that I'll be going into detail about next week, so stay tuned!


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At the beginning of August 1942, Dr. Henryk Goldszmidt, better known by his pen name of Janusz Korczak, was deported with the children of his Orphanage to the gas chambers of Treblinka. The outrage shocked the Warsaw Ghetto and some eye-witnesses recorded it. One of them, Wladyslaw Szpillman, wrote:The column was led by an SS man who like most of the Germans liked children, even those whom he was shortly going to kill. Particularly he seemed to be fond of twelve-year old violinist, who carried his instrument under his arm. He ordered him to take his place at the head of the column and to start playing and so they marched. When I met the procession on Gesia Street, all the children were singing together, with beaming faces, while the little violinist was playing. Korczak marched with two of the youngest children in his arms.
Korczak was a legend of his own time. Born into an assimilated Jewish family in Poland, he followed in the footsteps of his paternal grandfather, a physician, and his father, a prolific writer. He studied medicine, specializing in pediatrics. In 1904, he was drafted for the Russo-Japanesse war and ten years later, for World War I. In 1912 he received a grant to create a Jewish orphanage on Karmelicka 92 in Warsaw.
It became his laboratory in which he experimented with his method of institutional education, which he based on the developmental enhancement of a child's inborn abilities. After the wars in which he participated, he felt deeply that his world needed basic changes and he devised a motto: If you want to reform the world, first you must reform education.
Reaching into his childhood and formative years, he discovered that his upbringing and schooling were built on serious flaws, which surfaced in occassional pangs of distress and loneliness. He felt deprived of love and support, and in his mature years wrote a philosophical treatise entitled How to Love a Child. Deeply aware of his Jewish roots, he felt empathy with Jewish children, especially those in Orthodox families, who, who were afraid to leave their neighborhood and were severely restricted by their parents In this connection, he wrote Mosheks, Yoskes and Srulics and also Jewish Child in the Diaspora.
In his orphanage, known as our home, he tried to maintain an atmosphere of candid discussion and sharing of thoughts and ideas. He also encouraged expression of feelings in writing and assisted older children to establish their own newsletter, called Maly Przeglad (Little Review).
In the early 1930's, Korczak began to communicate with his former pupils who emigrated to Israel. They urged him to visit the country and he traveled there in 1932 and 1934. Visiting cities, kibbutzim and moshavim, he discovered a new world which he described In the Land of Israel, In the Kibbutzim and the Children of the Bible he also felt an urge to emigrate to the Holy Land, deeply regretting that his ancestors never spoke about it. And so the great educator and humanitarian returned to Poland with a deep yearning for Israel.
His wish of being in Israel is partially fulfilled by the fact that children in Israel learn about Korczak and his educational legacy. They flock to Yad Layeled, the children's museum at the Ghetto Fighters' house in Israel. This is treated like a santuary where they share their thoughts and feelings about Korczak and the Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust. They are told about his unrestricted sacrifices and they begin to appreciate the efforts of their own educators and their parents who sacrifice to make Israel what it is today.
Visit the Resource section to view photographs of Korczak monuments in Warsaw.
The complete script of the play, Korczak and the Children, by G. E. Farrell.
The complete script of the play, Dr. Yanush Korczak, by Alina Kentof.
This Web site offering scores of photographs related to the life and work of Janusz Korczak was created by the son of one of the staff members at Korczak's orphanage.
Janusz Korczak Study Center offers many resources including excerpts of Korczak's writings.
The complete text of The King of Children: The Life and Death of Janusz Korczak by Betty Jean Lifton.
Korczak entry from the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.
An extensive bibliography of books and articles related to Dr. Korczak is available at the Wiesenthal Center site.
View the Korczak memorial at Yad Vashem in Israel.
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