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The Making of Killer EMarch 2005
By Terri Mitchell
Like an asteroid slamming into the Earth, like a spaceship landing on the White House lawn, last November the news hit that vitamin E increases mortality. Yes, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins, vitamin E is a killer.1 The vitamin supplement that millions of Americans believe to be a good thing is actually a snake in the grass, waiting to do them in. The findings are so dire, according to the report, that the public should not take any high-dose supplement because, according to the Hopkins researchers, not only are they dangerous, but there is no evidence that they do anything at all.
These researchers were so concerned about the public's health that they advised public health authorities to launch campaigns warning people about supplements. Never mind that the evidence on which these claims are based is a numbers game. Never mind that the evidence is a handful of selected studies mostly involving seriously ill, aged people. Never mind that studies showing that vitamin E might actually prolong life were omitted. And who published this analysis directing every public health official in America to act immediately for the public good? The Annals of Internal Medicine—the journal of America's internists. And why did the Annals of Internal Medicine publish this alarming report that made headlines all over the world?
Although the authors of the report referred to it as a "study" in their media appearances, it is actually an analysis of existing studies, or a "meta-analysis." No patients were recruited; not a capsule was swallowed. This meta-analysis is strictly armchair number crunching done by computer, with the input courtesy of others. The motivation behind this meta-analysis was strictly personal interest, according to the lead researcher, Edgar R. Miller III.
The Chosen Few
Nineteen studies were chosen for the Hopkins meta-analysis.1 Only studies that lasted at least one year, and in which 10 or more deaths occurred, were considered. Most of the studies used data from people who had one or more chronic diseases—such as serious heart disease, diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and kidney failure—or who were at risk of developing heart disease. For example, one such study, the so-called WAVE study, enrolled only women with at least one artery blocked 15-75%.2 Huge studies such as the EPESE study, in which vitamin E's effects on mortality were tracked for nine years in more than 11,000 people, did not make the cut3—perhaps because those taking vitamin E lived longer than those who did not supplement.
Of the 19 studies analyzed, only nine pertain to vitamin E alone.1 The rest involved combinations of vitamin E and other nutrients.1 According to the authors, this is valid because they "controlled" for whatever impact these other factors might have had on mortality. When asked how they could control for how other vitamins and minerals affect vitamin E's influence on mortality—given that the impacts are mostly unknown—they responded:
"In this analysis, data from factorial trials were restricted to participants not exposed to the second factorial intervention. In addition, we included other study-specific explanatory variables as second level covariates in the categorical and dose-response hierarchical models. Due to the limited number of trials, we separately evaluated the impact of adding the following variables: gender distribution, mean age, use of other vitamins/minerals combined with vitamin E, and average time of follow-up. Finally, we evaluated the influence of each trial on the results by removing each individual study from the analysis.1"
The authors of the vitamin E meta-analysis reveal conflicted opinions about vitamin E's effects. As the authors analyzed data, vitamin E's effects mutated from "vitamin E supplementation did not affect all-cause mortality" (their own words) to "for dosages less than 150 IU/d, all-cause mortality slightly but nonsignificantly decreased," to "Policymaking bodies, which currently do not recommend antioxidant vitamin supplement use to the general population, should also caution the public against the use of high-dosage vitamin E supplementation."1 This is quite a hop, skip, and jump for one publication, so we decided to take a closer look.
What the Studies Actually Say
As noted earlier, only nine of the 19 studies included in the meta-analysis provide data on vitamin E alone—the rest are studies of combinations of antioxidants and minerals. Of the nine studies that provide data on vitamin E alone, seven show no effect on overall mortality (ATBC,4 DATATOP,5 ADCS,6 VECAT,7 HOPE,8 PPP,9 GISSI,10) one shows a beneficial effect,11 and one, the CHAOS study, shows both a negative effect and positive effect.12 It is not clear why the CHAOS study was included in the meta-analysis, considering that it has been criticized for faulty methodology. In this study, the vitamin E group had significantly higher serum cholesterol levels and a significantly greater percentage of participants had high blood pressure, diabetes, and severe coronary artery disease. The CHAOS study showed a 75% decrease in nonfatal heart attacks in the vitamin E group, yet an increase in mortality that was not statistically significant.12 From these studies, which overwhelmingly conclude that vitamin E either did not affect, or was beneficial for overall mortality, vitamin E's reputation as "killer E" was created. So where's the killer?
Armchair Scientific Research
The "killer E" meta-analysis includes only one type of study. Whether called a "prevention," "intervention," or "clinical" trial, these studies supply their subjects with up to a year's worth of vitamins and instruct them to show up in three or four months for evaluation. One way to determine whether the participants are taking the supplements is to have them bring their supply to a visit and count the leftover capsules.
Obviously, this kind of compliance check has its drawbacks. One study states that compliance was measured by "refilling drug supplies every 3 months"; nothing else was done to determine whether the subjects were actually taking their pills.10 In at least one trial, if the participants did not show up for evaluation, they could still receive their vitamins by mail.13 To illustrate how poorly controlled many of these trials were, it was later discovered in the CHAOS trial that 78% of those who died while supposedly taking alpha tocopherol were not in fact taking it.12 The study's numbers went from giving the impression that vitamin E kills people to suggesting that vitamin E cuts the risk of heart attack in half—all with the stroke of a pen. According to the researchers, the findings may have "underestimated the true benefit of alpha tocopherol." By the study's end, only about 40% of the subjects were still taking their vitamins.12 Rudolph A. Riemersma, a co-author of the "killer E" meta-analysis, had previously written that the CHAOS trial "was probably too small to examine mortality."14 He apparently changed his mind, as the CHAOS study was included in the "killer E" meta-analysis.
Highlights from Decades of Research
Results of a four-year study on natural vitamin E and atherosclerosis in monkeys were published in 1992.16 Atherosclerosis was induced by adding cholesterol to the animals' diets, and their arteries were examined by ultrasound eight times over the course of the study. At the study's conclusion, 87% blockage of the common carotid artery was measured in animals eating cholesterol plus placebo. In animals that received vitamin E with their cholesterol, arteries were blocked 18%. Twenty-four areas of the animals' arteries were examined under a microscope and photographed. The researchers concluded: "At nearly all sites, the values for stenosis and severity rating were lower in the treated animals compared to controls, indicating that vitamin E may be effective in reducing the histopathological effects of an atherogenic diet."16 Note something important here: the monkeys' diet was essentially vegetarian, aside from dietary casein (dairy) protein and experimentally added cholesterol. Vegetarians receive only about 5% of their energy from saturated fat (versus 10% for meat eaters),17 have greater blood levels of antioxidants,18 and have far less free radical-promoting iron in their blood.19 All of these factors may contribute to heart health.
