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Partners pledge innovative, coordinated action aimed at new World Health Organisation goals
London, 30 January 2012 – Today, 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K. and U.A.E governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other global health organisations announced a new, coordinated push to accelerate progress toward eliminating or controlling 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the end of the decade.
Uniting efforts with NTD-endemic countries, partners pledged to bring a unique focus to defeating these diseases and to work together to improve the lives of the 1.4 billion people worldwide affected by NTDs, most of whom are among the world's poorest.
In the largest coordinated effort to date to combat NTDs, the group announced at an event at the Royal College of Physicians that they would: sustain or expand existing drug donation programs to meet demand through 2020; share expertise and compounds to accelerate research and development of new drugs; and provide more than US$785 million to support R&D efforts and strengthen drug distribution and implementation programmes. Partners also endorsed the "London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases," in which they pledged new levels of collaborative effort and tracking of progress.
"Today, we have joined together to increase the impact of our investments and build on the tremendous progress made to date," said Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "This innovative approach must serve as a model for solving other global development challenges and will help millions of people build self-sufficiency and overcome the need for aid." The Gates Foundation announced a five-year, US$363 million commitment to support NTD product and operational research.
To guide the effort against NTDs, the World Health Organisation (WHO) this week unveiled a new strategy, Accelerating work to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases—A roadmap for implementation, that sets targets for what can be achieved by the end of the decade.
"The efforts of WHO, researchers, partners, and the contributions of industry have changed the face of NTDs. These ancient diseases are now being brought to their knees with stunning speed," said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO. "With the boost to this momentum being made today, I am confident almost all of these diseases can be eliminated or controlled by the end of this decade."
New commitments from partners will close the funding gap to eradicate Guinea worm disease and expedite progress toward the 2020 goals of elimination for lymphatic filariasis, blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness and leprosy, and control of soil-transmitted helminthes, schistosomiasis, river blindness, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Speaking on behalf of the CEOs of the 13 pharmaceutical companies involved, Sir Andrew Witty, CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, said, "Many companies and organisations have worked for decades to fight these horrific diseases. But no one company or organisation can do it alone. Today, we pledge to work hand-in-hand to revolutionize the way we fight these diseases now and in the future."
With new and existing pledges totaled, companies will donate an average of 1.4 billion treatments each year to those in need, according to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA). In addition, new research and development collaborative efforts and access agreements with 11 companies and the R&D organisation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) are providing unprecedented access to compound libraries that could lead to new treatments. These commitments will work in parallel with other efforts to speed the development of critical NTD treatments, including WIPO Re:Search, a database of research compounds, knowledge and expertise.
To close the funding gap for Guinea worm eradication, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, the Gates Foundation, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation will donate US$40 million to The Carter Center. These commitments complement an October pledge from the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) that it would contribute £20 million if others come forward—part of a four-year, £195 million commitment to NTDs announced by DFID last week.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) also announced an $89 million appropriation by the U.S. Congress to strengthen drug delivery and distribution programmes, building on its US$212 million investment since 2006. In addition, the World Bank will extend its financing and technical support to help African countries build stronger community health systems that will integrate NTD elimination and control, as well as work with other partners to expand a trust fund to combat river blindness to other preventable NTDs in Africa.
"The world has come together to end the neglect of these horrific diseases which needlessly disable, blind and kill millions of the world's poorest," said Stephen O'Brien, U.K. Minister for International Development. "Britain and other partners are leading the way to provide critical treatments to millions of people, which allow children to attend school and parents to provide for their families so that they can help themselves out of poverty and eventually no longer rely on aid."
Today's pledges and Declaration come in response to WHO's 2010 report, Working to overcome the global impact of neglected tropical diseases, which called for new resources to overcome NTDs. Representatives from the pharmaceutical industry, the Gates Foundation and other partners worked during the past year to develop this expanded, coordinated effort.
The governments of Bangladesh, Brazil, Mozambique and Tanzania, where NTDs are endemic, announced that they would implement integrated plans to defeat NTDs and devote political and financial resources to combat these diseases. All partners pledged accountability by exploring mechanisms to regularly track progress toward the 2020 goals.
"From the moment the evidence of the very heavy burden of NTDs in Mozambique was understood, the government of Mozambique has taken action and continuously increased its commitment and investment to control or eliminate these diseases," said Dr. Alexandre Manguele, Minister of Health of Mozambique. "With the resources pledged today in the context of this partnership the government of Mozambique feels ever more assured that the mission can be accomplished."
Sustaining, Expanding and Extending Drug Supply:
· All companies with NTD drug donation programs pledged to sustain or extend their programs to the end of the decade, and some pledged to increase their commitments. These commitments include the following:
o Sanofi, Eisai and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will work together to provide 120 million DEC tablets to the WHO for its Global Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination programme. Combined with Eisai's donation commitment that will start in 2014, these new tablets will ensure a sufficient supply of DEC from 2012 through 2020.
o Bayer will double its existing donation of nifurtimox to treat Chagas disease.
o Eisai will extend its existing donation of 2.2 billion tablets of DEC for LF to 2020.
o Gilead, which announced a donation of AmBisome for visceral leishmaniasis in 2011, will continue its program to offer VL at cost and commit to investigate and invest in technologies and processes that could reduce that cost in resource-limited countries.
o GlaxoSmithKline will extend its existing donation of albendazole to treat soil-transmitted helminthes by providing 400 million tablets per year for an additional five years to 2020, as well as continuing its donation of 600 million tablets per year to combat lymphatic filariasis.
o Johnson & Johnson will extend its existing donation of mebendazole for soil-transmitted helminthes by providing 200 million tablets per year to 2020.
