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03/03/2010 04:49 PM
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Testimony — oversight challenges in the medicare prescription drug program
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Oversight Challenges In The Medicare Prescription Drug Program (PDF; 903 KB)
Source: U.S. Health & Human Services Administration, Office of Inspector General
Testimony of Robert Vito, Regional Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, on Oversight Challenges In The Medicare Prescription Drug Program (Source: Docuticker)
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03/03/2010 04:00 PM
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A week without books
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She reads in bed, on the bus, while cooking dinner. So what happened when she went cold turkey?Going to the loo without a book! It is a profound shock. Instead of reading, I stare at the walls and notice that there are still two empty nails on which I meant – a year ago – to hang pictures. Also, I notice the dust on the floor and the cobwebs on the ceiling. I sense that I will be doing a lot more housework than usual this week.Going to bed is bizarre. If there is one time of day I always, always read, it is in bed before I go to sleep. On the first night of my week without books, I download Being Human on the iPlayer and give my nail polish some quality attention. But when the programme finishes and I try to shut my eyes, my head is buzzing. My eyes keep bouncing open again. Boing. Boing. Boing.I decided to try giving up books for a week because I have come to the point where I wonder if they are holding me back. On the whole, the world seems to think that books are always a good thing, that you can never get too much of them. People admit to being bookworms in the same way they admit to being "just too tidy really", or "a bit of a workaholic". But if you are a compulsive reader like me, who reads walking down the road, and while she's making her children's dinner, and on the loo and in the bath and in bed and on the bus, and at every other possible second of the day, and if what you're reading is mostly . . . well . . . pulp, then sometimes you end up feeling as if books are eating you up instead of the other way round. Sure, there's a smattering of literature and high art-type stuff in there, but mostly it is whatever I have fished off the shelf at my nearest Oxfam that morning – detective stories, romances, horror, sci fi . . . any kind of fiction that I can gulp down in large enough, quick enough bites.I am usually reading three, sometimes four books, with a pile of books waiting in case I run out. ...
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03/03/2010 12:08 PM
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Stat!ref – full text medical resources at your fingertips!
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STAT!Ref includes online medical books that contain everything from consumer health and trauma surgery to cardiovascular diseases and neuroanatomy. Find answers about diagnosis, treatments, and drug interactions – STAT!
MIT has access to the following STAT!Ref e-books:
AAFP Conditions A to Z
ACP Medicine
AHFS Drug Information
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR 2000)
Functional Neuroanatomy
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
Hurst’s the Heart
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Review of Natural Products
Schwartz’s Principle of Surgery
Stedman’s Medical Dictionary
Vaughan & Asbury’s General Ophthalmology
STAT!Ref allows only one MIT user at a time, so if you can’t get in, try again in a few minutes.
Interested in e-books in other fields? Try our E-books guide.
For more information, contact Courtney Crummett, Bioinformatics and Biosciences Librarian. (Source: MIT Libraries News)
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03/03/2010 05:38 AM
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Springer to publish the european journal of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics
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"Starting in 2010, Springer will publish the European Journal of Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics. The journal was founded in 1975 by the late Professor Achille Benakis at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and through the years gathered a loyal community of authors and readers. All aspects of drug delivery and bioavailability are covered in the journal, which was previously published by the Swiss publisher Médecine & Hygiène" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
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03/02/2010 11:00 PM
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Fda calls on food companies to correct labeling violations; fda commissioner issues an open letter to the industry
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News release: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has notified 17 food manufacturers that the labeling for 22 of their... (Source: beSpacific)
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03/02/2010 11:16 AM
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Trafficking throughout afghanistan continues to be a big challenge, 2010 international narcotics control strategy report
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Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control
Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes
The 2010 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress that describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2009. Volume 1 covers drug and chemical control activities. Volume 2 covers money laundering and financial crimes.
The report highlights progress in Afghanistan’s drug smuggling arena. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) have been reshaping assistance programs in Afghanistan over the course of the last year to move away from a focus on eradication (especially by outsiders), and to focus more on an interdiction and institution-building effort, as well as an effort to develop more fully alternative livelihoods with a very strong emphasis on agriculture and on subsistence agriculture.
In addressing the widespread drug smuggling at the border with Mexico, the DEA is collaborating on a cooperation program that provides equipment and training for Mexican border authorities and Mexican law enforcement authorities so that they can better detect bulk cash smuggling. Drug cartel operations in Mexico lead to greater spillover affects not only at the border but more broadly into the United States and some of the border communities can be not nearly as affected as some of the more inland areas.
read more (Source: HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront)
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03/01/2010 12:01 PM
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Herbal medicines can be lethal, pathologist warns
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A paper by Professor Roger Byard published in the US-based Journal of Forensic Sciences outlines the highly toxic nature of many herbal products and substances, which a large percentage of users around the world mistakenly believe are safe. (The article has not yet been added to the OhioLINK Web page for this journal). Some Asian manufactured herbal products were found to contain potentially lethal substances as arsenic, mercury, and lead.However, even unadulterated herbs can also produce serious side effects as number liver, renal and cardiac failure, strokes, movement disorders, muscle weakness and seizures. They also can have devastating effects when mixed with standard drugs. For example, Often gingko and garlic increase the risk of bleeding with anticoagulants.
Related Library Resources
**PubMed subject searches include the subheadings adverse effects
For example, search results for Garlic/adverse effects may be found here.
**Micromedex [limited to the HSC campus] allows one to search for drug interactions among multiple entered items. Many herbal ingredients are listed.
**Access Pharmacy Drug Monographs [limited to UT campuses, off campus to UT affiliates] have sections labeled Interactions, which include herbal products. Unfortunately there is no interface to enter substances to check for interactions.
**Drug Information Portal links to information on nearly 18,000 drugs and gives citations/summaries from medical and toxicological articles. Many articles are freely available to UT affiliates and those on the UT campuses.
And especially for consumers…
** Drug Digest has a check interactions tab to search for potential interactions between drugs. Please note the disclaimer, it is not complete or necessarily up to date.
**Drugs, Supplements and Herbal Information provides information from a variety of trusted resources. It also has links to additional resources. ...
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02/28/2010 11:00 PM
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Update from the google health team
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As we exhibit at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) trade show this year in Atlanta, we want to share with you some of our latest thinking. Google Health has been on the market for a little over two years, and in that time we have seen a growing understanding of the value of consumers being able to own, use, manage and share their medical data online with whomever they choose. While companies like ours work to build technologies like Google Health to make this a reality, we've also seen growing support from the U.S. Government. President Obama has included incentives for doctors to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) in the the American Recovery and Re-Investment Act of 2009 (AARA), and in recent months there have also been a series of Health IT provisions around "Meaningful Use" and EHR Certification all of which should help empower consumers with access to their own information. (Read our recent op-ed for more info about this topic.)At Google, we understand that changes in the health care industry take time and persistence, including health IT. We have been steadily analyzing feedback from our user surveys and field studies to help make Google Health more useful and relevant to a broad set of consumers on a daily basis. People have been telling us they want more tools to personalize, customize and track their own medical information. These are directions we're certainly exploring, and if you stop by our booth this week at HIMSS you can see a demo of what we're working on.While we work to refine the Google Health product, we also continue to pursue integration agreements with providers to make it even easier for people to access their own medical information. We've learned over these past two years that getting a current and past medication history assembled and ready in case of emergencies is one of the strongest value propositions for using an online Personal Health Record (PHR). ...
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02/28/2010 06:05 PM
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Sharon osbourne on politics, literature - and life with ozzy
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She doesn't want to be Charles Dickens, so she's modelling herself on Barbara CartlandSharon Osbourne will be two hours late for her interview. A photo shoot is overrunning says her marvellously named assistant, Silvana Arena. As we enter the Osbourne mansion in Hidden Hills, a gated estate off Interstate 101 above Los Angeles, there is a fight going on unchecked in the hall. Two leettle dourgues from Osbourne's vast collection of over-groomed life forms are doing snarly battle, possibly for mastery of the pile of poo that lies mid-floor.In the living room the world's largest television is pumping out the All-American Shouting Channel. Ozzy Osbourne is in residence, sprawled on a vast sofa like a negligent emperor with that benign-but-bewildered look that impressionist Jon Culshaw nailed so well.Silvana parks me on a sofa in her office and swivels back to work at her desk. Which local sushi takeout joint, she asks down the phone, is the one that Sharon hates and which is the one she loves? Tough gig.While I wait, the Osbournes' staff are at my disposal. A nice Geordie assistant brings his compatriot a proper pot of tea and a plate of biscuits. Silvana sweetly supplies bowls of low-fat cheese puffs called Pirate Booty. I start to nod off.Yapping wakes me up. Sharon Osbourne has sidled on to the neighbouring sofa and the leettle dourgues are paying obeisance. Maybe she's been talking for a while, because we seem to be mid-conversation. "The grinning twat – he needs to be tarred and feathered that motherfucker. And she's a fucking motherfucker too," she says. Osbourne proves so implacably foul-mouthed and so gamely broad-ranging in her hatreds during the interview that she could be talking about anybody – Brangelina, Bennifer, SuBo or Simon Cowell. But no, she's talking about Tony Blair and, quite probably, Cherie Booth.She's been watching Blair give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry. ...
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02/28/2010 10:26 AM
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Health, united states, 2009
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Health, United States, 2009
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (National Center for Health Statistics)
From press release:
The use of medical technology in the United States increased dramatically between 1996 and 2006, according to “Health, United States, 2009,” the federal government’s 33rd annual report to the President and Congress on the health of all Americans.
The report was prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics from data gathered by state and federal health agencies and through ongoing national surveys.
This year’s edition features a special section on medical technology, and finds that the rate of magnetic resonance imaging, known as MRI, and computed and positron emission tomography or CT/PET scans, ordered or provided, tripled between 1996 and 2007.
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The full report contains 150 data tables in addition to the special feature on medical technology. The tables cover the spectrum of health topics, serving as a comprehensive snapshot of the nation’s health.