A similar study in humans showed the same effect but to a lesser extent, possibly due to its relatively short duration (six years), dietary factors, and the fact that some of the participants smoked.20 In this study, 500 mg of slow-release ascorbic acid and 272 IU of alpha tocopherol retarded artery blockage, especially in men.20
Vitamin E studies are frequently conducted using subjects who already have heart disease. A recent study from Case Western Reserve University demonstrates that vitamin E may also help prevent damage to arteries from angioplasty and from the toxicity of low-density lipoprotein (LDL).21 Oxidized LDL prevents endothelial cells from migrating to and repairing damaged areas. Scientists have discovered that alpha tocopherol maintains healing action and overrides LDL's negative effects. Because other antioxidants (BHT and probucol) did not have the same effect in this study, researchers believe that vitamin E's effects are the result not of its antioxidant properties, but of its ability to inhibit changes in cell membrane integrity caused by oxidized LDL. They reported that vitamin E may have properties in addition to its antioxidant action that "could be important in the primary prevention of atherosclerosis and its complications."21
The importance of vitamin E's antioxidant effects on heart health may be illustrated by a European study that sought to determine why Lithuanian men have a heart disease mortality rate that is four times that of men in Sweden.22 It found that while Lithuanian men actually had lower LDL levels than their Swedish counterparts, their plasma gamma tocopherol levels were about half those of the Swedish men. The researchers concluded, "The high mortality from coronary heart disease in Lithuania is not caused by traditional risk factors alone. Mechanisms related to antioxidant state may be important."22
In a University of North Carolina study based on a questionnaire, vitamin E supplements significantly reduced the risk of mortality from breast cancer in women who had been previously treated for it.23 The women, who were studied for 12-14 years, had to take vitamin E for at least three years to see benefit, which included a significantly reduced risk of breast cancer recurrence.23
Question: if you are 100 years old and all your friends who were born around the same time as you are now dead, what do you have that they did not? According to one study, the answer is vitamin E. This study tested 50 biochemical markers in the blood and urine in relation to all-cause mortality of people aged 90 to 100. These biochemical, hematological, and biological parameters were measured in six- to 12-month intervals. Serum vitamin E was the only vitamin that was significantly higher in the people who survived.24
A British study found that in people 75 to 84 years old, those with the highest blood levels of vitamin C had about half the risk of dying as those with the least vitamin C.25
The American Cancer Society queried 991,522 US adults about their use of vitamin supplements. Following up 16 years later, it was found that people who took vitamin E supplements for 10 years or longer reduced their risk of death from bladder cancer by 40%.26 Vitamin E supplementation of shorter duration was not protective.
A study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collected information on more than a million Americans. The study results showed that using multi-vitamins along with vitamins A, C, and E reduced the risk of mortality from any cause by about 15% over the course of seven years.27
These and other studies strongly suggest an association between antioxidant status and decreased mortality in older adults.


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8 Oct. 1943
"445th BS War Diary: Our men are encountering more and more small Italian children
who stand by the garbage pails and be food. They are apparently ill fed. Back in Africa
there were the Arab children who pulled the same thing. Here, the plot is the same but
the characters different. Once again our men got a look at Photo Jerry this morning. He
is apparently interested in this base which is an aerial beehive. Our Squadron lost two
planes today in the raid on the Athens Eleusis Airdrome. Great damage was caused and several enemy fighters were destroyed, however."
Planes and Crew Lost 8 Oct. 1943;
A/C No. 42-64675 (missing crews – at sea)
P Fisher, James B., Jr.,Lt.
CP Carmine, John W., Lt.
N Osburn, Hobat G., 2Lt
E Kunis, Theodore C., S/Sgt
R Garthwaite, Howard S., S/Sgt
G Woronuk, John (NMI), Cpl O'Neill, Phillip W., Sgt
F Corning, C. H., Capt (observer)
CREW; Theodore C. Kunis (Army serial # 33069075) http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&tf=F&q=33069075&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=3559152 ("K" is unreadable)
Howard L Garthwaite; POW Stalag 17B Braunau Gneikendorf Near Krems Austria 48-15 http://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=466&mtch=2&tf=F&q=Garthwaite,&bc=sl,fd&rpp=10&pg=1&rid=67387&rlst=67386,67387
The B-25 plane number was #42-64675 and the crew was:
Pilot: Fisher, James B., Jr., 1Lt, SN#O&659966
CoPilot: Carmine, John W., 2Lt, SN#O&794527
Navigator: Osburn, Hobart G., 2Lt, SN#O&669098
Bombardier: McLeod, Jack P., 2Lt, SN#O&731211
Engineer: Kunis, Theodore C., S/Sgt, SN#33069075
R Garthwaite, Howard S., S/Sgt, SN#32402780
G Woronuk, John (NMI), Cpl, SN#6846610 (POW record of SN#, no enlistment record)
Their plane was damaged on their first bombing mission to Athens' Eleusis Airdrome in Greece. They were forced to ditch in the Gulf of Corinth at 1:45 PM ("that's when my wrist watch stopped" related Bart Osburn). After trying to paddle their 6-man lifeboat (2 had to hang on from the water) to the shore, which was in sight, without little or no success, they were picked up by a German cutter at about 6 PM and taken to a German camp in the mountains of Greece. From the mountain camp in Greece the crew was loaded on a train and taken to Frankfort, Germany (Dulag Luft near Frankfurt-am-Main).
After the Dulog Luft interrogation stop, the officer POWs were taken by train to Stalag Luft 1 near Barth, German on the Baltic Sea where he was held from October 1943 to May 1, 1945 when the Russians had liberated the camp. [Note: National Archives records list camp as: "Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang Prussia".] After contact was made with the Russians arrangements were made to evacuate the liberated POWs by air. This was completed by 15 May 1945.
The plane's officers were held at Stalag Luft 1 in the following compounds:
1st Lt. James B. Fisher, Jr. (Missouri), South Compound (NOTE: National Archives POW records has him held at: Stalag 2A Neubrandenburg Mecklenberg)
2nd Lt. John W. Carmine (Virginia), North 1 & North 2 Compounds
2nd Lt. Hobart G. Osburn (Oklahoma), South Compound
2nd Lt. Jack P. McLeod (South Carolina), South Compound
Capt. Clarence H. Corning (Massachusetts), South Compound and then the North 1 Compound (Barracks Commander of Barracks 9).