o MSD will continue its unlimited donation of ivermectin to combat river blindness and lymphatic filariasis (where co-endemic with river blindness), as well as discuss the use of ivermectin to combat other diseases.
o Merck KGaA will significantly increase its annual donation of praziquantel tablets from 25 million to 250 million tablets per year, extending the program indefinitely.
o Novartis will extend its commitment to provide multi-drug therapy (rifampicin, clofazimine and dapsone) to leprosy patients worldwide in a final push against the disease.
o Pfizer will continue its donation of azithromycin for blinding trachoma until at least 2020, as well as donate the drug and placebo to a study on the reduction in mortality of children treated with azithromycin.
o Sanofi will extend its existing donation of eflornithine, melarsoprol and pentamidine for sleeping sickness to 2020, as well as logistical support to ensure that the drugs continue to reach patients at the point of care cost-free.
Accelerating R&D for New Treatments:
· Product development partnerships under the coordination of DNDi with Abbott, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer are underway to develop new drugs to treat helminth infections, notably a macrofilaricide, which kills adult worms that cause river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.
o Abbott is conducting initial drug reformulation studies and providing scientific expertise for preclinical development, with technical and supply assistance from Johnson & Johnson.
o If pre-clinical development is successful, Johnson & Johnson will co-fund clinical development, and collaborate with other partners, including technical support from Pfizer's staff scientists. J&J would obtain regulatory approval.
· Innovative licensing or collaboration agreements with DNDi by 11 companies—Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eisai, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer and Sanofi—are in negotiation or underway for the sharing of compounds and knowledge in order to generate new drugs for diseases including river blindness, lymphatic filariasis, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
· DNDi and Sanofi announced a product development collaboration to co-develop a new drug candidate for sleeping sickness, oxaborole/SCYX-7158, in addition to fexinidazole, which is already in clinical development.
Increasing funding to improve drug product and operational research, delivery and implementation programmes, including prevention, monitoring and education:
· Several partners announced US$40 million in new funding to The Carter Center that will close the gap to eradicate Guinea worm. The Gates Foundation will contribute US$23.3 million, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, will contribute US$10 million and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation will contribute US$6.7 million.
· This funding complements £20 million in funding from DFID, announced last week as part of a £195 million commitment through 2015, targeted at Guinea worm disease, lymphatic filariasis, river blindness and schistosomiasis, as well as developing new programmes for blinding trachoma, visceral leishmaniasis, research and integrated country approaches.
· The Gates Foundation announced a 5-year, US$363 million commitment to overcome barriers to success and address critical gaps to achieve the control and elimination of targeted NTDs by 2020.
· USAID will continue support to over 20 countries to introduce and/or scale up integrated NTD programs, including three new countries: Mozambique, Senegal and Cambodia. The U.S. Congress appropriated $89 million to USAID for NTD control in FY2012.
· At the country level, the World Bank will extend its financing and technical support to help countries build stronger community health systems that will integrate NTD elimination and control. At the regional level, the World Bank will continue fiduciary oversight of the existing trust fund that supports the fight against river blindness in Africa, and will also work with other partners to expand the trust fund to eliminate or control preventable NTDs on the continent.
· Mundo Sano contributed US$5 million to expand work in NTD control and program enhancement for selected sites in the Americas and Africa.
· The Government of Mozambique announced specific goals for NTD control and elimination in endemic areas of the country, including:
o Reaching full geographic coverage of all endemic areas for lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminthes and schistosomiasis
o Completely mapping and reaching full geographic coverage of trachoma by 2018
o Building capacity for surveillance and action to sustain gains from mass drug administration programs
· The Governments of Brazil, Tanzania, Bangladesh and other NTD-endemic countries announced implementation of fully integrated or coordinated plans to control and eliminate NTDs in their countries.
· Three pharmaceutical companies—Merck KGaA, Novartis and Sanofi— will organize and provide funding to support prevention, monitoring, education and intensified disease control efforts.
· Lions Clubs International announced US$6.9 million in funding to support the Government of China in efforts to eliminate blinding trachoma by 2017.
Coordinating and measuring NTD commitments: Industry partners pledged to work together toward the achievement of the 2020 goals. Based on the WHO roadmap, partners will follow collective progress through a scorecard that will regularly and formally track progress including whether participating organisations are meeting their supply, research, funding and implementation commitments to work toward the 2020 goals. This process will ensure accountability and transparency and identify remaining gaps.