Life expectancy at birth increased more for the black than for the white population between 1990 and 2007, thereby narrowing the gap in life expectancy between these two racial groups. Overall U.S. life expectancy in 2007 was 77.9 years.
In 2007, 20 percent of U.S. adults were current cigarette smokers, a slight decrease from 21 percent in the previous three years. Men were more likely to be current cigarette smokers than women (22 percent vs. 17 percent).
In 2005-2006, 30 percent of adults often or almost always had trouble sleeping in the past month.
In 2007, 20 percent of adults 18 years and over had at least one emergency department visit in the past year, and 7 percent had two or more visits. ...
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02/27/2010 06:07 PM
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Reality hunger by david shields | book review
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Sean O'Hagan is intrigued by a bold book that rails against the confines of traditional fictionDavid Shields is bored by the novel. As a form, he argues, it tends to be too hidebound by plot, too traditional and old-fashioned to reflect the speed of 21st-century culture. He is particularly bored by the well-wrought, beautifully written literary novel, as exemplified by Ian McEwan's Atonement and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections."I read these books and my overwhelming feeling is, you've got to be kidding," he told the Observer recently. "They strike me as antediluvian texts that are essentially still working in the Flaubertian novel mode. In no way do they convey what if feels like to live in the 21st century. Like most novels, they are essentially works of nostalgic entertainment."What Shields wants essentially is less plot – less fictionalising, in fact – and more reality in all its messy "truthiness". He sees himself at the vanguard of a still unfocused literary movement that celebrates the "raw", the "seemingly unprocessed, unfiltered, uncensored and unprofessional". One wonders, at times, if he has heard of the blogosphere.Reality Hunger, though, is not just a manifesto for a new kind of genre-blurring 21st-century prose, it is also a series of short, sharp provocations: 617 in all, arranged under alphabetical, rather than numerical, chapters. Chapter a is entitled "overture"; chapter b, "mimesis"; chapter c, "books for people who find television too slow". You get the picture. Or maybe not. For all its supposed 21st-century cut and thrust, Reality Hunger reeks of a certain kind of endlessly referential, post-modernist lit-crit theory from the 1980s that briefly made Barthes and Baudrillard fashionable names to drop whether or not one had read their books.Which is a shame, because there is much here that is thought-provoking. ...
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02/27/2010 02:41 PM
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Understanding illicit drug markets, supply-reduction efforts, and drug-related crime in the european union
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Understanding illicit drug markets, supply-reduction efforts, and drug-related crime in the European Union
Source: RAND Corporation
The European Drugs Strategy concentrates on demand reduction and supply reduction through international cooperation and research, information and evaluation. However, efforts to provide insight in the different aspects of Europe’s illicit drug problems have largely focused on indicators developed to assess demand-side strategies. The development of measures capturing dimensions of the supply of different illicit substances is an emerging field in the EU. To advance these efforts, the European Commission DG Justice, Freedom and Security commissioned a study to recommend indicators for improving the understanding of illicit drug markets, supply reduction efforts, and drug-related crime in the EU. In this study we reviewed literature and RAND’s previous work in this area, and we gathered insights from European experts and policymakers.
Based on these insights and a conceptual framework for thinking about drug markets, we develop a number of immediate-term, near-term, and long-term recommendations. These recommendations will improve both Member States’ and the European Commission’s ability to monitor drug markets and drug-related crime as well as initiate analyses regarding the effectiveness of supply reduction strategies.
+ Summary (PDF; 248 KB)
+ Full Document (PDF; 2.1 MB) (Source: Docuticker)
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02/26/2010 01:30 PM
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The epistolary duelling of anna ford and martin amis | kathryn hughes
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Literary history is littered with old friends like Anna Ford and Martin Amis feuding by letterYou have only to take a quick look at the epic history of literary epistolary feuds to realise that the "literary" bit is nearly always a fig leaf to cover deeper and more tender hurts. Certainly that's the case with the current Anna Ford v Martin Amis spat. In her opening salvo, published a week ago in this newspaper, Ford didn't even pretend that she had an urgent desire to share her thoughts on Amis's handling of metaphor or his narrative voice. No, what Anna really wanted to do was tell the world that Mart is a sod.Even if you're a saint – literally – that same base desire to rubbish the other person's person, rather than his writing, is always there. In the 5th century Saint Jerome conducted epistolary ding-dongs with virtually anyone who could hold a quill, including other saints such as Augustine.While Jerome's usual modus operandi was to pick a fight over something knotty like the Pelagian dispute, iIt soon became clear that this was merely an excuse for expressing his ever-bubbling personal venom. In the end the bad-tempered holy man found himself briefly excommunicated for being pointlessly rude – the medieval Christian version of time out on the naughty step.Still, for an epistolary feud to have real heat it needs to be stoked by the smouldering fires of former friendship. In the 1760s, those two princes of the Enlightenment, David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, struck up a relationship built on such intense mutual admiration that you could almost guarantee it would go wrong. Hume helped Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose recent publication of the revolutionary Social Contract had made him persona non grata on the continent, find safe haven in Britain. So he was naturally horrified when Rousseau turned like a snarling bear and accused his saviour of plotting against him. ...
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02/26/2010 10:57 AM
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Fda announces new safety plan for agents used to treat chemotherapy-related anemia
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FDA Announces New Safety Plan for Agents Used to Treat Chemotherapy-Related Anemia
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a risk management program to inform healthcare providers and their patients about the risks of a class of drugs called Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESAs). For patients with cancer, the program is also designed to help ensure the appropriate administration of these drugs, which they receive to treat anemia that can occur as a result of chemotherapy.
ESAs, which include epoetin alfa (marketed as Procrit and Epogen) and darbepoetin alfa (marketed as Aranesp), are manufactured by Amgen Inc. ESAs are forms of the human protein erythropoietin, which stimulates bone marrow to make red blood cells.
In April 2008, FDA required Amgen Inc. to establish this risk management program based on studies that found that ESAs caused tumors to grow faster and resulted in earlier deaths in some cancer patients.
Amgen’s risk management program, referred to as a REMS or Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, requires health care professionals to provide their patients receiving an ESA with a Medication Guide that contains information for patients on how to safely use a drug.
In addition, the company’s APPRISE (Assisting Providers and Cancer Patients with Risk Information for the Safe Use of ESAs) program, which is part of the REMS, requires specific training and certification of health care professionals who administer chemotherapy to patients with cancer and counseling of their patients. It does not apply to patients being treated with an ESA for anemia due to other circumstances.
+ Drug Safety Communication: Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESAs): Procrit, Epogen and Aranesp
+ Office of Oncology Drug Products (OODP) (Source: Docuticker)
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02/26/2010 08:24 AM
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Fda’s center for veterinary medicine announces animal health twitter account
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CVM Announces Animal Health Twitter Account
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) announced today the launch of their Animal Health Twitter account.
Twitter is a free social media marketing tool that will allow CVM to connect and keep in touch with our user base through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What’s happening in the world of CVM and animal health?
+ FDA Animal Health Twitter
Source: USDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (Source: ResourceShelf)
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02/26/2010 05:19 AM
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Information officer (technician)
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Employer: Australian Drug Foundation [closing date: 10 March 2010] (Source: ALIAnet: LIS jobs)
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02/25/2010 02:42 PM
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Unodc report on international trafficking
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Crime and Instability: Case Studies of Transnational Threats
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) recently released this report that addresses illegal trafficking throughout the world. "This report looks at the relationship between organized crime and instability: how illicit commodities usually originate in trouble spots, are then trafficked through vulnerable regions, to affluent markets. It focuses in particular on the impact of drug flows (cocaine and heroin), as well as piracy around the Horn of Africa, and the impact of minerals smuggling on Central Africa.the peace. By better understanding the impact of crime on security (and vice versa), we will be better equipped to break the vicious circle, and build a safer world."
The origin of drugs that flow into the United States is discussed in detail. According to the report: "Today, cocaine destined for the United States and Canada is typically shipped from Colombia to Central America and Mexico by sea and then onwards by land. To reach Europe, it often transits the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, subsequently referred to as Venezuela, and proceeds through the Caribbean by sea, sometimes transiting West Africa on its way to Europe. Shipments to Europe originate primarily in Colombia, but also from Peru and Bolivia. Bolivia has also recently emerged as a source of cheap cocaine base products smuggled to the Southern Cone, a disturbing instance of drug trafficking between developing countries."
read more (Source: HSDL Weblog - On the HomeFront)
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02/24/2010 11:00 PM
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Skills you need to find a job
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One of my temp jobs I had in 1976 (see below) was with JTPA (successor to CETA)--Ohio Senior Training and Employment Program (STEPS). I worked with a wonderful group of women in an efficiently run state agency. I wrote publications, planned workshops, travelled throughout the state, and wrote speeches for the head of another government agency. I learned so much on that job, not the least of which was job hunting skills (because I had to write about them and teach them in workshops not because I used them). However, I got the job in aerobics class overhearing my instructor talking about it--and that's how most jobs are found, "networking." Still, there are other important points I learned, and have updated to account for new technology.1) If you're unemployed, your job is to find a job. Spend 40 hours a week researching, interviewing, networking, updating skills, writing thank you notes, and knocking on doors. If you do internet social networking about job hunting, be careful what you say. Never, never bad mouth your previous employer or boss.2) Dress appropriately for the interview (this might take some research if you are 18-25). If you love that big hair look from the 80s, you might want to reconsider what it says about you. Cut the gray pony tail if you're a guy.3) Develop a fabulous resume, brief is best. Use a professional or have someone proof it for you. Anything you have on the internet may speak louder than your resume, so better check that out. Read requirements carefully! Some companies don't want paper; some don't want attachments.4) All jobs need good oral and written communication skills. If you've been text messaging for 4 years, you might need a brush up on how to spell "you" and "are." 5) Eye contact, body language, posture, good grammar--they say more about you than you know. Video tape yourself--watch for all those unneccesary uhs, now, hmmm, etc. It's a form of stuttering and doesn't make a good impression. ...
