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New Orleans man accused of using diaper fetish in human trafficking scheme pleads guilty
A DIAPER FETISH IN A HUMAN TRAFFICKING SCHEME AND HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO THE CHARGES RUTLEDGE DEEDS HAS ADMITTED TO POSING AS A MAN WITH DISABILITIES AND USING A WEBSITE TO HIRE UNSUSPECTING WOMEN TO CHANGE HIS DIAPERS. HE PLEADED GUILTY TO FOUR COUNTS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING ONE COUNT OF POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE AND ONE COUNT OF POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA DEE'S ORIGINALLY PLEADED GUILTY BACK IN NOVEMBER, BUT THE JUDGE THREW IT OUT. HANG UP OVER THE PUNISHMENT DAYS HAS B
A New Orleans man accused of using a diaper fetish in a human trafficking scheme pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in criminal court. His roughly 12-year prison sentence was suspended, as part of the plea deal, and Ad Hoc Judge Hunter Harris ordered him to five years of active probation. Rutledge Deas IV, 30, is accused of posing as a man with disabilities and using a website to hire unsuspecting women to change his diapers. He pleaded guilty to four counts of human trafficking, one count of possession of methamphetamine and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. The scheme involved arranging "babysitting" sessions for his fictitious younger brother with mental disabilities, then pretending to be the little brother with autism. One of the four victims prosecutors identified testified virtually on Monday, telling Deas she has been unable to trust strangers enough to help others with mental disabilities outside of her job. The lengths he went to deceive her and others, she said, "were vast.""You were truly a wolf in sheep's clothing," she said. The woman grew audibly emotional when she said what tortures her most is that she introduced him to her children, hoping to teach them about autism and about accepting differences in other people. She said the lesson they learned, instead, was that "monsters" do not look like the scary ones they see on TV.The sentence includes 10 years, suspended, for the human trafficking charges; 18 months, suspended, for possession of meth; and 15 days in the parish jail, suspended, for possession of drug paraphernalia. Conditions of his five years of active probation include staying employed, 400 hours of community service, counseling with a focus on internet addiction and sexual health, rehabilitation services and Alcoholics Anonymous. At the time of his arrest last year, Deas told investigators he was sexually traumatized at a young age and suffered from depression, anxiety and other mental health problems but that he had not been diagnosed with autism and had no physical disability, an arrest affidavit states. During Monday's hearing, he spoke clearly, addressing the judge, "Yes sir," "Yes, your honor," and affirmed his wishes to plead guilty. This is the second time Deas has pleaded guilty to the charges.Back in June, he admitted in court that he does not have disabilities and pleaded guilty to the charges.The judge rescinded the plea after there was a hang-up over the punishment for Deas.Deas was released from prison back in April due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A New Orleans man accused of using a diaper fetish in a human trafficking scheme pleaded guilty Monday afternoon in criminal court. His roughly 12-year prison sentence was suspended, as part of the plea deal, and Ad Hoc Judge Hunter Harris ordered him to five years of active probation.
Rutledge Deas IV, 30, is accused of posing as a man with disabilities and using a website to hire unsuspecting women to change his diapers. He pleaded guilty to four counts of human trafficking, one count of possession of methamphetamine and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
The scheme involved arranging "babysitting" sessions for his fictitious younger brother with mental disabilities, then pretending to be the little brother with autism.
One of the four victims prosecutors identified testified virtually on Monday, telling Deas she has been unable to trust strangers enough to help others with mental disabilities outside of her job. The lengths he went to deceive her and others, she said, "were vast."
"You were truly a wolf in sheep's clothing," she said.
The woman grew audibly emotional when she said what tortures her most is that she introduced him to her children, hoping to teach them about autism and about accepting differences in other people. She said the lesson they learned, instead, was that "monsters" do not look like the scary ones they see on TV.
The sentence includes 10 years, suspended, for the human trafficking charges; 18 months, suspended, for possession of meth; and 15 days in the parish jail, suspended, for possession of drug paraphernalia. Conditions of his five years of active probation include staying employed, 400 hours of community service, counseling with a focus on internet addiction and sexual health, rehabilitation services and Alcoholics Anonymous.
At the time of his arrest last year, Deas told investigators he was sexually traumatized at a young age and suffered from depression, anxiety and other mental health problems but that he had not been diagnosed with autism and had no physical disability, an arrest affidavit states.
During Monday's hearing, he spoke clearly, addressing the judge, "Yes sir," "Yes, your honor," and affirmed his wishes to plead guilty.
This is the second time Deas has pleaded guilty to the charges.
Back in June, he admitted in court that he does not have disabilities and pleaded guilty to the charges.
The judge rescinded the plea after there was a hang-up over the punishment for Deas.
Deas was released from prison back in April due to the coronavirus pandemic.