_*********************************************************************************************_**After the Dulog Luft stop, the enlisted personnel were held and liberated as follows:
S/Sgt Theodore C. Kunis, (Illinois), Stalag 3 at Sagan in Silesia (now Zagan, Poland) and then marched to Spremberg and then via rail to Stalag 7A at Moosburg just before liberation on 29 April 1945 by the 14th Armored Division.
S/Sgt Howard L. Garthwaite (New York), Stalag 17B at Gneixendorf near Krems, Austria and then 4000 POWs marched to a Russian prison camp north of Braunau am Inn, Austria just before liberation on 3 May 1945 by the 13th Armored Division. 400 sick POWs left at Stalag 17B were liberated on 9 May 1945 by the Russians. Note: Unknown which group Garthwaite was in.
Cpl John (No Mi) Woronuk (Massachusetts), Stalag 17B at Gneixendorf near Krems, Austria and then 4000 POWs marched to a Russian prison camp north of Braunau, Austria just before liberation on 3 May 1945 by the 13th Armored Division. 400 sick POWs left at Stalag 17B were liberated on 9 May 1945 by the Russians. Note: Unknown which group Woronuk was in.
20 July, 2008; Hi John (Fitzgerald) I spoke with Fred Lawrence, he was the crew chief of the other ship that went down with Hartmiester, Frey, Flynn and others, 3 of that crew were KIA, 2 were returned in a few weeks and 2 went on to much bigger things (OSS).
The crew chief of the Fisher ship was Moe Martinez, who lives in Calif. That was the personal ship of General Knapp and she had no nose art, the Hartmiester ship had 31 Missions (27 of which while Fred was her crew chief) but no name, other than a yellow name up under the nose, "Poochie". . . ( there was a "Poopsie" already) she was not otherwise named.
_ It was a long time, very long time, until the men knew the fate of that ship that Fisher and Crew went down in, and Fred remembers Fisher well. . . while not an original from the "training in the states" days, he was there a long time. Fred has an amazing memory BUT I always remember to remind everyone that while every man was in the same war, all experienced it differently._
_ If Bart wished to speak with Fred, he would like that, if he remembers more of his own ship's crew chief, (Moe Martinez) I can get his phone # as well. (Of the CREW) Fred only knew of the life of Jim Fisher, he returned, married and had 3 daughters. Carmine was new, he does not remember him, and he said the in his opinion that ..... All were brave men._
_ (21 Apr. 2011) Blessings, Barbi_
_Barbi Ennis Connolly, Dad/447th BS, T/Sgt Ed Ennis, 321st BG and 319th BG Historian, 57th Bomb Wing Historical Researcher, firstname.lastname@example.com _
_ "The 321st Bomb Group History TEAM" John T Fitzgerald (Dad, 446th BS Lt Jack Fitzgerald) and Patti (446thBS) Johnson and Barbara (447thBS Dad/Ed Ennis) Connolly._

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Child proofing is a rite of passage for parents with young children: locks on cabinet doors, gates on stairs and clips on book shelves. And this safety-first mentality needs to extend to kids toys, experts warn, especially the iPad.
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"It's very common for kids to use iPads these days more so than using computers," says Jinny Gudmundsen, author of iPad Apps For Kids For Dummies. "Parents unfamiliar with the technology open it up, turn it on and don't realize they can customize it to become more user friendly to kids."
Children as young as one are learning to swipe their way to fun and games on tablets, but parents need to create safeguards to make sure they aren't exposed to inappropriate content.
Here are ways to ensure your child and iPad are safe from each other.
Safety Tip No.1: Disable In-App Purchases
Apps are the heart and soul of tablets and they can be easily downloaded in a matter of seconds—which is convenient, until kids starting buying apps without parent consent. Not only can this expose young users to unsuitable content, it can also rack up a big bill.
And just because an app is free, that doesn't mean they can't rack up a big tab. Gudmundsen says many of the free apps make money by giving players the option to spend real money on things in the game. Those little purchases can end up to a hefty bill. The problem has become so widespread that it sparked a class action lawsuit. Late last month Apple settled a class-action lawsuit related to app purchases made by children without the consent of the account holder. Apple agreed to provide a $5 iTunes store credit to as many as 23 million people who were affected, according to Reuters. Those that claimed $30 or more were offered a cash refund from instead.
"These in-app purchases are frequently confusing to kids who have difficulty distinguishing between buying things with in-game currency and buying them with real money," says Gudmundsen. To prevent in-app purchases, parents need to not only enable a password but close the 15-minute window where another purchase can be made without typing in your password.
Parents can even choose to block In-app purchases altogether. "If you opt to let your kids explore these games, make sure the In-App Purchases option is 'Off,' or at least make sure that you set the password requirement to 'Immediately'," she recoommends.
Safety Tip No.2: Set Media Parameters
The Internet offers a wealth of information—both good and bad. but it. To prevent a child from accessing anything they shouldn't when using the iPad, parents need to set restrictions.
"The iPad allows you to set the age appropriateness of the media your kids use," Gudmundsen says. "The setting you want is called 'Allowed Content', and you'll find it under 'Restrictions'.
Parents can restrict music and podcasts, movies, TV shows, books and apps. Parents can choose age categories for apps including 4+, 9+, 12+ and 17+. If the parent chooses 4+ it's essentially a G rating while 17 + can be considered a R rating.
Safety Tip No.3: Turn Off Location Services
Many apps ask for or rely on a user's location, but experts say not to allow this if kids use the device.
To disable this feature on the iPad, go to 'Settings' and then turn off 'Location Services''. This prevents strangers from being able to locate a child user and retailers from sending targeted advertisements to kids.
This restriction doesn't prevent using any app that requires a location, if an apps needs it, say for instance one for star gazing , Gudmundsen says the app will alert the user to enable the location feature. Just remember to disable it when you are done.
Safety Tip No.4: Buy a Protective Cover
iPads are expensive and kids can be destructive, so experts advise parents find a sturdy cover to protect the gadget. These covers cost anywhere from around $30 to $80, and can be found at electronics retailers and/or through Apple. "Children drop things," says Gudmundsen. "A protective cover puts a lot of padding around the iPad."