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02/24/2010 11:00 PM
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International narcotics control board 2009 annual report
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The International Narcotics Control Board 2009 Annual Report highlights the growing problem of prescription drug abuse, alarming new trends in the manufacture of drugs and prevention of drug abuse. The INCB Annual Report is one of the flagship publications produced every year to address the world dr... (Source: UN Pulse | A Service/Blog of the United Nations Library)
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02/24/2010 01:43 PM
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The training not given…
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A post by Cynthia Lambert
In the past I have blogged about what surprised me when I first came to libraries. Many people commented on the drunken patron—an unexpected customer service challenge if ever there was one. One thing I expected, but three years later still have no idea how to deal with, are the mentally ill or chemically altered patrons. I am not alone.
When I get together socially with librarians both new and seasoned, often the talk of customer service turns into laments about the homeless, the mentally ill, drug addicts, and the unwashed. No one it seems has any idea how to properly help and/or deal with these people. Why is that?
A March, 2009 article in Public Libraries gives a list of 10 tips for dealing with the mentally ill, all of which suggest training. In library school—only one class, a class on communication, even touched on the issue of mentally ill people at the library. Of the four libraries I have worked in, not one gave me training, despite mentally ill, homeless, and drug addicted patrons causing problems—some small, some very significant. In fact, at one, most of the staff simply will not deal with the issue. Rules in place against sleeping or pornography are ignored and management explicitly stated that maybe it is best to just let them sleep unless another patron complains.
The San Francisco Public Library is trying something new to deal with the problem. They have hired a full-time social worker. While I think that is fantastic, the reality is that very few libraries have the money to hire adequate library staff these days, let alone getting into the business of health care. So what is there for the rest of us?
Other than a handful of articles, I have found no indication of a training program in place to help library staff identify and deal with the mentally ill or drug addicted. I am sure there are many programs out there, I simply cannot find them. ...
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02/24/2010 07:51 AM
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Social workers @ your library
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Important story from the Associated Press about the San Francisco Public Library hiring a social worker to help homeless library patrons.
Every day, when the main library opens, John Banks is waiting to get inside. He finds a spot and stays until closing time. Then his wheelchair takes him back to the bus terminal where he spends his nights.
Like many homeless public library patrons, all Banks wants is a clean, safe place to sit in peace. He does not want to talk to anyone. He does not want anyone to talk to him. The day he decides he wants help, he knows what to do: ask for the library's social worker.
The main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, where hundreds of homeless people spend every day, is the first in the country to keep a full-time social worker on hand, according to the American Library Association.
Cities across the country are trying different approaches to deal with patrons who use bathroom sinks as showers or toilet stalls as drug dens. In Philadelphia and San Francisco, libraries have hired homeless patrons to work as bathroom attendants who guide others to drop-in centers or churches where they can bathe. (Source: LISNews.org)
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02/24/2010 07:51 AM
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Social workers @ your library
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Important story from the Associated Press about the San Francisco Public Library hiring a social worker to help homeless library patrons.
Every day, when the main library opens, John Banks is waiting to get inside. He finds a spot and stays until closing time. Then his wheelchair takes him back to the bus terminal where he spends his nights.
Like many homeless public library patrons, all Banks wants is a clean, safe place to sit in peace. He does not want to talk to anyone. He does not want anyone to talk to him. The day he decides he wants help, he knows what to do: ask for the library's social worker.
The main branch of the San Francisco Public Library, where hundreds of homeless people spend every day, is the first in the country to keep a full-time social worker on hand, according to the American Library Association.
Cities across the country are trying different approaches to deal with patrons who use bathroom sinks as showers or toilet stalls as drug dens. In Philadelphia and San Francisco, libraries have hired homeless patrons to work as bathroom attendants who guide others to drop-in centers or churches where they can bathe. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News)
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02/23/2010 11:00 PM
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Opposing viewpoints database
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We’ve added a new database, Opposing Viewpoints. This is a great resource for students in grades 6 to college who need to do reports on current events or controversial issues, such as Drug Abuse or Pollution. The database provides different perspectives on the issues from a wide variety of sources including pro and con viewpoint articles, 140 full-text magazines, academic journals, newspapers, primary source documents, statistics, multimedia, web sites, and more.This is one of the Gale databases, so it can be accessed in and outside the library both from the Gale Databases General link, and it also has its own link on the Online Resources page. While the interface is different from the other Gale databases, it should be easy to figure out and use. You can always call your branch's reference desk for more information or assistance. (Source: ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog)
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02/22/2010 11:00 PM
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I really need to talk to my doctor
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This is the third time I have been on the diabetes drug Avandia. I need to talk to Dr Nesbitt about trying Actos instead, due to concerns of heart damage from Avandia. Experts have told diabetics not to stop taking the drug without a doctor's okay, but it really looks like the drug has dangerous side effects. Personally, I don't want to have a heart attack because of something that was supposed to help me. Diabetics are already at risk for heart problems; they don't need anything to help push them along. I think they should pull it from the market. Of course, there's a lot of money and politics in play here, so we'll see how it turns out.
Research Ties Diabetes Drug to Heart Woes
Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market.
The reports, obtained by The New York Times, say that if every diabetic now taking Avandia were instead given a similar pill named Actos, about 500 heart attacks and 300 cases of heart failure would be averted every month because Avandia can hurt the heart. Avandia, intended to treat Type 2 diabetes, is known as rosiglitazone and was linked to 304 deaths during the third quarter of 2009.
“Rosiglitazone should be removed from the market,” one report, by Dr. David Graham and Dr. Kate Gelperin of the Food and Drug Administration, concludes. Both authors recommended that Avandia be withdrawn.
U.S.: Controversial diabetes drug harms heart: Internal F.D.A. reports are part of fierce debate over Avandia
GSK to face FDA meeting over Avandia safety record
Au Revoir, Avandia? FDA Reviewers Urge Agency to Pull Drug: Doctors, Diabetes Experts Split on Whether Drug Should Be Eliminated
Health Buzz: FDA Report Advises Avandia Be Pulled From the Market (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind)
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02/22/2010 03:00 PM
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61 hours by lee child | digested read
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Bantam, £18.99Five minutes to three. Exactly 61 hours and 386 pages before it happened. The lawyer dialled a secret number. A thousand miles south in Mexico, the Brazilian comedy villain put down the phone and stood up to his full height of 4ft 7in. In elevator heels. Two henchmen smirked. "No one calls me a comedy villain," Plato yelled, sawing off their legs. "Now call Russia."Jack Reacher was going nowhere. Coming from nowhere. Travelling the highway of maverick existential violence. The coach skidded on ice before coming to a halt in a ditch. Outside it was -40C. Cold. Real cold. The kind of cold that was colder than cold. It was exactly 56 hours and 331 pages before it happened.The police took them 12 miles into Bolton. A small town in the Dakota wilderness. "I'm not the guy you're waiting for," Reacher said to a young cop named Peterson. "How do you know we're waiting for anyone?" Peterson asked. "It's my job," Reacher replied. The thermometer hit -70C. A shout from outside. "Two biker dudes have got Chief Holland pinned down." Reacher strode out. "I wouldn't," he warned. The bikers didn't listen. Mistake. Big mistake. Their necks snapped before they could blink. "Who are you?" Holland asked. "I'm the Son of a Reacher Man," Reacher said. Oh yes he was. It was exactly 47 hours and 267 pages before it happened.Plato strapped on his stilts. No one would call him a comedy villain now. "Have the lawyer and the witness whacked," he shouted. "And make sure we double-cross the Russians?" It was exactly 39 hours and 225 pages before it happened.The temperature fell to -217C. No one in Bolton moved. Except Reacher. "I can help," he said. "The town's scared." "The town's changed since the prison was built and the bikers moved into a mysterious building on the edge of town," Holland and Peterson said. ...
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02/22/2010 09:50 AM
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New funding announcements: week of feb. 22, 2010
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The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.
Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care (R21/R33) – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
ARRA OS: Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition: Enhanced State Data for Analysis and Tracking of Comparative Effectiveness Impact: Improved Clinical Content and Race-Ethnicity Data (R01) – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Era of Hope Scholar Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Idea Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Innovator Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Inter-Institutional Training Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Multi-Team Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) Predoctoral Traineeship Award – U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
NIDCD Research on Accessible and Affordable Hearing Health Care (R24) – National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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02/21/2010 11:00 PM
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What's going on?
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It is not really surprising that crime fiction would be a genre appealing to otherwise "serious" novelists attempting to work with the conventions of a popular form adapted to the purposes of their own ostensibly non-genre work. Crime fiction portrays a world perpetually in extremis, and in the detective novel variant it emphasizes a process of discovery and revelation that in some ways models the very structure of narrative itself. (Although perhaps the detective is more like the literary critic, looking for the clues that will provide meaning, filling in the gaps and making the speculative leaps that will add up to a coherent interpretation of things.) It acts as a kind of palimpsest over which the literary writer might inscribe his/her own variations on "criminal" behavior and its sources in unruly human impulses.
Within the last year, both Denis Johnson and Thomas Pynchon, each certifiably qualified to be regarded as serious novelists, have published novels that imitate or burlesque crime fiction, Johnson's Nobody Move and Pynchon's Inherent Vice. Although Johnson's book seems the most thoroughly to be an "imitation" of the genre, if not an outright attempt to produce a plausible crime novel, the inanity of the title suggests we might want to take it instead as burlesque, while Inherent Vice might ultimately be regarded as an affectionate homage to the detective novel, even though it is marked by Pynchon's signature brand of wacky humor and seems to be having fun with the detective novel's propensity to spiral off into episodic pieces that don't always coherently join back up with the narrative whole. Ultimately Pynchon's idiosyncratic appropriation of the "novel of detection" is much more satisfying than Johnson's straight-faced mimicry of the "noir" crime story. ...