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Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences - Fiscal Year 2007 (NUREG-0090, Volume 30)
NUREG-0090, Volume 30 (PDF - 1.97 MB)
Manuscript Completed: April 2008
Date Published: April 2008
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Section 208 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-438) defines an "abnormal occurrence" (AO) as an unscheduled incident or event that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) determines to be significant from the standpoint of public health or safety. The Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-66) requires that the NRC report AOs to Congress annually.
This report describes the five events that the NRC identified as AOs during Fiscal Year (FY) 2007, based on the criteria defined in Appendix A to this report. All five of those events occurred at NRC-licensed medical institutions. The first event involved radiation exposure to an embryo/fetus. The other four NRC-licensee events were medical events, as defined in Title 10, Part 35, of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR Part 35).
In addition, this report describes six events that Agreement States identified as AOs during FY 2007, based on the criteria in Appendix A to this report. Agreement States are those States that have entered into formal agreements with the NRC, pursuant to Section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act (AEA), to regulate certain quantities of AEA material at facilities located within their borders. Currently, there are 34 Agreement States. All six of the events that were reported by Agreement States occurred at medical institutions and were medical events, as defined in 10 CFR Part 35.
Appendix A to this report presents the NRC's criteria for selecting AOs, as well as the guidelines for selecting "Other Events of Interest." Appendix B, "Updates of Previously Reported Abnormal Occurrences," provides an update regarding an event that was reported in the FY 2006 Report to Congress on Abnormal Occurrences, which involved a spill of high-enriched uranium at a fuel fabrication facility. Appendix C, "Other Events of Interest," presents two events of interest identified during FY 2007 at two U.S. commercial nuclear power plants. Appendix D, "Glossary," contains a glossary of terms used throughout this report. Appendix E, "Conversion Table," presents commonly used conversions when calculating doses.

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Tampa Office 2811 W. Kennedy Blvd Tampa, FL 33609
Free Consultations Available 24/7
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Head & Spine Injury
Appeals & Post Conviction Claims
"EMOTIONAL SUPPORT" PIT-BULL MAULS LITTLE GIRL AT AIRPORT
A family filed a lawsuit on behalf of their 5-year-old daughter, Gabriella, after she was mauled by an "emotional support" pit-bull at a terminal in a Portland, Oregon airport. The lawsuit names the dog's owner, Alaska Airlines, and the municipal agency Port of Portland as defendants and accuses each of them with negligence since the pit-bull was allowed access through the airport terminal without having first followed safety guidelines, including being in a crate. The traumatic incident for the young girl is just one of numerous high-profile allegations of bad support-animal behavior at airports as airlines and the federal government have scrambled to respond to a growing pile of complaints, ranging from poor potty training to nasty bites.
The episodes have proliferated over the past two years, fueling a debate over how the animals should be regulated while traveling. In June 2017, a 70-pound emotional support dog bit a man in the face just as he sat down in his window seat on a Delta Air Lines flight departing Atlanta, leaving him with 28 stitches. In February 2018, another emotional support dog chomped at a little girl's forehead on a Southwest Airlines flight departing Phoenix, leaving her with only a scrape but causing panic.
In Gabriella's case, she had to undergo tear-duct surgery, leaving her with permanent scars, her attorney, Chad Stavley, told The Washington Post. The pit bull severed her tear duct and disfigured her upper lip, leaving a chunk of it missing, according to a graphic photo of her injuries provided by Stavley. A long streak of red leading from the corner of her eye drips down her cheek.
Stavley said he hopes the lawsuit, filed Monday in Multnomah County Circuit Court, will push airports and airlines to strictly enforce the policies surrounding emotional support animals that most created in response to the 2017 and 2018 dog bites. The new rules intend to clamp down on fraudulent emotional support animals or service animals — people's house pets disguised as helpers — while also making sure the animals that people really need are kept away from other passengers as much as possible.
Stavley said he plans to investigate whether the dog that bit Gabriella was a legitimate emotional support dog. The dog's owner, Michelle Brannan, claims that it was, according to the lawsuit. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night. It's unclear if she still owns the dog. According to a December 2017 report from KATU 2 News, the dog was quarantined at an animal shelter for 10 days following the attack, and the owner was cited by police for failing to crate the dog.
"There's a lot of abuse of this emotional support animal situation," Stavley said, "and folks who have legitimate service animals — people who are blind and need guide dogs and the like — are kind of getting thrown into the same boat [as emotional support animals]. It shines a poor light on those folks."
The Port of Portland and Alaska Airlines, which Brannan and the Gonzalez family were flying that day, both declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.
The concerns from the airlines also prompted the Transportation Department to review its own rules for service and support animals last year. The agency intended to crack down on the "fraudulent use" of animals who aren't really service animals and to make sure measures are in place to prevent badly behaved pets from boarding flights. It has yet to issue a final rule change.
In the meantime, Stavley said Gabriella will not be boarding any flights anytime soon. The girl developed a fear of airports, he said, as well as a fear of petting dogs.
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Q: Preg_match: зашифровать ссылку Я очень тугой в этом вопросе, мне просто нужно для заполнения формы задать значения для обязательного ввода. С логином, паролем и e-mail я разобрался, теперь мне нужно, чтобы при регистрации люди указывали ссылку на профиль с другого сайта, например, http://steamcommunity.com/id/12345678/, мне нужно зашифровать http://steamcommunity.com/id/, а всё, что стоит после id, меняется на цифры и буквы. Я попробовал, получилось что-то вроде
(!preg_match("http://steamcommunity.com/id/+([a-zA-Z0-9\-])", $_POST['community']))