text: > they may also end up being obsoleted by some forthcoming intel products... > but as usual wsiting doesn't get your work done any faster... right. for those of you who don't frequent the lowbrow "enthusiast" sites, the consensus is mid-april for the next wave of Intel stuff: 865 and 875 chipsets supporting dual-ddr400 (up to 4.6 GB/s out of a 6.4 GB/s cpu bus). onboard gige is getting to be standard on mid-high-end stuff, enough so that Intel's putting a special port on the north/hostbridge/MCH for it. shocking that Intel isn't cutting AMD any slack for Opteron to take up ;)


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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Gera ruled out for the season
West Brom midfielder Zoltan Gera has suffered another major knee setback and will be sidelined for the remainder of the season, the club have confirmed on their official website.
Gera injured his left knee during Saturday's FA Cup tie at QPR and scans have shown the Hungary international has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament.
The 33-year-old sustained a similar injury in November 2011 which kept him out for the remainder of last season. Gera is scheduled to undergo surgery to repair his knee next week, with the usual rehab time for this injury being six to nine months.
Baggies head coach Steve Clarke has backed former Fulham player Gera to recover from this latest blow.
He said: "I'm devastated for Zoltan. He's a terrific guy and professional and I want to thank him for his contribution this season. It has been invaluable. He'll now get our full support during the rehab process.
"Zoltan has already proven he can come back from this injury once and produce at the highest level, and I have no doubts he will do so again."
Gera has played a major part in Albion's fine form during the opening half of the season, which has seen them sustain a spot in the top half of the Barclays Premier League table.
He has netted four goals and also returned to international action with Hungary.
Clarke must now decide whether to look to strengthen his decimated midfield department during the January window.
Youssouf Mulumbu is on African Nations Cup duty, Claudio Yacob is sidelined with a hamstring injury and Graham Dorrans wants to leave the Baggies.


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While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than the New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.
These are just a few of the surprising findings from a UCLA-led study, which is believed to be the first successful attempt at objectively quantifying bias in a range of media outlets and ranking them accordingly.
"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."
"Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left," said co‑author Jeffrey Milyo,
The results appear in the latest issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which will become available in mid-December.
Groseclose and Milyo based their research on a standard gauge of a lawmaker's support for liberal causes. Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) tracks the percentage of times that each lawmaker votes on the liberal side of an issue. Based on these votes, the
Groseclose and Milyo then directed 21 research assistants — most of them college students — to scour
Next, they did the same exercise with speeches of
"A media person would have never done this study," said Groseclose, a UCLA political science professor, whose research and teaching focuses on the U.S. Congress. "It takes a Congress scholar even to think of using
Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center, with CBS' "Evening News," The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times ranking second, third and fourth most liberal behind the news pages of The Wall Street Journal.
Only Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and The Washington Times scored right of the average
The most centrist outlet proved to be the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." CNN's "News Night With Aaron Brown" and ABC's "Good Morning America" were a close second and third.
"Our estimates for these outlets, we feel, give particular credibility to our efforts, as three of the four moderators for the 2004 presidential and vice-presidential debates came from these three news outlets — Jim Lehrer, CharlieGibson and Gwen Ifill," Groseclose said. "If these newscasters weren't centrist, staffers for one of the campaign teams would have objected and insisted on other moderators."
The fourth most centrist outlet was "Special Report With Brit Hume" on Fox News, which often is cited by liberals as an egregious example of a right-wing outlet. While this news program proved to be right of center, the study found ABC's "World News Tonight" and NBC's "Nightly News" to be left of center. All three outlets were approximately equidistant from the center, the report found.
"If viewers spent an equal amount of time watching Fox's 'Special Report' as ABC's'World News' and NBC's 'Nightly News,' then they would receive a nearly perfectly balanced version of the news," said Milyo, an associate professor of economics and public affairs at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Five news outlets — "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," ABC's"Good Morning America," CNN's "News Night With Aaron Brown," Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and the Drudge Report — were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist.
An additional feature of the study shows how each outlet compares in political orientation with actual lawmakers. The news pages of The Wall Street Journal scored a little to the left of the average American Democrat, as determined by the average
Most of the outlets were less liberal than Lieberman but more liberal than former Sen. John Breaux, D-La. Those media outlets included the Drudge Report, ABC's"World News Tonight," NBC's "Nightly News," USA Today, NBC's "Today Show," Time magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, NPR's "Morning Edition," CBS' "Early Show" and The Washington Post.
Since Groseclose and Milyo were more concerned with bias in news reporting than opinion pieces, which are designed to stake a political position, they omitted editorials and Op‑Eds from their tallies. This is one reason their study finds The Wall Street Journal more liberal than conventional wisdom asserts.
Another finding that contradicted conventional wisdom was that the Drudge Report was slightly left of center.
"One thing people should keep in mind is that our data for the Drudge Report was based almost entirely on the articles that the Drudge Report lists on other Websites," said Groseclose. "Very little was based on the stories that Matt Drudge himself wrote. The fact that the Drudge Report appears left of center is merely a reflection of the overall bias of the media."
Yet another finding that contradicted conventional wisdom relates to National Public Radio, often cited by conservatives as an egregious example of a liberal news outlet. But according to the UCLA-University of
"By our estimate, NPR hardly differs from the average mainstream news outlet," Groseclose said. "Its score is approximately equal to those of Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report and its score is slightly more conservative than The Washington Post's. If anything, government‑funded outlets in our sample have a slightly lower average
The researchers took numerous steps to safeguard against bias — or the appearance of same — in the work, which took close to three years to complete. They went to great lengths to ensure that as many research assistants supported Democratic candidate Al Gore in the 2000 election as supported President George Bush. They also sought no outside funding, a rarity in scholarly research.
"No matter the results, we feared our findings would've been suspect if we'd received support from any group that could be perceived as right- orleft-leaning, so we consciously decided to fund this project only with our own salaries and research funds that our own universities provided," Groseclose said.
The results break new ground.
"Past researchers have been able to say whether an outlet is conservative or liberal, but no one has ever compared media outlets to lawmakers," Groseclose said. "Our work gives a precise characterization of the bias and relates it to a known commodity — politicians."


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|Brooklyn Castle in Armenia
|By Jennifer Shahade
|December 20, 2013
(available on DVD at USCF Sales), traveled to Armenia this fall to screen the movie around the country, in conjunction with the American Film Showcase. Dellamaggiore was impressed by the respect for chess and the level of chess knowledge in audiences. "A couple years ago, I heard about how chess was a required subject in all Armenian schools, so I was always hoping to bring Brooklyn Castle there."