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02/21/2010 11:00 PM
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Baucus, grassley release finance committee report on diabetes drug avandia,
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News release: "Senator Max Baucus, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, and Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member, today released a... (Source: beSpacific)
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02/18/2010 08:57 PM
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Fda warns about serious side effects from maalox product mix-ups
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FDA Warns about Serious Side Effects from Maalox Product Mix-Ups
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned consumers about the potential for serious side effects from mistakenly using Maalox Total Relief instead of other Maalox products. The two products are intended for the relief of different symptoms and contain different active ingredients.
Maalox Total Relief is an upset stomach reliever and anti-diarrheal medication, while traditional Maalox liquid products Maalox Advanced Regular Strength and Maalox Advanced Maximum Strength are antacids. Both Maalox Total Relief and Maalox are made by Novartis Consumer Health Inc. (NCH) and are available without a prescription as over-the-counter liquid medications. The maker of Maalox brand products has agreed to change the name of Maalox Total Relief to one that does not include the word “Maalox” and will change the drug’s packaging to avoid further confusion.
+ FDA Drug Safety Communication: Product Confusion with Maalox Total Relief and Maalox Liquid Products (Source: Docuticker)
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02/18/2010 11:31 AM
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Our digital future: an interview with lori james of all romance ebooks
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As a book buyer, I have a keen interest in thriving bookstores. As a book reader, I have a keen interest in independent publishing and access to my books. And while I wait for traditional independent bookstores to transition to robust physical and online presences, I have enjoyed the emergence of digital booksellers, particularly All Romance Ebooks and its sister store, OmniLit.
Traditional PDF is the gateway drug to ebooks.
All Romance Ebooks was founded in 2006 by Barb Perfetti and Lori James. The original site, All Romance, focuses on romance novels while OmniLit sells general fiction and non-fiction. Both sites focus on what makes independent bookselling so valuable (with some modern twists, as you’ll see), and Lori James graciously succumbed to a few questions from me about her company, her customers, and her digital publishing wishlist.
Q: So, first, describe it. All Romance eBooks, OmniLit. What they are, how they fit together.
AllRomance.com is our specialty store and it primarily caters to the romance and erotica markets. OmniLit.com is a full service bookstore. Readers will find all types of fiction and non-fiction there, including all of the romance and erotica that we have at All Romance. Although they are branded differently, the two sites are integrated. Customers can access their account at either site using the same login and password and they share libraries.
Q: I’ve heard people say Amazon has cornered the ebook market, but, obviously, that’s not true. You are not only competing, but growing. Without revealing the secret sauce, what are some key ingredients?
I think in order to be successful in any industry you need to know your market, the community, and how to grow and maintain relationships. This is more than a business to us, it’s something we’re very passionate about.
Q: As a longtime ebook consumer, all I want is the ability to read the book I’ve just purchased. ...
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02/17/2010 09:32 AM
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Fda unveils initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical imaging
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FDA Unveils Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types of medical imaging procedures: computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine studies, and fluoroscopy. These procedures are the greatest contributors to total radiation exposure within the U.S. population and use much higher radiation doses than other radiographic procedures, such as standard X-rays, dental X-rays, and mammography.
CT, nuclear medicine, and fluoroscopic imaging have led to early diagnosis of disease, improved treatment planning, and image-guided therapies that help save lives every day. The FDA continues to support a strong dialogue between patients and physicians over the medical necessity and risk associated with these types of imaging studies.
However, like all medical procedures, CT, nuclear medicine, and fluoroscopy pose risks. These types of imaging exams expose patients to ionizing radiation, a type of radiation that can increase a person’s lifetime cancer risk. Accidental exposure to very high amounts of radiation also can cause injuries, such as skin burns, hair loss and cataracts. Health care decisions made by patients and their physicians should include discussions of the medical need and associated risks for each procedure.
+ Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging (Source: Docuticker)
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02/16/2010 10:20 PM
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Adult services supervisor (topeka & shawnee county public library)
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Adult Services Supervisor (Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas)
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02/16/2010 09:54 AM
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Crs — central asia: regional developments and implications for u.s. interests
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Central Asia: Regional Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests (PDF; 526 KB)
Source: Congressional Research Service (via OpenCRS)
U.S. policy toward the Central Asian states has emphasized maximizing their assistance in U.S. and NATO stabilization efforts in Afghanistan and in helping them combat terrorism, proliferation, and arms and drug trafficking. Other U.S. objectives have included promoting free markets, democratization, human rights, energy development, and the forging of east-west and Central Asia-South Asia trade links. Such policies aim to help the states become what various U.S. Administrations have considered to be responsible members of the international community rather than to degenerate into xenophobic, extremist, and anti-Western regimes that contribute to wider regional conflict and instability.
Soon after the terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001, all the Central Asian “front- line” states offered overflight and other support for coalition anti-terrorism efforts in Afghanistan. Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan hosted coalition troops and provided access to airbases. In 2003, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan also endorsed coalition military action in Iraq. About two dozen Kazakhstani troops served in Iraq until late 2008. Uzbekistan rescinded U.S. basing rights in 2005 after the United States criticized the reported killing of civilians in the town of Andijon. In early 2009, Kyrgyzstan ordered a U.S. base in that country to close, allegedly because of Russian inducements and U.S. reluctance to meet Kyrgyz requests for greatly increased lease payments. An agreement on continued U.S. use of the “transit center” was reached in June 2009. In 2009, most of the regional states also agreed to become part of a Northern Distribution Route for the transport of U.S. and NATO military and related materials to Afghanistan.
Policymakers have tailored U.S. ...
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02/15/2010 11:00 PM
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I've never noticed it
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Stinky diabetes drug turns off patients: Medication's fishy smell may explain why many stop taking it, doctors say
The drug is metformin, also known as Glucophage and an ingredient in several combination drugs as well (I take it as Janumet, a combination of metformin and Januvia).
Of course, I don't have an extremely keen sense of smell. But there is one pill I really have trouble taking because of not just the smell of the medication itself, but how it makes me smell--guaifenesin, a drug that is used as an expectorant in such meds as Mucinex (and which was tried, at least, for fibromyalgia back in the day).
Anyway, there's this smell it has that invades all the mucous membranes of my body, and I really find it unpleasant. It also changes the smell and colour of urine. So when I take it (usually for a sinus infection) I try to keep it to a minimum. Back when my fibromyalgia pain was worse, I considered taking it regularly, but couldn't get past the smell. I'm glad I don't smell a fishy odour with metformin, though. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind)
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02/15/2010 11:00 PM
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It seems to really be a miracle drug
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Okay, you have to watch the stomach issue, and Reye's Syndrome in children and young adults, allergies, etc., so it's not without adverse effects, but...
Aspirin cuts death risk after breast cancer: Large study of nurses showed 50 percent lower risk cancer would spread
That's rather remarkable for a very common and cheap drug that's been around in its present form for over a hundred years. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind)
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02/14/2010 10:17 AM
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Slaw retweets 4-14/02/10
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Here’s a selection from the last week or so of tweets that I and others think might interest those who don’t use Twitter or who don’t follow the authors of these tweets. (Apologies for having lost a week somewhere.)
The source is shown by the @xxxx at the end of the retweet. If none appears, it’s because I’m the source.
If you are on Twitter and read or publish something that you think we should re-broadcast here, simply include the hash tag #slawca in the tweet or retweet. If you’ve published something on Slaw, there’s no need to use that hashtag on Twitter: all it does is bring to our attention things we might not otherwise have seen.
My next DUI defence from the files of zoology: drunk bats have no problem flying despite high alcohol levels! http://bit.ly/9ytK8w by @Prutschi
RT @CrimeTraveller: Should Charter rights apply to #Olympic anti-drug measures? http://bit.ly/bBO2oR by @olympic_lawyer and @m_j_wilson
Google legal US jobs RT @rhomsany: Looking for great people to join a great legal department. http://bit.ly/ddHVQc by @jacobglick
Windsor Law students' hiphop video on OCIs (via @PrecedentMag) by @jacobglick
RT @rleiter: “The 21st Century Law Library Conundrum: Free Law and Paying to Understand It” http://bit.ly/9zfRbv by @cearta
RT @richards1000 see my comment: RT @ronfriedmann: Craig Ball on law students, tech, EDD and minimum know-how http://bit.ly/8ZCm4n
RT @jordan_law21 RT @nipper LegalZoom sued for “unauthorized practice of law” in Missouri http://is.gd/82n3y | extremely interesting
RT @donna_seale: New at Donna Seale: No discrimination regarding termination of MB employee with criminal record http://is.gd/81Yar by @karensawatzky
RT @crossborderbio: New Post: If You License IP in Canada, You Need to Know About Recent BIA/CCAA Amendments http://ow.ly/16xjtI
RT @Prutschi: Oshawa courthouse begins searches of defence lawyers but not crowns! http://bit. ...