Participants at today's event at the Royal College of Physicians include:
· Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organisation
· Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, US Agency for International Development
· Dr. Jörg Reinhardt, Chairman of the Board of Management, Bayer HealthCare AG
· Lamberto Andreotti, Chief Executive Officer, Bristol-Myers Squibb
· Haruo Naito, President and CEO, Eisai
· Sir Andrew Witty, Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline
· William Weldon, Chairman, Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, Executive committee
· e, Johnson & Johnson
· Kenneth Frazier, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, MSD
· Dr. Stefan Oschmann, Executive Board member, Merck KGaA, with responsibility for the Pharmaceuticals business sector
· Joseph Jimenez, Chief Executive Officer, Novartis
· Christopher A. Viehbacher, Chief Executive Officer, Sanofi
· Paul Carter, Senior Vice President, International Commercial Operations, Gilead
· Dr. Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
· Dr. Caroline Anstey, Managing Director, World Bank
· Dr. AFM Ruhal Haque, Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
· Dr. Jarbas Barbosa da Silva, Jr., Vice Minister for Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Brazil
· Dr. Alexandre Lourenço Jaime Manguele, Minister of Health, Mozambique
· Dr. Donan Mmbando, Director of Preventive Services, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Tanzania
A webcast of this event can be viewed at www.UnitingToCombatNTDs.org
Editor's Note: Media contacts for partners follow:
· Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: +1 (206) 709 3400, email@example.com
· DFID: Robert Stansfield, +44 (0) 77 7165 2597, email@example.com
· USAID: Christopher Thomas, +1 (202) 712 1092, email@example.com
· AstraZeneca: Sarah Lindgreen, +44 (0) 20 7604 8033, email@example.com
· Abbott: Colin McBean, +1 (847) 938 3083, email@example.com
· Bayer HealthCare AG: Oliver Renner, +49 (0) 21 4304 3302, firstname.lastname@example.com
· Bristol-Myers Squibb: Patrice Grand, +33 (0) 1 5883 6706 email@example.com
· Eisai: Cressida Robson, +44 (0) 79 0831 4155, firstname.lastname@example.com
· Gilead: Amy Flood, +1 (650) 522 5643, email@example.com
· GlaxoSmithKline (Global): Stephen Rea, +44 (0) 77 1780 1794, email@example.com | GlaxoSmithKline (US): Sarah Alspach, +1 (215) 287 6354, email@example.com
· Johnson & Johnson, Seema Kumar, +1 (908) 218 6460, firstname.lastname@example.com
· Merck KGaA: Dr. Gangolf Schrimpf, +49 (151) 1454 9591, firstname.lastname@example.com
· MSD: Kelley Dougherty, +1 (908) 423 4291, firstname.lastname@example.com
· Novartis: Eric Althoff, +41 (0) 61 324 7999, firstname.lastname@example.com
· Pfizer: Andrew Topen, +44 (0) 79 6775 7688, email@example.com
· Sanofi: Jean-Marc Podvin, +33 (0) 6 7457 5170, firstname.lastname@example.com
· DNDi: Gabrielle Landry Chappuis, +41 (0) 79 309 3910, email@example.com
· World Bank: Derek Warren, +44 (0) 20 7592 8402, firstname.lastname@example.com


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The man speaks sense—words worth listening to...
Enterprise employees can be inspiring, but that depends on said enterprise that they work for. A place that fosters creativity, thinking outside the box, and new ideas leads to happy workers who are open to change if it means making their day to day routine more enjoyable. Let's just say that having 30,000+ workers doesn't make for an accomodating work environment for new ideas and embracing change. Integrating iOS and thinking of mobile development in parallel with desktop software development for this many users isn't an easy or quick task and for that reason the Surface may succeed very well in the enterprise. It's more of the same. Buried underneath that beautiful Metro interface is Windows. Pure Windows able to run that software developed in 1992, not needing Citrix remote desktop apps, and not needing 100's of new apps bought to open Office documents that don't format or display properly on iOS.I agree with this: the Surface will be largely adopted in enterprise environments.
Goliath Wants Your Market
In enterprise, Apple is David. The Goliath in enterprise that is Microsoft wants Apple's market in mobile enterprise. Apple hasn't entrenched itself nearly deep enough in enterprise. Microsoft has the ability to successfully corner the mobile enterprise market just as it has with the desktop enterprise market. Goliath is bringing the Surface to the table and inside of the enterprise market, it has a fighting chance of succeeding.
Outside of enterprise, I think it's a different story. I think the Surface will fail miserably, but that's another post I intend on publishing later this week.I'll look forward to that.
Labels: Apple, business, computing, technology
The former Chancellor said it was "surreal" that the First Minister can claim the remainder of the UK would willingly share control over the pound and interest rates without checking first.And why would this be such a bad idea? Because, of course, currency union without fiscal union is precisely what has the current disaster in the Eurozone so inevitable.
In reality, he said it was difficult to imagine English politicians managing to "sell" this to their constituents. Mr Darling concluded an independent Scotland would be more like "serfdom than freedom" if monetary policy was set by a different country.
The Treasury confirmed that Mr Salmond has had no discussions with the Bank of England about a "currency union" after separation and an independent Scotland would have no influence over sterling.
HSBC has targeted MPs with demands for sensitive private information as part of a crackdown by the bank on "politically exposed" customers. The move has left some feeling they will lose their banking facilities unless they comply.
A Labour MP who is a longstanding customer of HSBC contacted Guardian Money to say he had been asked by the bank to disclose information about his finances, including accounts he has with other banks, and his "sources of wealth".
At first he thought it may be a "phishing" scam, where fraudsters try to obtain people's private details by masquerading as their bank or an official body, but the letter was genuine, and was followed up earlier this month by a phone call. The MP, who declined to be named, says he explained to the bank that the information being sought was "inappropriate", and when he asked what would happen if he didn't co-operate, the suggestion was that his account may be closed.
The answer, it transpired, is that HSBC has decided the MP is in a category of high-risk customers known as "politically exposed persons", or Peps. Even though, according to HM Revenue & Customs, he definitely isn't one of those. And he hasn't been singled out for special (mis)treatment. It is understood that every MP who banks with HSBC is being quizzed – and, presumably, other public figures, too.
When practising abroad as an international lawyer, I often had to raise with clients dealing with companies associated with local politicians the delicate issue of money laundering. You can imagine how the politicians concerned reacted when informed that English legislation required enquiries as to their past, and contractual provisions as to their possible future, misconduct. I rather tired of apologising for it. I can't quantify how much business was lost because of these laws, but let's face it, the counterparties had other, easier choices.