Katie Dellamaggiore, director of the highly acclaimed film, Brooklyn Castle
Besides the theatrical premiere at South by Southwest, the Armenian premiere in Yerevan was one of the biggest they'd ever had.
The president of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, who is also the chairman of the Armenian Chess Federation, attended the premiere. World #2 ranked player, Levon Aronian (wearing blue pants in the photo below), also came. Katie explained to CLO: "Nobody questioned us about the chess part of the movie. People didn't ask us questions like 'How do kids concentrate for so long?'" Armenian viewers were intrigued by the concept of after-school. "They don't have much funding for after-school programs in Armenia so they were blown away by that."
The underdog themes of the movie also resonated with Armenians: "Between discrimination under the Soviet Union to the '89 earthquake, 40% unemployment and a barely non-existent middle class, a lot of ambitious and hard-working young people don't want to stay in Armenia." Seeing the challenges that young Armenians face made the outreach aspect of the trip particularly meaningful to Katie and her husband Nelson Dellamaggiore, the editor of Brooklyn Castle.
In addition to screening the movie around the country, Katie and Nelson taught students film-making at a workshop at the Tumo Center for Creative Techologies in Yerevan. Katie and Nelson split 20 students into two groups and gave a crash course in storytelling, followed by days of shooting and editing. One of the movies explored the story of a rusty car covered in roses. "The car had become a magnet in the neighborhood, and we found the woman who owned it."
Her experiences in Armenia reinforced Katie's sense that there is a "new energy in chess. As more people come to chess, Brooklyn Castle will be there for people to watch."
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fitlady needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
I am looking for a fun design for a new nutrition product. It is in the form of a deck of cards so this will be the cover of the deck and also on top of each cards inside.
I have been running fitness bootcamp classes for 4 years and have now develpoded this product to be intergrated into my classes for the diet part of it. The design can be of "boot camp" style to be fun and to go with what I already have. The name is the "3 Phase Diet Deck" and you can put the word "easy" on it to. You can look at my boot camp logo at http://www.ladiesfitnessbootcamp.com to get an idea of what I have now and the colors to maybe match it. Please also put something to do with nutrition so that it is obvious that it is a diet program.
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Tampa council commits to PRIDE for 2013
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Clark Davis, a representative of Tampa PRIDE, asked the city council Nov. 5 for a commitment to the program for another year. After a brief discussion, Mayor Tim Svoboda signed a resolution giving the city's support to the program.
David Rziha was sworn in to complete the unexpired term of Don Zaideman, who resigned.
Much discussion centered on a proposed new building to house the city's tractor and other equipment. The water district may share the building.
Craig Bell was at the meeting to advise the council on the project. Eventually, all agreed on a 30x40-foot building with 14-foot walls, two 12-foot doors, one walk-in door, and one roll-up, probably six feet wide and seven feet high. Bell estimated the project's cost as $13,000 but said he would turn in a final bid before the December meeting. A final decision will be made then.
Svoboda advised the council that he expects to get Christmas lights prepared and hung right after Thanksgiving. The council voted to pay him $200 for the work.
The council approved payment of $185 for a wastewater permit and other routine bills.
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Assessing Some Positives Amid an SEC MeltdownPosted by Greg Mitchell (@gregpmitchell) on November 17th, 2014
Hard as it may be to believe, SEC teams did do some good things on opening night (try not to fall out of your chair). Here are several positives that might have fallen through the cracks amid the conference's Friday night meltdown.
Kentucky Bigs Own the Glass. The rebounding numbers that the Wildcats put on Grand Canyon Friday night were absurd. John Calipari's gaggle of ultra-talented bigs grabbed 64.7 percent of the teams' missed shots, which was good for 22 offensive rebounds. The Antelopes only had 20 total rebounds on their side, finishing the game -27 on the glass. Every Kentucky forward who played grabbed at least four boards, and while there are some open questions about the Wildcats' outside shooting, that doesn't really matter when they absolutely dominate on the glass. Opening night was a perfect example of this: Kentucky was just 3-of-14 from three-point land but still won the game by 40 points because Grand Canyon couldn't take advantage of those misses.
The Aggies Offense. Texas A&M burned up the nets in Reed Arena on Friday night against Northwestern State, averaging a whopping 1.30 points per possession in their 109-68 win against the Demons by shooting 57 percent from the field and 47 percent from three. Seven Aggies scored in double figures, led by Antwan Space and Jalen Jones with 16 apiece. Tavario Miller was the biggest opening night surprise for Billy Kennedy, as the sophomore who averaged just 1.8 points per game last season went a perfect 6-of-6 from the field and scored 15 points. Texas A&M's offense is a hot topic because it brings back a good defensive team from a year ago. Northwestern State wasn't an ideal litmus test (#206 in KenPom's rankings), but the offensive clinic the Aggies put on against them was still a very good way to start the season.


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The U.K.'s energy regulator proposed new rules to combat electricity theft on Wednesday, revealing that up to one-third of electricity stolen each year is used to power cannabis farms.
"Theft of electricity increases the costs paid by customers and can have serious safety consequences. It leads to misallocation of costs among suppliers that can distort competition, and hamper the efficient functioning of the market. It also has links to organised crime, and in particular cannabis cultivation," said Chiara Redaelli, an economist at regulator Ofgem, in a report on tackling energy theft.
According to Ofgem, up to 25,000 cases of electricity theft take place each year, costing the industry at least 200 million pounds ($304 million), or around 7 pounds per customer. Around one-third of the illegally extracted electricity is used in cannabis cultivation.
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The idea is of an artist being a/n (insert nationality here) artist is becoming a thing of the past. This isn't politically correct posturing, it's reality now that the smartest artists today work locally and show globally. Conceptually it's not a viable option to sit still in one environment understanding only what you consider native, and economically it's not possible for a single city to[…..]


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Ewok Battle Wagon - Again, maybe not a popular choice, but might be an option for re-release. When I was a wee lad, I know I wanted one of these...and especially wanted the Village playset...but that's a whole other topic.
I wouldn't mind picking up a revised saga landspeeder for my luke, 3p0 and r2 to ride in. also wouldn't mind a tie bomber or tie interceptor. I never did get the sandcrawler they released last year.and I would like a naboo fighter, I never did pick that up during ep1.
No more repaints or re-releases. Just give me a ******* Cloud Car.