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02/13/2010 07:47 PM
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5 papers — lawyers, drugs & money: a prescription for antitrust enforcement in the pharmaceutical industry
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Lawyers, Drugs & Money: A Prescription for Antitrust Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Source: Rutgers Law Journal, Forthcoming, Lawyers, Drugs & Money Symposium, Lawyers, Drugs & Money: A Prescription for Antitrust Enforcement in the Pharmaceutical Industry (vi SSRN)
+ Of Vulnerable Monopolists?: Questionable Innovation in the Standard for Class Certification in Antitrust Cases
+ When Caught with Your Hand in the Cookie Jar…Argue Standing
+ Walker Process Proof: The Proper Prescription (Draft)
+ Solving the Drug Settlement Problem: The Legislative Approach
+ Applying Litigation Economics to Patent Settlements: Why Reverse Payments Should be Per Se Illegal (Source: Docuticker)
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02/12/2010 06:06 PM
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Ten of the best unfinished literary works
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Don Juan by Lord ByronByron composed new instalments of his great mock-epic poem whenever he was inspired or angry or at a loose end without his mistress. Young Juan, his sexually irresistible adventurer, travelled from Spain to a harem in Constantinople to the court of Catherine the Great and then to England, where he was left in mid-episode when the poet died.Woyzeck by Georg BüchnerThe title of Büchner's tragedy, whose protagonist is brutalised in the army and driven by jealousy to murder his mistress, was supplied by later editors. Büchner left four different versions of the play, all incomplete.Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellGaskell's novel was being published in the Cornhill Magazine when its author died in 1865. The journalist Frederick Greenwood stepped in to provide a conclusion. Some intriguing sexual entanglements in an English provincial town have to be unravelled, and Molly Gibson must surely be rewarded with marriage to the squire's deserving son, Roger.The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerIt may be a magnum opus of 24 tales plus prologues, but it was intended to be even larger. There are 27 pilgrims described in the General Prologue, and each is supposed to tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two on the way back. In the event Chaucer did not get a quarter of the way to his goal.The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles DickensIf you're going to leave a novel uncompleted, it is a good idea to announce it to be a "mystery". Dickens's final novel reached only the sixth of 12 instalments before its author died. Edwin Drood has disappeared, but how and why? We suppose that he has been murdered, and his guardian, the opium-taking John Jasper, looks a likely suspect . . .Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftWhen Wollstonecraft died, days after giving birth to the daughter who would be Mary Shelley, she left this uncompleted novel. ...
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02/11/2010 11:00 PM
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Law commission of new zealand issues paper on drug use
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The Law Commission of New Zealand has released an issues paper on Controlling and regulating drugs:"In 2007 the Associate Minister of Health invited the Law Commission to review the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975. This invitation arose partly in response to the debate over the reclassification of benzylpiperazine (BZP) as a Class C controlled drug. A number of significant problems, particularly over the adequacy of the legislative framework to deal with new psychoactive substances, were identified alongside longstanding concerns over the Act’s fitness for its purpose. As a consequence, the Government decided that a broad review of the Act was required. ""There is concern that the Misuse of Drugs Act no longer provides a coherent and effective legislative framework for responding to the misuse of psychoactive drugs. The Act has become complex. It is difficult to understand and navigate because it has been amended on numerous occasions and is supported by two free-standing but closely linked amendment Acts. All three must be read together to understand how drugs are controlled. There are also problems in the way the Misuse of Drugs regime interacts with other legislation such as the Medicines Act 1981 and the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996." "Most significantly, the Act’s policy framework appears to be out of step with current drug policy. Although it has been amended numerous times to reflect new developments in drug use, there is concern that the Act is now outdated and does not reflect current knowledge and understanding about drug use and related health, social and economic harms."The Commission will provide final recommendations to the New Zealand government in July. (Source: Library Boy)
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02/11/2010 11:00 PM
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Fda unveils initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from medical imaging
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News release: "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced an initiative to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure from three types... (Source: beSpacific)
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02/10/2010 09:33 AM
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New funding announcements: week of feb. 8, 2010
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The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.
Innovative Small Grants Program – Child Health Foundation
Research on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS (R01) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Research on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS (R03) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Research on Alcohol and HIV/AIDS (R21) – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Science of Behavior Change: Finding Mechanisms of Change in the Laboratory and the Field (R01) – National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Scientific Meetings for Creating Interdisciplinary Research Teams (R13) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute on Aging (NIA) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) – Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) (Source: News from the PRI Library and Data Archive)
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02/10/2010 04:45 AM
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Literature's most mind-blowing drugs
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Forget what the shady character down the pub is offering you, the most extreme psychedelic experiences come in book formNews of a documentary about the life of William Burroughs sent me scurrying – giant bug-style – back to his most celebrated work, Naked Lunch. Actually, it was more of a tentative crawl, because this was and remains the most difficult book I've ever encountered. Maybe I'm about to commit hara kiri on my intellectual/literary credibility – such as it is – but I must confess: I find Naked Lunch pretty much unreadable. And not in the Dan Brown/misery lit/sleb memoir sense: I could read those if I had to, I just wouldn't enjoy it. But Naked Lunch, my God … It's like someone swallowed the diaries of a hallucinating lunatic and vomited the resultant mess into your ears, stomach bile and all. While I can admit Burroughs was an important and seminal (pun probably not intended) writer, I can't read Naked Lunch without feeling queasy. And I can't finish it. Lord knows I've tried. I wrestled with it again just this week. But once more this slim volume defeated me, forcing me to pound the mat and yell, "No more!" I felt as exhausted and brain-fried as someone coming out the far end of a two-week bender, but without any of the pleasurable memories.Each time I get about halfway through, battling each disconnected sentence, all that disturbing weirdness, trying to mentally force some kind of shape onto these brilliant, demented ramblings, and then … I don't know. I run out of energy, maybe. Or interest. Or time. Or willingness to engage with the most grotesque and unsettling imagery this side of a prog rock album covers compendium. ...
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02/10/2010 04:19 AM
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Directory of open access journals - recently added titles
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PHENex Journal/Revue phénEPSHong Kong Journal of Emergency MedicineInternational Journal of Computer Science IssuesNew Zealand Journal of MathematicsResearch Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and TechnologyCaminhandoContemporary Educational TechnologyCurrent Research Journal of Social ScienceInternational Journal of Drug Development & ResearchJournal of CompetitivenessLinguamáticaPerner's ContactsRevista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa - RECADMCercles : Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde AnglophoneJournal für Philosophie und PsychiatrieBotanica SerbicaJournal of Plant DevelopmentPsychology & NeuroscienceRoman Legal TraditionSri Lanka Journal of Critical CareAnalele Universita(t,ii din Oradea, Seria Geografiedarkmatter Journal: In the Ruins of Imperial CultureGeoJournal of Tourism and GeositesJournal of the European Association for Health Information and LibrariesRCO - Revista de Contabilidade e OrganizaçõesRevista Româna( de Geografie PoliticaInternational Journal of Nonlinear Analysis and ApplicationsRevista da Micro e Pequena Empresa (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog)
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02/08/2010 09:20 PM
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Librarian ii, serials librarian
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State: Louisiana
Part-Time, 20 hours/week
SUMMARY: Under administrative supervision, this is responsible professional library work, which involves the application of professional library techniques and procedures in the Acquisitions Departments. Performs related and other work as required.
REQUIRED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Attainment of B.A. or B.S. from an accredited university/college; attainment of a graduate degree in Library and/or Information Science from an ALA-accredited university.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Good knowledge of professional library principles and practices.
Demonstrated ability to: (1) handle both routine operations and long-range planning; (2) establish and maintain effective working relationships with the public and other staff; (3) supervise, train, and evaluate support staff; (4) schedule department staff and work flow for maximum effectiveness; (5) communicate effectively, orally and in writing, to groups and individuals; (5) use application software. Knowledge and experience with integrated library systems, especially SIRSI, is preferred.
GENERAL DUTIES
Participates in work of the Acquisitions Departments; may be acting department head in the absence of the department head or other staff.
Training in the use of the Serials module in SIRSI for 2010.
Manages the periodical selection and bid process: Collects the periodical selection lists from branch libraries by due date, sorts, edits and completes into one list for bid contract. Updates periodicals bid contract and bid specifications. Prepares bid documents for the City Purchasing Department.
Manages the direct order periodicals (newspapers and specific non-bid materials). Arranges for invoices and confirmation of purchases.
Examines continuation titles to determine their status as a serial or monograph. Examines catalog records and determines changes for each title. ...
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02/08/2010 09:20 PM
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Librarian ii, cataloging librarian
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State: Louisiana
SUMMARY: Under administrative supervision, this is responsible professional library work, which involves the application of professional library techniques and procedures in the Cataloging Department. Performs related and other work as required.
REQUIRED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Attainment of B.A. or B.S. from an accredited university/college; attainment of a graduate degree in Library and/or Information Science from an ALA-accredited university.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES AND SKILLS
Good knowledge of professional library principles and practices.
Demonstrated ability to: (1) handle both routine operations and long-range planning; (2) establish and maintain effective working relationships with the public and other staff; (3) supervise, train, and evaluate support staff; (4) schedule department staff and work flow for maximum effectiveness; (5) communicate effectively, orally and in writing, to groups and individuals; (5) use application software. Knowledge and experience with integrated library systems, especially SIRSI, is preferred.
GENERAL DUTIES
Participates in work of the Cataloging Departments; may be acting department head in the absence of the department head or other staff.
Performs detailed, specialized work of copy and original cataloging of all formats of library materials; expected to use acquired specialized knowledge and skills in performance of library work.
Search all items against local database, verifying author, title, and other bibliographical information.
Identifies errors in database.
Responsible for organizing daily workflow.
Proofread output before making available to processors.
Coordinates with supervisor regarding major decisions
Performs other necessary duties as required.
PRESENT SCHEDULE [subject to change without notice]
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02/08/2010 09:01 PM
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This week’s biotech highlights
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I’m not sure whether it was the interception Peyton Manning threw last night, or my work earlier in the day trying to get my notebook to talk to my new router, but this week started looking like it was all about failed connections:
Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs), pharmaceutical companies and government payors have all expressed a shared goal: getting “the right treatment, to the right patient, the first time.” Doing so would improve care (personalized medicine) and decrease costs (c0mparative effectiveness). However, as industry players try to connect their employees, patients and customers with personalized treatments, they will sometimes be intercepted by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimation Act, other privacy legislation, or plain old public mistrust.
The EU has an established pathway for approving “biosimilars” — generic versions of complex biologic drugs, but with health reform stalled in the U.S., the biotech industry doesn’t know what will become of the biosimilars pathway that was set to be included in that legislation.
But, as the week went by (despite being reuinted with my old router), I realized that for every Peyton Manning there is a Tracy Porter:
PBM giant Medco aims to overcome misunderstanding and mistrust with its purchase of DNA Direct this week. DNA Direct uses its research on 2,000 available tests to help physicians, health insurance companies and patients understand how to use personalized medicine.