As I never had to deal with UK politicians, I did not realise until this morning that they had exempted themselves. Here is the HMRC guidance mentioned in The Guardian article (my emphasis);
In some situations you must carry out 'enhanced due diligence'. These situations are:
- When the customer isn't physically present when you carry out identification checks.
- When you enter into a business relationship with a 'politically exposed person'. Typically, a politically exposed person is an overseas member of parliament, a head of state or government or a government minister.
Note that a UK politician isn't a politically exposed person.
- Any other situation where there's a higher risk of money laundering.
"Why should they want this information, unless there's some indication that there is something amiss?"
Labels: don't say we didn't warn you, finance, general hilarity, hilarious lack of self-awareness, mind-boggling hypocrisy, politics, thieving bastards
Exhaust fumes from diesel engines do cause cancer, a panel of experts working for the World Health Organization says.Whilst smoking has been the bete noire for lung cancer for some decades, the habit's portrayal in the media as the prime cause of lung cancer has never made any sense. Comparing per capita lung cancer rates with per capita smoking rates has seen the data move in opposite directions: whilst rates of lung cancer have increased, smoking has decreased.
It concluded that the exhausts were definitely a cause of lung cancer and may also cause tumours in the bladder.
But director of cancer information Dr Lesley Walker said the overall number of lung cancers caused by diesel fumes was "likely to be a fraction of those caused by smoking tobacco".Um. Yes. Possibly. Although, given the lack of evidence for health effects from second-hand smoke, quite possibly not.
Labels: don't say we didn't warn you, health risks, healthcare, medical care, statements of the blindingly obvious
Not much new — no USB 3.0 ports like the whole MacBook lineup got today, and still no Thunderbolt. Why did Apple even bother?
Thanks for your email. Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didn't have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today's event, don't worry as we're working on something really great for later next year. We also updated the current model today.
We've been continuing to update Final Cut Pro X with revolutionary pro features like industry leading multi-cam support and we just updated Aperture with incredible new image adjustment features.
We also announced a MacBook Pro with a Retina Display that is a great solution for many pros.
Labels: Apple, computing, technology
At which point the absurdity of trade restrictions becomes apparent, because imports should matters to everyone involved in trade. Other countries may even be stupid enough to put up barriers to stop their citizens enjoying the lovely things that we make. But why on earth should our reaction be to put up barriers to stop us enjoying the lovely things that foreigners make?Quite. Let me illustrate this with an actual example...
Yet this is what trade negotiations are all about. The UK will reduce tariffs on electronic tat only if Taiwan will reduce tariffs on whatever we export. If you don't stop making your citizens poorer then gosh darn it we'll just make ours poorer to spite you!
It was the more-Keynesian-than-Keynes Cambridge economist, Joan Robinson, who pointed out that other people putting rocks into their harbours is no justification for putting rocks into your own.
The problem we have with trade and trade negotiations is that our politicians are simply too stupid to realise this. Simply declare free trade unilaterally, so that we can purchase whatever we want from wherever. And if Johnny Foreigner doesn't do the same then more fool Johnny Foreigner.
Labels: business, rampant idiocy, statements of the blindingly obvious, trade
We define a Fake Charity as any organisation registered as a UK charity that derives more than 10% of its income—and/or more than £1 million—from the government, while also lobbying the government. That lobbying can take the form of calling for new policies, changes to the law or increases in (their own) funding.And then we set up the fakecharities.org website, in order to inform people about these organisations, and to enable them to search a database in order to satisfy themselves as to whether the charity that they gave money to was, indeed, a fake.
Some of these organisations spend a large amount of their time lobbying the state to curtail our freedoms and not all charities are upfront about the amount of money they receive from the state.A great many other people—mostly recruited through The Kitchen—helped to build up the site's database; but it was a colossal task. There seemed to be so many of them and, in order to keep things current, the accounts had to be checked every year.
When an 'independent' charity takes a political stand or attempts to sway public opinion on matters of policy, we think you have a right to know whether they are being funded by the generosity of the public or by the largesse of the state. We think you have the right to know whether you're listening to a genuine grass-roots charity or are being fed PR from an astro-turfed lobby group. This site exists to help you make up your own mind about who these campaigners are really working for.
The report [PDF] is very comprehensive, tracking the rise of this practice—stemming, almost inevitably, from a relaxation of the laws about the amount of political campaigning charities can do. I commend it to you all.
Commenting on the report, Christopher Snowdon, its author, said:
- In the last 15 years, state funding of charities in Britain has increased significantly. 27,000 charities are now dependent on the government for more than 75 per cent of their income and the 'voluntary sector' receives more money from the state than it receives in voluntary donations.
- State funding weakens the independence of charities, making them less inclined to criticise government policy. This can create a 'sock puppet' version of civil society giving the illusion of grassroots support for new legislation. These state-funded activists engage in direct lobbying (of politicians) and indirect lobbying (of the public) using taxpayers' money, thereby blurring the distinction between public and private action.
- State-funded charities and NGOs usually campaign for causes which do not enjoy widespread support amongst the general public (e.g. foreign aid, temperance, identity politics). They typically lobby for bigger government, higher taxes, greater regulation and the creation of new agencies to oversee and enforce new laws. In many cases, they call for increased funding for themselves and their associated departments.
- Urgent action should be taken, including banning government departments from using taxpayer's money to engage in advertising campaigns, the abolition of unrestricted grants to charities and the creation of a new category of non-profit organisation, for organisations which receive substantial funds from statutory sources.
"It is appalling that for so long the government has got away with debasing the term 'charity'. Many so-called 'charities' are little more than fronts for state-funded campaigns or providers of state-funded services. It is vital that more transparency is introduced so the public know exactly what the government is funding. We also need much greater measures to prevent government squandering our money on trying to manipulate our opinions and behaviour."