Everybody already has the Falcon (including TRU who has mountains of them at full price): "AWESOME rerelease in an AWESOME new AWESOME box."
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Veer, MarketingJuly 22, 2004
A pleasant little surprise showed up in my mailbox this afternoon: summer goodies from Veer, the creative materials provider. This is a company that knows its market.
Veer's catalogues have always been of a particularly high quality. Instead of a boring contact sheet with type and image samples, Veer puts its designers to work coming up with creative ways of displaying stock. You can see what a great job they do by browsing through the PDF back issues.
But they've really outdone themselves this time. July's catalogue is a 101 page booklet called the "Very Big Summer Activity Book for Creatives". It's a bunch of puzzles, crosswords, and general fun little activities all wrapped in the Veer brand. And of course every single photo, typeface, and illustration used within the booklet is available at Veer.com.
With this kind of clever advertising and the general high quality of their catalogue, it's no wonder I smile every time a piece from Veer shows up in the mail. It's worth buying a throw-away font or photo just to get on their mailing list.
(I'm not receiving a cent for saying this, in case there was doubt; I'm just a happy customer.)
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I really hate getting advertisements and catalogs in my mailbox. It's the dead tree version of spam to me. It really gets on my nerves.
But your vivid description of the catalog you recently received has made me want to take a look at this catalog. Does Veer ship a catalog to you along with an order?
my inbox is generally stacked with several months worth of promos, and veer's is the only stuff i take time to look at regularly.
their website is a great resource too. they are one of the few companies that actually go out of their way to appeal to their audience, and because of that, they are the first place i look when i need photos or fonts.
i haven't gotten the july catalog yet, but i have seen someone elses and was jealous that i didn't have one. so strange to be looking forward to a vendor's catalog.
You're right, Scott, they usually just piss me off, too. But, Veer's just seem to be getting better and better. And, no, you don't have to buy anything to get them.
Someone told me today you can stop spam by coming to your mailbox by requesting at the post office that you don't recieve any non first class mail (any mail not sent directly to you for the correct postage). It's an interesting idea, but then of course you wouldn't get all those cute coupons, cute designs, and cute sheets of paper you can scan for interesting yet unique textures. Try the texture of pizza cheese from all those pizza hut ads sometime.
I received that a few weeks ago! I'd forgotten that I was on their list, so it was a very pleasant surprise! I have yet to play with it, but it's in my shoulder bag for inspiration and entertainment.
Yes. I get the Veer catalogs and they absolutely rule. It's every bit as exciting to me to get the latest Veer catalog as it is to get the last issue of Stuff magazine. Seriously.
Yeah I got the Victoria's secret catalog too. Great stuff. Oh, you mean you're talking about a _different_ catalog? Whoops.
I agree this is by far the best thing I've seen from Veer, so good infact, my wife stole, I mean, STOLE, it from me. Veer's catalogs are just plain fun to look at and they are inspiring. If's there's ever a reason to buy fonts, Veer makes them clear. Since I don't have the actual summer fun book right now, atleast the PDF will do. :)
OK, final word, you do or do not need to purchase something from Veer to receive their catalogs?
I registered an account months ago and have yet to receieve any catalogs.
Update, after contacting Veer they will be sending me the Summer Activity book.
Companies often survive by their customer service, and Veer's is incredible. They even work on weekends, resolving this issue today - Saturday, within hours.


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josko.ri wrote:I am not at all disappointed in TOFU members for public acting like "top sports" when it is about speaking how they will be more than happy to replay a game screwed by site glitch, and then when it happens for real they change their opinion in totally opposite direction in order to advance to next round. Similar doings have already been seen by them in many past instances so I did not expected they will do different this time.
I am very disappointed in admins who did not come here and fix the injustice which is entirely their fault. The site glitch caused that around 25-30 KORT players who pay to this site for management and service lose their one year effort which was put in playing and managing leadership for this Cup, to be at the end eliminated by one game, which was decided by the site glitch. It is no need to say that majority of those players play more or less only clan games, and since CCup is the biggest clan event, they practically spend major part of their money to participate in this competition, to realize that at the end fault from the site service eliminated them from the competition. With putting site admins' heads in the sand when problem occurs rather than face the problem and find the fairest solution to solve it, it is not weird that in time of writing this post the site has 13.635 members, which is the lowest number in last several years.
KORT members showed their class, we do not call TOFU members with offensive names nor we give them all 1 stars ranks and rank description "Cowards", like they did when they felt unfairly eliminated in our first war. They may present this to public however they wish and act like great sports, but the plain fact is that they decided to get the win awarded to them by site glitch with no KORT's fault in that, while in our first war we got the win awarded by TOFU's mistake, so TOFU suffered the loss because of their own mistake, and KORT suffers the loss because of mistake from third party, which is in essence much more unfair, no matter how they try to present it to public.
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Emysogland needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 12 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Meridian Valuation Services
I am a small business appraiser looking to gain marketshare. I've been practicing for many years. The difference is that I am one of a few that market this type of professional service...especially to the business owner directly. I am competing against accountants, other appraisers, brokers so I am trying to portray a company that is very professional. I uploaded a couple of samples that we roughed up.
Small and midsized business owners. This postcard is a solicitation for business owners to have their companies appraised.
Company types are retail, distribution, and manufacturing companies.
Dimension: 8.5 x 5.5" (so two can fit on one page when going to printer)
No white on the edges, so full bleed. Basically, I want this to be "print shop ready" when you are done.
I'd like the file delivered in eps (for the printer), pdf (so I can easy show someone), and inDesign if possible
This is my first project like this, so certainly don't hesitate to ask questions.


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Cannon Beach is located in Clatsop County on the Northern Oregon Coast. Cannon Beach was named after a small, iron cannon that came ashore from a shipwrecked U.S. Navy schooner, "The Shark.
Although incorporated in 1955, the Native residents of what is now known as Cannon Beach were visited by William Clark as early as 1806. The area has also been known as Ecola (from the Salish "E cu-la" meaning whale) and Elk Creek.
Cannon Beach is recognized by its well-known landmark, Haystack Rock, located to the southwest of downtown Cannon Beach, near Tolovana Park. This igneous rock has an elevation of 235 feet, and is often accessible at low tide, especially in the summertime. There is a small cave system that penetrates the rock and can be seen from the coastline. The rock is also protected as a marine sanctuary, Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Near Haystack Rock are the Needles, two tall rocks rising straight out of the water.