Teva is a winner even with health reform stalled, since it filed a full biologics license application (BLA) for Neupoval last year. The BLA asks the FDA to ignore the fact that Neupoval is a copy of Amgen’s already-approved drug Neupogen and treat Neupoval as if it was an entirely new drug. ...
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02/07/2010 11:00 PM
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The pelosi pole vault
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Nancy Pelosi has promised (Jan. 28) that the health care bill written by lobbyists and leftists that Americans don't want will be snuck into other bills."We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people for their own personal health and economic security and for the important role that it will play in reducing the deficit."This is not new--think of all the times social programs or other pork have been tacked onto troop funding. She's being honest about what she thinks of the American people for once in her life.Recently we've seen the EPA just go right around our elected Congress to do their own pole vaulting for Cap and Trade, a boondoggle that will probably give us a higher tax bill than "health care reform." I have difficulty reading the research articles in JAMA, but the social and political stuff isn't too hard. In the January 13 issue (Vol. 303, no. 2) there is an interesting article on "Human, animal, ecosystem health all key to curbing emerging infectious diseases" (p. 117-118). Yes, the 2006 spinach e coli outbreak can be tied to global climate change (OSU researchers found E coli in domestic and wild animals linked to unusual weather conditions contaminating irrigation systems). So at a November conference hosted by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council it was recommended that we must have new strategies locally, nationally and globally because our surveillance system is inadequate. ...
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02/06/2010 06:55 AM
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Lessons From the Battle Over D.A.R.E. (PDF: 5.3 MB)
Source: Bureau of Justice Assistance (DoJ)
Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1983, Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) has become one of the most well-known and widespread crime prevention programs in the country. D.A.R.E.’s model is relatively straightforward. Police officers are trained to lead educational sessions in local schools that are designed to help students resist peer pressure and live drug-free lives. The program’s reach is nothing short of remarkable: D.A.R.E. has been responsible for training hundreds of thousands of police officers and educating millions of children. The program has spread to 43 different countries. In recognition of this, every year for the last 18 years, four consecutive presidents have set aside a day in April as “National D.A.R.E. Day.”
Alongside this impressive track record, however, there exists a counter-narrative. This story is written not by the administrators of D.A.R.E. but by scholars who have studied the program. To date, there have been more than 30 evaluations of the program that have documented negligible long-term impacts on teen drug use. One intensive, six-year study even found that the program increased drug use among suburban teens by a small amount. These less-than-inspiring results have received widespread press coverage, including numerous newspaper articles and a February 21, 1997 segment on the NBC newsmagazine show Dateline.
Despite these setbacks, D.A.R.E. is alive and well, taught in about 75 percent of school districts across the country. Over 15,000 police officers participate as D.A.R.E instructors, providing educational sessions about drugs and drug abuse largely targeted at 5th and 6th graders. (Source: Docuticker)
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02/05/2010 11:00 PM
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Short takes & such: you really are what you eat, "intimidating" kids through auto-tuneless hip-hop, and hating on motherfucking snow...
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OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- I'm a creature of habit, have my daily routines, my rituals.I usually, for instance, get up at just before five in the morning. Unless I get to bed after 11 p.m., which like clockwork leads me to sleep in until about seven in the morning. I never skip breakfast, enjoy a nice, hot brush-and-soap shave every three days, bathe every day. And I cannot function without that first cup of stevia-laced black coffee and a cigarette - though, in late 2009, I did finally give up caffeine after nine in the morning.But perhaps the best example of my habitual nature?My diet.I now consume the same things for breakfast for months, sometimes years, at a time - cage-free eggs and turkey bacon, egg white omelets, oatmeal, or, sometimes, just fresh fruit and yogurt. For the rest of the day, most meals are simple and routine, kept mainly to what my body needs to sustain itself - lots of beans, baked yams, fresh greens, whole grains, and, yes, probably four to five times the amount of soy protein than your average American eats in a week.When I was in my early 20s, I was, in all honesty, a fat fucking slob. At my peak weight, a year or so after going cold turkey from my teenage hard drug habits, I weighed 285 pounds. A decade later I weigh two-thirds of that.I never went on a diet. I just changed what I liked to eat. And over time, the weight fell off.And not a month goes by without running into or hearing from somebody who remembers how big I used to be and commenting about the weight loss. Not as bad as it was a few years ago, but, yeah...It gets annoying.Here's the funny thing: most days, in terms of bulk, I suck down at least twice the bulk weight of what I did when I was younger. For dinner tonight I sucked down two bowls of salad, a rather large baked sweet potato, and a pint of Greek-strained yogurt.Over the course of a mere five years, I lost an average of about an inch and a half off my waistline per year. ...
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02/05/2010 06:05 PM
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Siri Hustvedt talks to Sarah CrownIn the summer of 1982, Siri Hustvedt and her husband, the novelist Paul Auster, were on their honeymoon. The pair were walking around a gallery in Paris when Hustvedt felt her arm suddenly jerking up and back, slamming her into a wall. She experienced, briefly, a feeling of absolute euphoria, then a "horrifying" migraine that lasted for a grim year in which she was closeted with a series of doctors, and even briefly hospitalised.In her new book, The Shaking Woman, part-memoir, part-scientific investigation, Hustvedt addresses a personal history that has been marked by both extensive literary output (four novels, two collections of critical essays, poetry) and acute neurological upheaval. Subtitled "A History of My Nerves" (a delicate, fretful word, redolent of smelling salts, which sits well with her pale, attenuated beauty), it opens with Hustvedt giving a memorial address for her father, two and a half years after his death. A seasoned public speaker, "confident, and armed with index cards", she nevertheless found herself "shuddering violently from the neck down . . . as if I were having a seizure". Shocked, she struggled to the end of the speech – at which point the shaking subsided. The incident jolted her so deeply that it led her to reassess a lifetime of tremors and pains. The Shaking Woman is her attempt to make sense of her past, and by doing so to discover who this "shaking woman" is, and why she chose to appear then.Along the way, it also becomes the working-out of a duality. Hustvedt is both the shaking woman of the title, and the thinking woman, the "I" of the book, who attempts to comprehend her. Fortunately, duality is safe territory for her. ...
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02/05/2010 02:05 PM
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There’s been some discussion on this blog and other places about the iPad and it possible use in healthcare. I ran across this article, “Apple Isn’t the Only Vendor With New Tablet,” yesterday and thought I would discuss it today.
Motion computing will most likely be unveiling a new tablet (presumably called the C5) for healthcare at the HIMSS conference March 1-4, 2010 in Atlanta. According the Information Week article, the C5 is more in line with what clinicians need for a mobile computing device.
The C5 is:
Rugged for falls
Can handle regular swipes of disinfectant
Has a barcode scanner and RFID reader for drug safety and supply/inventory
Has a camera for telemedicine
However the C5 is still too big if you want it to fit in the white coat pocket. The article quotes Michael Stinson (Motion Computing VP of Marketing) saying, “It’s not uncommon to see [the C5] used with a cart.”
People have been trying to make the perfect tablet for physicians for a while now. Tablet makers will be watching and copying each other and Apple to try and get into the Healthcare market. It will be interesting to see how this pans out and how/if medical libraries can fit in there. (Source: The Krafty Librarian)
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02/05/2010 08:50 AM
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The Maine Department of Environmental Protection received the results of tests conducted on leachate from three landfills in Maine – Augusta, Brunswick and Bath. Those results show that pharmaceutical drugs disposed of in household waste do end up in the liquid that drains or ‘leaches’ from a landfill…which then runs the risk of contaminating ground water and surface water supplies.
“These test results back up what we believed to be true and that is that left over prescription drugs that people throw away really don’t ever go away,” says Mark Hyland, Director of the Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management. “This is one reason we want pharmaceutical companies to do their part in taking back medication that people are no longer using and dispose of it properly.”
When prescription drugs are no longer needed they are typically: thrown in the trash, stashed in medicine cabinets – where you run the risk of accidental poisoning, flushed down the toilet – only to travel through wastewater treatment facilities essentially untreated, misused, or the cause of drug related crimes.
Leachate is typically sent from the landfill to a wastewater treatment plant where pharmaceuticals may pass through virtually untreated and go directly in the river. Wastewater treatment plants are designed to remove human waste not pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmaceuticals which end up in water bodies can have negative impacts on fish and aquatic organisms.
DEP chose to test Augusta, Brunswick, and Bath because they are landfills that take in a lot of household waste, but haven’t historically taken in sludge from wastewater treatment plants – which DEP felt could skew the test results. Types of drugs found in the leachate water were consistent in all three landfills and include antidepressants, antibiotics, steroids, as well as heart, asthma and pain medications. ...
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02/04/2010 11:00 PM
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The addiction report
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Here's an odd site to stumble into--The Addiction Report, with Tiger getting almost a perfect score. I was following a different lead--why 40 years after the current women's movement began major news stories are all about men especially athletes (9 headlines) when I came across this one on addiction, featuring Tiger Woods. Pretty interesting. If you've known any addicts or attended any 12 step programs, you've heard about the cross addictions, risk taking behavior and rage incidents."Read and learn through real life Runners Up for Stories of the Month from Doug Thorburn's January-February 2010 Thorburn Addiction Report, which can also be accessed at http://www.preventragedy.com Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods, involved in a 2 a.m. ...
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02/04/2010 10:41 AM
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Administration’s fy 2011 budget proposal demonstrates balanced approach to drug control
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Administration’s FY 2011 Budget Proposal Demonstrates Balanced Approach to Drug Control
Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
The Fiscal Year 2011 National Drug Control Budget proposed by the Obama Administration would devote significant new resources to the prevention and treatment of drug abuse, National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske said today. These resources are complemented by an aggressive effort to enhance domestic law enforcement, interdiction, and supply control programs.
Funding for prevention measures under the President’s proposal would increase 13.4 percent over the level of funding for the current fiscal year, and expenditures for treatment programs would be increased by 3.7 percent, Kerlikowske said.