Labels: a travesty, fake charities, fakecharities.org, freedom (the on-going death of...), shameful corruption, state funding, state transparency, t'internet, think-tanks
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If you [baby boomers in general, and Chris Dillow in particular] want angry, empowered youth, then don't spend the first 25 years of their lives teaching them that the bland, unquestioning, isolating conformity which suits your desire to retain cultural and social dominance is for their own good.Quite.
Your methods of upbringing are what created today's 23-year-olds who fret over whether they can afford to buy a house in Barnes. Your parental indulgence is why others of your children still live in your council house with three kids of their own, no spouse, and no job.
You didn't teach them to see the value in standing up for their future because you didn't want them to do that—because it might hurt yours. You've told them all of their lives that somebody else would sort out their problems, take their part, and make the world right for them; you've taught them that dependence has no cost and entitlements have no price and one's desires are automatically others' debts to pay—why should they not believe you now? You have no right to complain. You promised them the earth; they're just waiting patiently for you to provide it for them.
Labels: culture, don't say we didn't warn you, hilarious lack of self-awareness, kids, musings, society

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Consolidated Metrics Dashboard Report
The Consolidated Project Dashboard report extracts a copy of the
Metrics Dashboard
worksheet from each project and adds it into a saveable workbook. The worksheet tabs show the names of the projects. This can be used as a status reporting tool, where the project managers are required to update the comments field on a regular basis.


text: Comprised of a "ever changing constellation of international vagabonds" and helmed by Zach Van Hoozer, the indie rock project Zulu Pearls are a definite anomaly in their native Berlin. Although indie rock's span continues to grow across the globe, Berlin—like many major German cities—is most commonly known as a source for some of the best electronic music of the present day. The clean, almost shimmering guitars and and tenor vocals are hardly suited to a grimy club, sure, but they're perfectly suited for Zulu Pearls' latest video, the noir-esque "Boss of Your Heart", directed by James Slater.


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A few fortunate travelers take a grand tour of 3 different hotels in their chosen vacation destination. Where will they decide to stay? Find out at the end of each show!
The pool at the Trump International in Miami – one of the 3 hotels that the Scarpino family of Pennsylvania tours before settling in for their 5-night Miami getaway. Watch on July 12 at 10|9c to see which hotel they pick!


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All year long in 2013 I doubted Jhoulys Chacin. All year long Jhoulys Chacin performed admirably. Do I need to change my outlook on the righty from Colorado for the coming season? Let's take a gander and see what there is to see.
Chacin won 14 games over 45 starts in 2011-12. He won 14 games in 31 outings in 2013. You know what I think about victories. Here's the shorthand – they are extremely hard to predict and don't always reflect the success/failure of a hurler. Keep that in mind before you get too pumped up about Chacin's victory total.
Chacin owns a career 3.61 ERA. In the three seasons in his career in which he has thrown 135 innings his ERA's have been 3.28, 3.62 and 3.47. That's some solid pitching, especially for a guy in Coors Field. Not surprisingly though Chacin struggled at home (4.18 ERA) relative to his work on the road (2.44) in 2013. He's been slightly better than league average in ERA for his career, but he's always been below league average while pitching at home (4.18 ERA over 56 starts and 63 games).
Chacin has a career 1.33 WHIP. That's a few clicks above the NL average so it's not helping you out at all. Not surprisingly Chacin struggled a bit at home (1.29) when compared to his work on the road (1.22) last season. He's been slightly worse than league average in WHIP for his career.
Oh what happened to your K-ball Mr. Chacin? No need to get all fancy breaking down his strikeouts. I'll merely list for you his yearly K/9 marks which tell the whole story: 10.64, 9.04, 6.96, 5.87 and 5.75. Chacin struck out 126 batters in 2013. Aroldis Chapman struck out 112 batters in 2013 and he only threw 63.2 innings (Chacin was at 197.1). Chacin not only isn't going to help you in the strikeout column he's actually going to let you down. He's a negative in this category.
Chacin did one thing better last season than ever before – he cut down the walks. When you strike out fewer than six batters per innings, his mark over his last 45 starts, you need to keep the walk in checks. He did that very well with a 2.78 BB/9 mark in 2013. Here's the issue with that number. In each of his previous four seasons he walked at least four batters per nine innings. Do you believe the 2013 Chacin or the arm he had been for years previously? Call me a skeptic but I want to see another season at the 2013 level before I buy a ticket on that plane.
There's also another factor that leads me to be concerned. How does a guy give up a 24.5 percent line drive rate and have the results be a mere .288 BABIP and .253 batting average? When he allowed a 24.2 percent line drive rate in 2012 his BABIP was .311 and the BAA was .288. Those numbers are way more in line with what I would expect to see. There's also this. I know he's good at keeping the ball down in the zone but that 0.50 HR/9 mark was just too low. Not only was it substantially lower than his 0.77 career mark but his HR/F ratio really sticks out as a random, sample size situation. In three of his first four seasons his HR/F mark was in double-digits. Last season the mark was down at 6.2. It figures to creep back up in 2014.
So what do we have here? We've got a guy that, despite his success, I would rarely if ever suggest to someone to draft in a mixed league.
(1) You cannot depends on wins. (2) His K-rate is pitiful, so much so that he hurts you in the K column. (3) He's never shown the ability to limit walks like he did last year. (4) His line drive rate is too high to sustain his low BABIP and BAA from '13. (5) His HR/F rate was far too low in '13.