Downtown Cannon Beach is filled with small businesses. Chain stores such as Safeway and McDonald's have been discouraged from building in Cannon Beach in order to preserve the local economy and small town feel. A wooden whale commemorating the encounter between Clark, his companions and the Native Americans sits in a small park at the northern end of Hemlock Street.
Cannon Beach, a popular vacation resort, extends for four miles along the Pacific Ocean. The downtown commercial area is approximately four blocks on the north end of Hemlock Street - the main street thru town. It is adorned with bright flowers and lots of places to stop and sit. South of "downtown," is the area known as "midtown." The far south end is known as Tolovana Park.
The arts are emphasized in Cannon Beach, and some of the best crafts, shopping and galleries on the coast are located here. The city is planned for strolling, and many visitors take advantage of this to visit the quaint bookstores, shops and bistros. Strict planning regulations have helped Cannon Beach keep its earth toned, rustic look.
Stroll along the 9 mile stretch of beach, fly a kite, watch the sea creatures in the tidepools, or take pictures of famous Haystack Rock. Relaxing on the beach is part of the Cannon Beach experience. The tidepools in the Marine Garden are dynamic areas rich with marine life such as seastars, anemones, crabs, algae, and many others. Collecting is strictly prohibited and it is crucial to be aware and use extreme caution while walking in these areas. The marine life in and around the Marine Garden is very vulnerable to human disturbance.
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LONGMONT -- Any new connections created to link the trail networks on federal, state and locally owned lands in western Boulder County's mountain and foothills areas should be designed with multiple kinds of users in mind, Bicycle Longmont president Ryan Kragerud suggested on Wednesday night.
Kragerud argued that a commitment to making sure those trail systems' connections would be available to cyclists, hikers, backpackers and horseback riders -- and not just limited to one or two of those kinds of users -- would help build a broad coalition for the multi-agency effort that's under way to plan such a regional trail system in western Boulder County.
Bryan Ganzel, a member of both the Bicycle Longmont and Boulder Mountainbike Association boards, said government agencies should "try to make sure the trails go where people want to be" and should consider including sets of trails that deliberately cater to would-be users' various skill levels.
Maribeth Pecotte said users of trails that traverse several government agencies' lands should expect that the same standards and regulations will apply to them wherever they may be on those treks.
Kragerud, Ganzel and Pecotte were among the 16 people who showed up for Wednesday night's trail-planning listening session at the Longmont Public Library. It was one of 11 such meetings being held by Boulder County and several other government agencies that are working on an effort to hear what county residents would like to see in an interconnected regional trails network on publicly owned lands in the mountains and foothills.
Several of the people attending the meeting indicated they'd also like better links and extensions to public trails systems in eastern Boulder County, as well as an improved trails network in and near Longmont itself.
Kim Shugar, the natural resources manager for Longmont's Public Works and Natural Resources Department, said the city has such a trails planning process under way.
Some of Wednesday's meeting-goers also appeared to chafe at the restrictions and limits for recreational users at the city's Button Rock Preserve west of Lyons, an area that lies within the Regional Mountain Trails planning area that's the primary focus of the project involving Boulder County, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the cities of Longmont and Boulder.
Due in part to a court decision won by private property owners in the Button Rock area, the city allows only hiking and fishing on its property there, with no biking, horses or motor vehicles permitted.
"That's not going to change," predicted Garry Sanfacon, a member of the Boulder County commissioners' staff who's serving as outreach director for the mountain and foothills trails planning project.
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South Carolina inmate indicted following threats against president, president-elect
A federal grand jury has indicted a man who is currently being held in prison with threatening the lives of the president and president-elect.
Kipper Ken King, 30, of Spartanburg, South Carolina was charged last Wednesday in a two-count indictment.
If convicted of the new charges, King faces up to an additional five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
King is being held in the Spartanburg County Detention Center after a July arrest on burglary and grand larceny charges.
He was previously arrested in May 2014 on a public disorderly conduct charge in connection with a confrontation with police while he was skateboarding, and in October 2015 on charges of assault and battery, public disorderly conduct and illegal graffiti vandalism, according to court records.


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Excel Vbscript ASAP
Presupuesto $30-250 AUD
Scan through the text files and retrieve the words next to "FROM" and "JOIN" words and put into Excel
1)Use Excel Vbscript
2)In scripting refer to excel cell using Cells method NOT Range method
Example: Use this way "Worksheets("Sheet1").Cells(1,1)"
Steps to do:
1)Scan through the text files [url removed, login to view] and [url removed, login to view]
2)Get first word after "FROM" and "JOIN"
3)Remove duplicate values
4)In file [url removed, login to view], don't select words "[" and "(SELECT" after the JOIN
5)Step2, Step3 and Step4 should be in seperate methods
Fore more clarity, refer to attached word docs, where color blue should be in excel cell and color red should be avoided
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This Date In Royals History – October 5, 1985
Today marks another championship clinching date for the Royals, this one for the magical 1985 season. Both by date on the calendar and game of the season, this clinching date was the latest in Royals history.
Saturday, October 5, 1985, was the next to the last game of the 1985 season and the Royals were home against the Oakland A's. The Angels started the day two games behind with two to play but had already defeated the Rangers in Arlington early that afternoon; the Royals needed to win or California could still catch Kansas City for a tie at the wire. Willie Wilson made sure game 162 was irrelevant.
The A's jumped in front 4-0 through six innings, but George Brett got the Royals going with a two-run HR in the sixth. The next inning Frank White tied the score with a two-RBI single that drove home Lonnie Smith and George Brett. The game went into extra innings and in the bottom of the 10th Willie Wilson lashed a two-out single into centerfield to score Pat Sheridan. The Royals had a 5-4 win and another American League Western Division Title. Oh the drama to come…
Just A Bit More: The starting pitcher in the clinching game was none other than Bret Saberhagen who tossed the first six innings followed by one scoreless inning from Joe Beckwith and three scoreless from winning pitcher Dan Quisenberry (that is Quiz and Charlie Leibrandt celebrating in the above picture). Saberhagen would also start Game Seven of the ALCS but left in the third inning with an injury. And of course, he was the starter in Game Seven of the World Series when he shutout the Cardinals for the title. Three clinching games, three starts for Saberhagen and he definitely saved his best for last.
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Europe! Hands Off Our Medicine!