Those expenditures are included in the FY 2011 request, for a total of $15.5 billion to reduce drug use and its consequences. The funds would go to the 13 Federal agencies and departments responsible for the broad continuum of drug control – from prevention and treatment to enforcement, interdiction, and international efforts. The total proposed spending in the FY 2011 National Drug Control Budget represents a 3.5 percent increase over the current fiscal year.
+ FY 2011 Drug Control Budget Highlights (PDF; 185 KB)
+ FY 2011 Drug Control Budget Factsheet (PDF; 83 KB) (Source: Docuticker)
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Iom report recommends steps to reduce threats posed by hepatitis b and c, which disproportionately affect minorities
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IOM Report Recommends Steps to Reduce Threats Posed by Hepatitis B and C, Which Disproportionately Affect Minorities
Source: Institute of Medicine
Stepped-up vaccination requirements, a boost in resources for prevention and treatment, and a public awareness campaign similar to the effort that dispelled the stigma of HIV/AIDS are needed to curb the health threats posed by hepatitis B and hepatitis C, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.
Chronic hepatitis B and C cause thousands of cases of liver cancer, liver disease, and death each year — taking the heaviest toll among Asians, Pacific Islanders, and blacks in the U.S. — and these infections account for nearly half of the liver transplantations that must be performed annually. Resources and efforts to contain the viruses that cause hepatitis B and C lag behind those directed at other infectious diseases of similar impact to public health, noted the committee that wrote the report.
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02/03/2010 11:00 PM
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Pew survey says teens love facebook, hate blogging, are always online, and don't use twitter
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Ninety-three percent of teens ages 12 to 17 go online, 75% of them own a cell phone, and 66% say they text. 58% of 12-year-olds now have mobiles, compared to 18% just five years ago. Sixty-two percent use the Internet to access information on news and politics, and some teens are even using the Internet as a guardian: 17% say they go online to research information about drug use, sexual health, and other topics that are awkward to talk about with real people.Social networking is up to 73% of "wired" teens, or those who use the Internet often, compared to the 55% of teens who used the sites just three years ago. However, blogging is down, with only 14% of wired teens saying they blog, compared to 28% three years ago. Commenting on blogs is also down to 52%, from 76% in 2006. And while Twitter may be hot with the older crowd, only 8% of teens ages 12 to 17 say they use the microblogging service. The highest percentage of teens on Twitter is 13% of high school girls ages 14 to 17, but compared to the one-third of adults ages 18 to 29 who update or read a microblogging service, the numbers are low.Blatantly lifted from Fast Company. More info and charts at the jump. (Source: The Centered Librarian)
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02/03/2010 11:00 PM
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Gays in the military and other hot, hot issues
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Some of my views aren't shared with other Conservatives; that's because we don't have to march lock step like the Liberals. For instance, I think Ohio's drug sentencing laws are too harsh; I think there is an advantage to medical marijuana over more harmful "legal" drugs and it should be legally prescribed by doctors; and I think gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military. But the rules will need to be just as strict for men who sexually and verbally harass men as they are for men who harass women. If a gay soldier causes a problem within the unit in which he/she serves, he's history. If a straight soldier can't accept that a gay guy will be watching his back, he's history. And none of that nonsense about victim perception. Let's not have careers and reputations ruined by hearsay and innuendo. The idea that today's young adults can't serve together in the military despite differences in sexual orientation when they've been taught nothing else but acceptance and kum-ba-yah since pre-school would mean an absolute failure of our school system. I may have my doubts about the reading and 'rithmatic, but they usually get the warm fuzzies right. (Source: Collecting my Thoughts)
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02/03/2010 03:52 PM
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Pharma is at pains to replace blockbusters: has it found the cure?
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As the pharmaceutical industry comes to grips with the expiration of some $130 billion in patented products over the next four years, executives can no longer bank on a single drug like Lipitor to drive earnings. Instead, they are aiming to diversify their drug portfolios, hoping to develop products for far less than the $800 million-plus figure often cited as the price of bringing a new drug to market. According to industry experts, new paths involve innovative business models and unfamiliar risks, including allowing outsiders to see company secrets at earlier stages and mimicking biotech venture capital models. (Source: Knowledge@Wharton)
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02/03/2010 03:45 PM
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New report: social media and young adults
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From the Overview:
Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. Even as blogging declines among those under 30, wireless connectivity continues to rise in this age group, as does social network use. Teens ages 12-17 do not use Twitter in large numbers, though high school-aged girls show the greatest enthusiasm for the application.
Read the Complete Report (HTML)
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The Summary of Findings are Quite Extensive. Here are a Few We Found to be the Most Interesting. Make Sure to Visit the Page to Review All of the Data.everal Findings that
Blogging has declined in popularity among both teens and young adults since 2006. Blog commenting has also dropped among teens.
14% of online teens now say they blog, down from 28% of teen internet users in 2006.
By comparison, the prevalence of blogging within the overall adult internet population has remained steady in recent years. Pew Internet surveys since 2005 have consistently found that roughly one in ten online adults maintain a personal online journal or blog.
In December 2007, 24% of online 18-29 year olds reported blogging, compared with 7% of those thirty and older.
By 2009, just 15% of internet users ages 18-29 maintain a blog—a nine percentage point drop in two years. However, 11% of internet users ages thirty and older now maintain a personal blog.
73% of wired American teens now use social networking websites, a significant increase from previous surveys. Just over half of online teens (55%) used social networking sites in November 2006 and 65% did so in February 2008.
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02/03/2010 11:58 AM
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Ftc chairman, members of congress call for legislation to end sweetheart “pay-for-delay” deals that keep generic drugs off the market
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FTC Chairman, Members of Congress Call for Legislation to End Sweetheart “Pay-for-Delay” Deals That Keep Generic Drugs Off the Market
Source: Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz and key members of Congress, including Representative Chris Van Hollen, Chairman Bobby Rush, and Representative Mary Jo Kilroy, today renewed their call for legislation that would put an end to anticompetitive patent settlements, which drug manufacturers have been using to keep less-expensive medicines off the market and charge consumers billions of dollars a year in higher drug prices.
Speaking at a joint press conference, Leibowitz said consumers are forced to pay inflated prices or forgo their medication because of these “pay-for-delay” deals, in which brand-name drug makers pay their generic competitors to keep cheaper alternatives off the market. He urged Congress to adopt a provision as part of the health care reform bill to stop pay-for-delay agreements.
“Pay-for-delay deals are a bad prescription for America: when drug companies agree not to compete, consumers lose,” Leibowitz said. “Ending this practice as part of health care reform is one simple, effective, and straightforward way for Congress to help control drug costs.”
In a written statement, FTC Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch said, “As I testified last year before Chairman Rush’s subcommittee, almost all, if not all, reverse payment agreements . . . delay generic competition longer than it might otherwise occur.”
+ FTC Staff Study (PDF; 1 MB) (Source: Docuticker)
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02/02/2010 11:02 AM
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Grisham and updike among authors banned by texan jail authorities
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Bestselling and classic books have been banned from prisons in Texas over security, race or sex concernsWhat does Annie Proulx's tale of the romance between two cowboys Brokeback Mountain have in common with Jenna Bush's non-fiction book about a teenage single mother with HIV ? They've both been banned in Texas jails, along with books by John Grisham, Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike and Alice Walker.An exhaustive analysis by the Austin American-Statesman of five years'-worth of publications whose rejection as unsuitable was appealed by inmates found a host of bestselling and classic titles had been banned from the state's prisons. Books by Nobel laureates Pablo Neruda and Andre Gide, collections of paintings by Picasso and Michelangelo, and bestsellers by James Patterson, Carl Hiaasen and Hunter S Thompson have all failed to pass the prisons' censors.Titles have been rejected over security concerns, for containing descriptions of criminal schemes, drugs or weapons manufacturing, for being racially insensitive, for potentially aiding escape, and for conceivably giving inmates an advantage over officers (How to Be An Ass-Whipping Boxer, and - perhaps less obviously - Draw Fight Scenes Like a Pro). The Elements of Persuasion: Use Storytelling to Pitch Better, Sell Faster and Win More Business was rejected in December, the American Statesman reported, because censors feared it "could be used to persuade others".The most common reason for banning titles was sex, whether in images or words, with a total ban on pictures of naked children. Tammy Shelby, who works at the prison agency's Mail System Coordinators Panel, which receives books for review if inmates choose to appeal over a ban, told the magazine that in order to separate art from child porn, reviewers check for wings. If a naked child has clearly visible wings, it is a legitimate cherub and the book can stay. No wings? It must go. ...
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02/01/2010 11:00 PM
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It only took about 20 minutes. I came in from work, put my stuff down, and immediately started scooping out duckweed. I probably took out two cups of duckweed. I can't believe I told Brenda I didn't mind duckweed when she gave me a couple of pieces in with a swordtail. I guess I'd forgotten that the last time I had duckweed someone else regularly cleaned it out. :) Then I filled the tank (it took about 10 gallons, and my tank is a 29 gallon long. I treated the water with a conditioning agent and put in a solution of good bacteria. I also fed the fish. I think the duckweed was trapping some of the food, meaning they were hungry and the uneaten food could affect the water quality. I did not vacuum out the tank--that involves siphoning, which you start by mouth--not a good idea when you've just had oral surgery.
Speaking of which, I'm healing pretty well. The gum tissue is growing over the socket and I'm up to fairly non-soft foods like bagels, although I'm avoiding hard things like, say, tortilla chips. I have had very little pain, yay, and I only took two Percocet out of the whole prescription. I've finished the Z-pack of antibiotics and don't seem to have had any ill effects. (There was concern on the part of the doctor and pharmacist because this drug (azithromycin) is related to clindomycin, which I'm allergic to. But I can take erythromycin, which is also related.) I'm also allergic to penicillin, Lortab, and latex, so I'm a problem child when it comes to going to the doctor or dentist. (Please don't plan my demise from bread mould, okay?)