Given all of that, it's fair to posit an increase in his ERA in 2014, and the WHIP has a slightly better chance of ending up above 1.30 than below it. Chacin is a nice streaming option in mixed leagues, but again, I'm not rostering him on draft day in a standard mixed league and feeling pumped up about it.
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About Ray Flowers
The co-host of The Drive on SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio (Sirius 210, XM 87: Mon-Thurs 7 PM, Fri. 9 PM EDT), Ray also hosts a show Sunday night (7-10 PM EDT). Ray has spent years squirreled away studying the inner workings of the fantasy game to the detriment of his personal life. Specializing in baseball, football and hockey, some consider him an expert in all three.
- Drummond scores 19 points, grabs 24 boards in loss
- Parsons scores game high 32 points in win
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Pulse wave velocity in chronic kidney disease
Principal Investigator: Raymond Townsend
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Country: USA
Abstract: The National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) established the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study in 2001. The principal goals of the CRIC Study are to examine risk factors for chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression (i.e. further loss of kidney function) and cardiovascular events among patients with varying severity of CKD, and develop predictive models that will identify high-risk subgroups with CKD. The latter results will target enrollment of high-risk subjects into future treatment trials and increase application of available preventive therapies. Hypertension treatment has been the most effective intervention altering the course of renal function loss in CKD. However, the drugs used in the treatment of hypertension differ in their benefits on renal function. This raises the possibility that blood pressure reduction by itself only partly explains their beneficial effect and beckons a broader understanding of vascular adaptation to diseases such as CKD. Determination of the pulse wave velocity (PWV) a reflection of large vessel stiffness has provided useful information in cardiovascular disease epidemiology.
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- Analyzing the radial pulse waveform: narrowing the gap between blood pressure and outcomesRaymond R Townsend
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 16:261-6. 2007..This review will briefly recount the history behind this technology and discuss where it fits into the measurement of vascular properties that may predict outcomes such as death, heart attack, stroke or kidney disease progression...
- What's in a pulse? Part 2Radhika Katakam
Department of Medicine, Hypertension Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 8:288-90. 2006
- Chemotherapy agents and hypertension: a focus on angiogenesis blockadeManish Jain
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, 1 Gibson, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Curr Hypertens Rep 9:320-8. 2007....
- Correlation between pulse wave velocity and other measures of arterial stiffness in chronic kidney diseaseN J Wimmer
Department of Medicine, Renal Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Clin Nephrol 68:133-43. 2007..Given the large burden of cardiovascular disease in individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), assessing the relationship between vascular stiffness parameters in this population is important...
- Vascular compliance and arterial calcification: impact on blood pressure reductionRaymond R Townsend
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 17:93-8. 2008..The aim of this article is to review the relationship between vascular calcification and difficult to control hypertension. This does not address antihypertensive treatment of drug resistant hypertension per se...
- Vascular stiffness: its measurement and significance for epidemiologic and outcome studiesStephanie S DeLoach
Renal Division, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 3:184-92. 2008....
- Aortic calcification predicts cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in renal transplantationStephanie S DeLoach
Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA
Nephrol Dial Transplant 24:1314-9. 2009..Our objective was to prospectively examine the association of aortic calcification with cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality among asymptomatic incident renal transplant recipients...
- Aortic pulse pressure is associated with carotid IMT in chronic kidney disease: report from Chronic Renal Insufficiency CohortStephanie S DeLoach
Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Am J Hypertens 22:1235-41. 2009....


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This information is for people who have Crohn's disease. It tells you about azathioprine and mercaptopurine, treatments used for a flare-up of Crohn's disease. It is based on the best and most up-to-date research.
Do they work?
Yes. Taking
What are they?
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine are drugs that suppress your immune system. Azathioprine is often used for people who've had an organ transplant. It stops their immune system rejecting the new organ. Mercaptopurine is used as a treatment for some kinds of cancer. Both of these drugs are also used to treat Crohn's disease.
The brand name for azathioprine is
Your doctor will probably recommend that you take these medicines as tablets. You can also get azathioprine as an injection, but it can cause severe irritation at the spot where the needle goes in. [55]
How can they help?
If you're having a flare-up of Crohn's disease, taking azathioprine or mercaptopurine can help to get rid of your symptoms. [56]
In studies, 54 in 100 people got partly or totally better when they took azathioprine or mercaptopurine.
This compared with 33 in 100 people who improved after taking a dummy treatment (a placebo).
In studies where people were also being treated with steroids, taking azathioprine or mercaptopurine meant that people were able to take a lower dose of their steroid. [56]
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine worked best when people took them for 17 weeks or longer. [56]
How do they work?
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine affect your immune system, stopping it acting as strongly as it usually does. Drugs that do this are called immunosuppressants.
Your immune system plays an important part in causing inflammation in your body. So, treatments that stop your immune system working so hard can reduce the inflammation in your bowel and help get rid of Crohn's disease symptoms.
However, if these drugs suppress your immune system too much, it can mean your body isn't able to fight off infections very well.
Can they be harmful?
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine have side effects. In one study, 3 in 10 people got at least one side effect. [57] In another study, 1 in 10 people got a side effect bad enough for them to stop taking their treatment. [56]
Azathioprine and mercaptopurine can stop your body making as many white blood cells. [58] White blood cells are part of your immune system, and help to fight off bacteria and viruses. So, this side effect puts you at a higher risk of getting infections. If you take azathioprine or mercaptopurine for a long time, you'll need regular blood tests to make sure you have enough white blood cells. And if you notice an infection, make sure you see a doctor as soon as you can.


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Rebel Stronghold in Northern Mali Taken!