A Global Campaign to Stop the Attack on Affordable Medicines
Fall 2010
In their bid to protect pharmaceutical company profits, the European Commission is pushing policies that could cut the lifeline for millions of people in developing countries who rely on affordable generic medicines to stay alive. "Europe! Hands Off Our Medicine!" is Doctors Without Borders' campaign to push Europe to back down.
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, or MSF) and other health care organizations rely on affordable, quality-assured generic medicines to provide treatment to some of the poorest people across the globe. Most of these generic medicines are produced in India. In fact, 80% of the HIV medicines MSF uses to treat more than 160,000 people with HIV are made in India.
India: Pharmacy of the Developing World
Until recently, patents on actual medicines did not exist in India, only on the process to make them, which allowed the country to become an important source of affordable medicines. A patent is a right granted to a company or institution that allows it to prevent anyone else from selling a product (for example a medicine), usually for twenty years. This means that for twenty years, the company holding the patent has a monopoly on the medicine and is free to charge any price it wants, even if this means pricing it out of reach of those most in need. Patents have often stood in the way of being able to provide people with the treatment they need.
When drug patents did not exist in India, nothing was stopping many manufacturers from making generic versions of drugs that were patented in other countries. As generic companies competed for the market, prices came down dramatically, and drugs produced in India became some of the most affordable in the world. India became a key source of essential medicines, including medicines to treat HIV. Because of this fierce competition, the price of a standard HIV drug regimen dropped by over 99% over the past decade, from more than $10,000 per person per year in 2000 to under $70 today.
Indian generic medicines have played a critical role in getting more than five million people in developing countries on HIV treatment today. A recent study published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society reported that Indian generic manufacturers were the source of 87% of AIDS medicines purchased for developing countries by donors like PEPFAR and the Global Fund in 2008. But because of international trade rules and policies being promoted by the European Commission, the "pharmacy of the developing world" is at risk of being shut down.
Tightening the Screw
India is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the institution that sets and oversees international trade rules. As a WTO member, India had to agree to create a patent law that would cover medicines beginning in 2005. This move had a big impact on the ability of Indian generic manufacturers to produce affordable medicines in the future.
Starting in 2005, when a patent was granted on a medicine in India, local manufacturers could be prevented from producing cheaper generic versions. This affected not only India's domestic supply of affordable medicines, but also those of other countries that relied on importing medicines from India.
But when the Indian government designed its patent law, it made sure to include certain safeguards in the interest of public health. The law says that only drugs that can show an improved therapeutic effect over existing medicines deserve a patent. This means that companies cannot simply make minor changes to existing drugs (like combining two different drugs into one pill) and obtain a patent on the "new" drug. The law also allows anyone to challenge or oppose a patent by showing that the drug does not deserve a patent according to the law. In addition, no drug invented before 1995 can be patented in India. This means that generic production of older medicines is secured, but the situation is quite different for newer medicines.
The Treatment Timebomb
Despite these important protections built into the Indian patent law, the future of generic production in India looks bleak, especially when it comes to newer medicines. This is particularly important for people living with HIV. People require continuous access to newer medicines if side effects or drug resistance develops. Further, the last several years have brought new types of HIV medicines, providing people with HIV in wealthy countries many more treatment options. But their counterparts in developing countries will likely have a long wait before benefiting from these new drugs.
Most if not all of these newer medicines will likely be patented in India, blocking the production of affordable generic versions. In fact, some new medicines, such as Isentress and Intelence have already been patented in India, blocking the generic competition that led to deep price drops for the first HIV drugs. The most affordable second-line HIV regimen costs seven times more than the most affordable first-line regimen. And a possible third-line regimen could cost nearly 50 times as much. This means that treatment will once again be priced out of reach for the millions of people who will need newer medicines to stay alive. With growing numbers of people in urgent need of treatment, this is a time bomb waiting to explode.
Europe Attacks Access
Just as the outlook for affordable medicines in developing countries was becoming dismal due to India's patent law, the European Union stepped in to deal several more blows. Europe's attack is taking a variety of forms, targeting essentially every aspect of medicine supply. It could affect production, registration, sale of and trade in generic medicines and will disrupt patients' ability to receive affordable treatment for HIV and other diseases.
To give one example: Europe is negotiating for India to introduce "data exclusivity," which allows pharmaceutical companies to keep private, for a certain amount of time, the clinical trial data for medicines that they had originally developed. This would be the policy whether the drug is patented or not. It would mean that generic manufacturers could not register their medicines simply by proving that they have the same therapeutic effect as the brand-name product; they would be forced to provide their own clinical trial data for their generic versions of the drugs, because the original data would not be public. Clinical trials are not only very expensive, but redoing trials for already proven medicines is not ethical, as it means withholding effective medicines from some people in the trial. Data exclusivity would effectively delay or even block generic medicines, reserving the market for the large pharmaceutical companies that keep prices high.
Another way European governments have been attacking access is by detaining shipments of legitimate generics that are traveling through Europe from India on their way to patients in developing countries. European custom officials have staged more than a dozen such raids at airports, and some shipments have even been sent back to India. Europe claims this is done to protect the public in an effort to crack down on counterfeit medicines. But this has nothing to do with fakes. Delaying these shipments has resulted in people having had their treatment interrupted. For people with HIV who need to take their medicines on schedule, delays can be very dangerous.
Europe has been launching these attacks against the backdrop of millions of people who do not have access to the essential medicines they need to stay alive. These actions are incredibly destructive at a time when tight budgets are already drying up the money needed to put people on treatment -- the largest treatment providers such as the Global Fund and PEPFAR are facing severe funding shortfalls. Pushing policies that keep drug prices high when funds for treatment are short will deepen the health inequalities between patients in rich and poor countries, and lead to more unnecessary deaths.
Fighting Back
The European Commission must be stopped before it is too late and people in poor countries have to pay the price. Protests have already been organized across the developing world, including India, Indonesia, Brazil, Nepal, and Thailand by networks of people with HIV demanding that Europe stop its campaign against their lifeline to affordable medicines.
We ask that everyone, everywhere, help us in this fight by sending a message to Europe to keep its hands off our medicine. Please visit action.msf.org to sign and send an email to the European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, calling on him to put a halt to Europe's destructive policies. For more information on this and other issues surrounding essential medicines, visit MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines online at msfaccess.org.
Médecins Sans Frontières is an international medical humanitarian organization that provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe. The MSF Access Campaign works to improve access to existing medical tools and to stimulate the development of urgently needed improved tools.
This article was provided by ACRIA and GMHC. It is a part of the publication Achieve. Visit ACRIA's website and GMHC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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