Happy Groundhog Day. If one came out today here it might have seen its shadow during a brief sunlit period, but it was mostly cloudy. More importantly for me, I suppose, is that it's Imbolc, the beginning of the Celtic spring, and which is sacred to the Goddess Brigid. ...
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02/01/2010 06:05 PM
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In praise of… sir terry pratchett
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Sir Terry Pratchett is known to millions of young readers as the creator of a fantasy world where gods are self-obsessed, wizards cowardly, and heros hapless – the complete antidote to the neatly ordered world of Narnia. If there is a point to the chaos, other than humour, it is that no one is allowed to take themselves too seriously. Death, a parody of the grim reaper who appears in most of his Discworld novels, has a hard time understanding the living and being acknowledged by them. In the non-fictional world, Sir Terry is waging a parallel fight with our attitudes to legally assisted death. In his Dimbleby lecture, Shaking Hands With Death, broadcast last night, he called for the creation of euthanasia tribunals to give people with incurable diseases the right to medical help to end their lives. He even volunteered himself as a test case. Diagnosed two years ago with a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, Sir Terry has faced up bravely to the disease he calls his "embuggerance". A patron of the Alzheimer's Research Trust, and a significant donor, Sir Terry has become a formidable champion of the rights of fellow sufferers, challenging Nice for the guidance it has issued over the drug Aricept. If sufferers from incurable diseases could chose the time of their death, then each remaining day of their life would be precious to them, he argues. Sir Terry enriches a complex debate with a unique brand of honesty, bravery and humour. For in the end, his death is no laughing matter.Terry PratchettAlzheimer'sguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds (Source: Guardian Unlimited Books)
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The following grant announcements are new this week on the Population Research Institute Funding Announcements web page.
Active Living Research and New Connections Grant Opportunities – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (P30) – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Predoctoral Training Grant Development Incentive Award – Pennsylvania State University
Recovery Act Limited Competition: Framework Programs for Global Health Signature Innovations Initiative (R24) – Fogarty International Center (FIC) – National Cancer Institute (NCI) – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) – National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) – National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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ROOTS
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Introduction
February 1 is known as National Freedom Day in the U.S. It’s also the start of Black History Month, the annual celebration and triumph of the descendants of African-Americans. This year, President Obama has also indicated that National Freedom Day will also be the first ever National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. For this reason, Blawg Review #249 will follow the theme of African slavery in America, using the model of Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family.
Haley’s novel traces his family roots back six generations to one of his African ancestors, in the process telling a compelling story of survival and resilience. This post will focus on various topics within this narrative, starting from his earliest ancestor in Africa, down to Alex Haley himself. It’s also in part my story, as a Canadian of (more recent) African descent whose family friends as a child included (among others) former Nation of Islam members that evaded the draft during Vietnam by moving to Toronto. Their oral traditions, often told sitting around a campfire in the Canadian north, became part of my own Roots.
Left: My copy of Roots today, which I discovered over two decades ago on my parents' bookshelf. Right: How the book would look if it still had a cover.
Canada has an complicated relationship with American slavery, being one of the final destinations of the Underground Railroad. Although the Song of the Free refers to Canada as a place of safety, it is also “a cold and dreary land” where many faced rampant discrimination encoded in legislation.
Frustrated by the lack of opportunities in Canada, thousands even sought “repatriation” back to West Africa by the British during the late 18th century. Canada remained part of the British Empire until 1867, and even then held on tightly to its British roots. ...
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Significant State Sentencing and Corrections Legislation in 2009
Source: National Conference of State Legislatures
Amid the most difficult economic situation since the Great Depression, state legislatures addressed sentencing and corrections policies that better manage correctional populations and budgets. In 2009, states fine-tuned sentencing laws, expanded community-based diversion programs, and created policies and programs aimed at reducing recidivism. California, Delaware, Maryland, Montana, Oregon and Washington increased the monetary thresholds for theft-related crimes, to better align low-level offenses with less severe penalties. States required presentence risk assessments to identify defendants appropriate for community-based sentences. In Illinois and New Hampshire, presentence screening that includes treatment recommendations must be completed for current military or veterans diagnosed with a mental illness.
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This is a moving examination of what it means to be human, says Hilary MantelWhen Siri Hustvedt's father died, she wrote his eulogy and at his funeral delivered it "in a strong voice, without tears". Two and a half years later, back in her Minnesota home town, she stood up to talk about him again to a college audience, on the campus where for 40 years he had been a professor of Norwegian studies. An experienced speaker, she was "confident and armed with index cards". But the speech was a disaster. She shook so violently, from the neck down, that she could hardly stay on her feet. It was, her mother said, "like an electrocution".As a delayed grief reaction, it seemed alarmingly exaggerated. But it was not the first time her body had put on a show. A fit or seizure in a Paris art gallery had been succeeded by a feeling of euphoria and then a migraine headache which lasted the better part of a year, in the course of which she was hospitalised for investigation. Migraine, and its associated sensory disturbances, was a condition she had lived with since childhood. She was accustomed to her personal pathologies; she cherished them, even, as part of her identity. But when the shaking repeated itself, again in public, unpredictably and seemingly disconnected from emotion, she decided to launch a quest to find the shaking woman within herself, "a Mr Hyde to my Dr Jekyll, a kind of double".Her book is a personal investigation, a philosophical inquiry, and a pithy, compacted consideration of how both psychiatry and neurology have evolved in the last two centuries. Where is her malaise located? Can it be pinned down anatomically, or is it free-floating, abstract? She undergoes brain scans, which show nothing; she ventures into psychoanalysis, in which she has a long-standing but wary interest. ...
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A pair of new novels from Joyce Carol Oates leave Sarah Churchwell with a strong sense of déjà vuJoyce Carol Oates is almost as famous for her productivity – 56 novels in 46 years – as for her books, but publishing two novels in the same month is prolific even by her standards. And while it is one thing for a novelist to have characteristic themes and preoccupations, it is another to plough the same furrow. Oates's stories are easily parodied because they can seem formulaic: gender, class and racial politics dovetail with sexual or urban violence; beautiful young girls are drawn to bad boys or powerful older men and No Good Will Come of It.With only a few exceptions, her fiction takes the form of gothic initiation tales reworking fairytale tropes in either blue-collar or suburban American settings. Ostensibly quite different, in fact Little Bird of Heaven and A Fair Maiden play together contrapuntally like different parts of the same fugue. The same could be said of virtually all Oates's fiction, although its baroque qualities are not always virtues.Like We Were the Mulvaneys before it, Little Bird of Heaven is set in fictional upstate Sparta, NY, a factory town dying a fitful, entropic death. Both books tell of teenagers drawn together across social divides by an act of sexual violence, a primal scene which haunts their lives and interweaves their fates. Little Bird of Heaven opens in the early 1980s with the death of Zoe Kruller, an aspiring singer and cocktail waitress who has left her family to live in semi-prostitution and spiralling drug addiction; her brutally murdered body is found by her 14-year-old son Aaron. The prime suspects are her estranged husband, Aaron's father Delray, a mixed-race mechanic, and Zoe's married lover, Eddy Diehl.The first half of the novel is told from the perspective of Eddy's 11-year-old daughter Krista, stubbornly convinced of her father's innocence and bitterly resenting her mother's doubts. ...
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01/28/2010 04:20 PM
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We all know that a controversial topic today is climate change. Yes, this is about climate change, but no, it isn’t about whether there is global warming or not. Instead, this is the story of what happens when the editor goes missing.
The story begins with a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-affiliated group. Five glaring errors were found in the report, errors serious enough to warrant an apology from the scientists who wrote the particular section under scrutiny.
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01/27/2010 11:00 PM
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From ScienceDirect:
Methods in Cell Biology, v.93, 2009: Cilia: Model Organisms and Intraflagellar Transport
Selected titles from SCI-TECHnetBASE [Tips for opening chapter PDFs]:
New books are not being added for the past several months. They are preparing a new interface which is due to be released soon. At that point, I expect we will have a long list of newish CRC Press books (and book from other publishers) online.
New from Springerprotocols [These are added to Becker Medical Library Catalog]:
Proteome Bioinformatics (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.604)
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Natural Killer Cell Protocols: Cellular and Molecular Methods (Methods in Molecular Biology, v.612)
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Spatial Complexity, Informatics, and Wildlife Conservation
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Richard Holmes reveals the strange, captivating, haunted poems that lay behind Samuel Taylor Coleridge's magical titlesThe very name Samuel Taylor Coleridge seems to reverberate like some mysterious timpani. Those magical titles of his vibrate and echo over an infinite distance: Kubla Khan, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Frost at Midnight … Or for that matter the notorious Person on Business from Porlock. Almost unnecessary, one might think, to turn back to the poems themselves at all (do they still do so in schools?). Those proverbial titles seem to hold all the poetry.So it easy to forget how strange, how captivating, how haunted Coleridge's actual poems are. Why is it, for example, that so many of them are set at night? Why do their outer landscapes always dissolve into inner dream worlds? Why are they so full of guilt? And yet why are they also so often suffused with beautiful, healing, glimmering moonlight?One answer to all these questions (especially popular among recent film-makers) has always been drug addiction. Step forward, Coleridge the lyrical smackhead. Coleridge's poems are explained away as forms of drug-induced hallucinations. It is certainly true that Coleridge began taking opium as a schoolboy in London, experimented with it throughout his 20s in the West Country and Germany, and was seriously addicted by the time he settled in the Lake District in 1801 aged 29.Five poems in this selection have a sufficiently bewildering range of traumatic subject matter to be classed (mistakenly) as psychotic. In clinical notes they might be described as follows: the sexual fantasies of a Mongol warlord; the hallucinations of a paranoid sailor; the hysteria of a young woman assaulted by a lesbian demon; and the masochistic mutterings of a suicidally depressed lover. They end with the first ever – and truly terrifying – poem of drug withdrawal, The Pains of Sleep, dated 1803. ...
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