By Harold Hutchison
French, Malian, and other African troops have taken the town of Kidal, the last major stronghold of Islamist rebels who hijacked a Tuareg revolt that began in January 2012. French President Francois Hollande is about to visit the African country on Saturday.
According to a report by VOA News, French officials have declared their intervention in Mali a success, but that reconciliation process is needed. Malian President Dioncounda Traore refused the call to negotiate with Islamist rebels, but indicated a willingness to speak with a Tuareg group, provided the renounce a claim to Malian territory.
The Tuareg rebels broke with the Islamists after shaira law was imposed in the territory taken from the central government.


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Newberry's Goodwin, Catawba's Kronenfeld Earn Academic All-America Honors May 29, 2014 The 2014 Capital One Academic All-America Division II Baseball Team was unveiled on Thursday, with Newberry senior Chas Goodwin and Catawba senior Paul Kronenfeld earning selections from the SAC. [read more]
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Pleace dont stop dieting Stasha, a few more pounds and you be much more sexy. A girl is newer too skinny.
i would love to massage her body in oil all day long
I would love ta see her fully nude
Hello Stasha. I am a very skinny girl from Norway and i would love to getting even more skinny. I love your boddy and cant stopp thinking of your bones. But there is one problem, my husband think that i am alredy to skinny, he told me that he would not make love whith a skeleton, so what can i do, leave him?
Pobre tu marido que no sabe apreciar y disfrutar la belleza de la delgadez.La delgadez y los huesos no todos los hombres lo saben valorar.El es un estupido. Tu no te dejes menospreciar.
Kari, Please don't leave your husband if is loving you. But if he is really love you, he will make love with you no matter what your body. Maybe you model of this site if you like?
Hello, ok i will start on a hard diett now whitout asking my husband, iff he tries to stopp me i vill dump him becorse i have to be bonybeautiful. I can alredy count my ribs in the mirror vile i stand whit my arms down,that is very nice. My height is 168cm and my weight is 45 kg, i wonder how much Stasha weight. I vill be as skinny as she is and i look forward to get a bony boddy. Moddel here would be a dreem for me but whitout showing my face. I wil send a picture of me when my boddy is a bit skinnyer then now
Your husband is not right saying that.
He should worship your efforts.
Perfection takes time and you are on your way.
Divina chica. Divinos abs !!!


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The bill — signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Sam Brownback — contracts women's reproductive rights and puts the government in charge of women's health decisions. That is quite the contradiction to the mantra of less government. Here's how Brownback's office framed the bill in a recent press release:
SB 142 "prohibits civil actions for a claim of wrongful life or wrongful birth and prohibits recovery of damages in any civil action for any physical condition of a minor that existed at birth if such damages arise out of a claim that a person's action or omission contributed to the minor's mother not obtaining an abortion. The new law also amends the wrongful death statute to include 'unborn child' within the definition of 'person' for purposes of the statute, which would allow a wrongful death action for the death of an unborn child caused by the wrongful act or omission of another. 'Unborn child' is defined as a living individual organism of the species homo sapiens, in utero, at any stage of gestation from fertilization to birth."
Kansas lawmakers seemingly have forgotten that abortion is legal based on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade, and have decided to marginalize reproductive rights — continuing to chip away women's health rights until the decisions about their own bodies are left completely to the government. One can only imagine what kind of anxiety this change will make for physicians who now will avoid working with pregnant patients who could suddenly have a miscarriage and unintentionally lose a child, thus the doctor becoming an accessory to a crime because his or her action or omission might have contributed to the unborn child's death.
For some perhaps, the fewer liberties afforded to women in the Sunflower State will be a point of pride. Women won't even have to think about how to handle a pregnancy because the government has done all the needed thinking for them. Women will be able to capably move through their pregnancy without the advice of a doctor because Kansas' Big Brother government surely knows more than the patient and doctor on their own.
Of course, this isn't the first course correction legislators have taken on the path to removing women's reproductive rights. Kansas was ranked fourth for the most restrictive laws for abortion rights, but is well on its way to eclipsing Oklahoma's 22 separate provisions restricting women's access to abortion.
"None of these restrictions are based on scientific evidence concerning what is best for the health of the woman," Elizabeth Nash, with Guttmacher Institute, a research group in Washington, D.C. and New York, said. "The kinds of restrictions we see being passed are meant to make it more difficult for providers to perform abortions and more emotionally difficult for women to choose them."
Perhaps Kansas' formerly strong women just need to get used to being barefoot and pregnant because that's what Kansas lawmakers decided is best. Sadly, all three of Franklin County's lawmakers — state Sen. Caryn Tyson, R-Parker, and state Reps. Blaine Finch, R-Ottawa, and Kevin Jones, R-Wellsville — voted to support SB 142 and the restriction of women's rights.
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The Black Eyed Peas singer is now a proud mom! Fergie and her husband, 'Safe Haven' star Josh Duhamel, welcomed their first child together, a boy born named Axl Jack Duhamel, on Aug. 29. Congrats to the happy couple!
Fergie and husband Josh Duhamel have a new addition to the family! The singer and her actor hubby are the proud parents of a baby boy named Axl Jack Duhamel, born on Aug. 29 — congrats to the new family!
Fergie Welcomes A Little Boy
The 'Fergalicious' singer and her Transformers star husband, who have been married since 2009, shared the good news of her little boy's arrival on Aug. 29, he weighed in at 7lbs. 10 oz! They reportedly named their son after Guns 'N Roses singer Axl Rose.
Fergie showed up to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, for a scheduled c-section and her hubby was beaming!
Fergie is expected to stay in one of the VIP suites at the hospital, the same one used by Kim Kardashian. The suite will run her about $3,320 and it's equipped with luxurious amenities like a fully-stocked fridge, three gourmet meals a day, two bedrooms, two bathrooms and nice decor. Plus, if the new mommy wants to splurge even more, she can try out the salon services for a haircut, manicure, pedicure and more!
Fergie Super Excited About Motherhood
In an interview with E! News' at the Logo NewNowNext Awards in April, Fergie shared her and Josh's enthusiasm about becoming new parents.
"We're having so much fun, we're just dreaming and getting excited," she told E! News.
Josh also told E! News at an Omega Watches Planet Ocean launch in April that he sang to Fergie's baby belly and will take his new fatherhood role seriously.
"It's very important to me that we raise this kid right," he told E! News.
Fergie's Bandmates Are Thrilled For The New Mom
The Black Eyed Peas drummer apl.de.ap told E! News at the Time for Hope Gala in May that he loves his fellow bandmate like a sister and that the band is really excited about the new addition.
"It's mama time, it's Ferg time right now," the musician told E! News. "It's about the baby and her and Josh and the family now."
Congrats to Fergie and Josh! Are you happy for the couple, HollyMoms?
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The Fascinating Ways Meditation Transforms Your Brain -- and Why It Makes You Feel Better
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Meditation yields a surprising number of health benefits, including stress reduction, improved attention, better memory, and even increased creativity and feelings of compassion. But how can something as simple as focusing on a single object produce such dramatic results? Here's what the growing body of scientific evidence is telling us about meditation and how it can change the way our brains function.
Before we get started it's worth doing a quick review of what is actually meant by meditation. The practice can take on many different forms, but the one technique that appears most beneficial, and which also happens to be among the most traditional, is called mindfulness meditation, or focused attention.
By mindfulness, practitioners are asked to focus their thoughts on one thought and one thought alone. An overarching goal is to be firmly affixed to the present moment. This typically means concentrating on the breath — observing each inhalation and exhalation — and without consideration to other thoughts. When a "stray" thought arises, the practitioner must be quick to recognize it, and then turn back to the focus of their attention. And it doesn't just have to be the breath; any single thought, like a mantra, will do.
Now, if you've ever tried it, you know how unbelievably difficult this is — particularly in this day in age when our attention spans are taxed to the limit. Our minds are notorious at wandering and moving from thought-to-thought; it's hard sometimes to string just a few seconds of focused attention together.
And indeed, notions that meditation is simply about relaxation or cleansing the mind of allthoughts are common misconceptions. Meditation is hard work and it takes a lot of practice to get better. The more you do it, the easier it becomes to stay focused. Progress can be measured by how long a single thought can be focused upon without straying.
Remarkably, for something so exceedingly simple, it can produce an astounding number of health benefits. Eager to learn more, a growing number of scientists are looking into the cognitive effects of meditation, including studies on Buddhist monks. And they're learning that meditation is a very powerful tool indeed.
As a quick aside, most of the studies cited here consider the benefits of focused attention. That's not to suggest that other practices, like open attention, can't yield positive results as well.
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Buddhists have meditated for literally thousands of years. They're familiar with its positive effects, including the way it works to instill the inner strength and insight required for the overarching spiritual practice; meditation, or "sitting," is to Buddhist monks what prayer is to Christians. But instead of trying to hack into the mind of God, Buddhists are trying to hack into their own mind to harness it under control.
But it has only been in recent times that neuroscientists have been able to peer directly into the brain to see what's going on. The advent of fMRIs and other brain scanning techniques have largely paved the way.
For example, neuroscientists observing MRI scans have learned that meditation strengthens the brain by reinforcing the connections between brain cells. A 2012 study showed that people who meditate exhibit higher levels of gyrification — the "folding" of the cerebral cortex as a result of growth, which in turn may allow the brain to process information faster. Though the research did not prove this directly, scientists suspect that gyrification is responsible for making the brain better at processing information, making decisions, forming memories, and improving attention.
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Sneaky robot uses background noise to mask its presence
We have robots that walk, fly, swim, and even run, and now we have a robot that can expertly "sneak." Researchers at the CSIRO Autonomous Systems Laboratory in Australia have developed a new kind of stealthy robot that only moves when background noises will serve to mask its presence.
Equipped with a camera, laser scanner, laptop computer, and a sound pressure level meter, the as yet unnamed four-wheel robot has the ability to predict how long background sounds like cell phones, vehicles, and animal calls will persist, allowing it to time its own movements and sound emissions for maximum stealth.
A paper describing the development of the robot, authored by Matthew Dunbabin and Ashley Tews, explains the reasoning behind its creation:
"As real robots have non-negligible acoustic signatures and operate in large unmapped environments, a methodology to combine visual and acoustic stealth is required… We have demonstrated and evaluated a method that estimates the robot's acoustic signature in real-time in addition to reliably predicting its contribution to the sound pressure level observed at the target."
The robot can apply its sound calculations to subjects up to 160 feet away, and even has the ability to map terrain for shadowed areas best for hiding. The paper also claims that future versions of the robot will incorporate gaze detection to help it to avoid visual discovery, and we'll leave it up to you to imagine where you won't see (or hear) this robot show up in the entirely too near future.
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TORRINGTON — Three college-bound students picked up some spending money for the next stage of their educations courtesy of AMVETS Post 24 on Wednesday.
Post 24 presented its annual $500 scholarships to Austin Kelson, a graduate of Torrington High School, and Jessica Fretto and Luke Pepper, graduates of Oliver Wolcott Technical School.
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