В чём моя ошибка?
A: Вам же нужно проверить на допустимые символы в параметре, идущем после id?
if(!preg_match("/^http:\/\/steamcommunity\.com\/id\/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)\/$/i", $_POST['community'])) {
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}

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The Texarkana, Ark., City Board of Directors meets tonight and will consider allowing the Texarkana Water Utilities to raise water rates.
The ordinance would allow the water utilities to raise water rates 10 percent for all customer classifications to pay for the acquisition of additional Millwood Lake water rights from the Southwest Arkansas Water District.
Directors will also consider establishing an Anti-Discrimination Policy for the city and for other purposes. The board will also consider accepting the City Manager employment agreement.
Additionally, the directors will hear about granting permission to the Parks and Recreation Department to host the 4th Annual Mardi Gras Parade and Festival on Saturday, February 6 from 8AM to 7PM.
There will also be comments from the mayor, questions from directors and citizen communication time as well.
The board will also hold a closed executive session to make appointments to various boards, commissions, and committees.
The public is invited to attend the open portions of tonight's board of directors meeting, which gets under way at 6:40PM at Texarkana, Ark., City Hall.


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Jack and Jill of America Celebrates Graduating Seniors
By Hello Woodlands | May 8, 2017
On Sunday, April 30th The Woodlands Chapter of Jack and Jill of America celebrated three of its graduating high school seniors at the Raveneaux Country Club. Each year the organization honors seniors and their families. This year The Woodlands chapter recognized Sydney Jackson, Mia Moore and Tiarra Moore.
Sydney Jackson, The Woodlands High School
Sydney Jackson, the daughter of Gilbert and Lisa Jackson, is a student at The Woodlands High school. Throughout her school years in the area, Sydney has participated in several leadership programs with the CISD Leadership Camp, the Hampton University A+ Program and Education in Action. Also, Sydney is a Varsity volleyball player and she has played at The Woodlands High School for all four years. In her senior year, she was awarded Defensive Player of the Year, Academic All District, and 2nd team All District for 6A. Sydney has traveled all over the US with her Houston Juniors Club Volleyball team. This Fall, Sydney will attend Howard University in Washington, DC and major in business and computer based information systems. Sydney is a member of the Windsor Village United Methodist Church.
Mia Moore, The Woodlands College Park High School
Mia Moore, the daughter of Peter Moore, Jr. and Nicole Olivier Moore, is a student at The Woodlands College Park High School. Mia is a member of the National Honor Society, National English Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society and is a Distinguished Achievement Program Scholar Candidate. She is an active member of The Woodlands College Park Varsity Track and Field team where she is a four-year Varsity Track Letterman and holds several school records as well as being a Regional qualifier. Mia is a Girl Scout Ambassador and 2017 recipient of the Girl Scout Emerald Circle College Scholarship. Mia will also attend Howard University in Washington, DC as a Capstone Scholarship recipient where she will major in Biology and minor in art. After graduation, she plans to attend medical school.
Tiarra Moore, Conroe High School
Tiarra Moore, the daughter of Germaine and Charvette Brown, is a student at Conroe High School. Tiarra is involved in various activities on campus. She has been on the varsity volleyball team as a starter since her freshman season and was team captain during her senior year. Some of her volleyball accomplishments include, 2016 Varsity MVP, Offensive Player of the Year, 1st Team All-District, All District Academic Team and 1st Team All Montgomery County Volleyball. During high school, Tiarra also participated in basketball, track and was on the powerlifting team. She finished the season ranked in the top 5 of female power lifters in the State. Tiarra is an active volunteer at Fallbrook Church and the Willowbrook Sports Complex where she has served as a volunteer coach for the developmental program. Tiarra will attend Texas Southern University on a full volleyball scholarship and will major in Biology. Her career goal is to be a nurse practitioner.
The members of The Woodlands Chapter of Jack and Jill of America congratulate these students on their accomplishments inside out and out of the organization and wish them well with their future endeavors.
Jack and Jill of America, Inc. is an African-American organization of mothers who nurture future leaders by strengthening children ages 2-19 through chapter programming, community service, legislative advocacy and philanthropic giving. They are a nationwide organization with over 225 chapters in seven geographic regions encompassing 35 states and the District of Columbia. Learn more at www.jackandjillthewoodlands.com.
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// +----------------------------------------------------------------------
// | Copyright (c) 2006~2019 http://thinkphp.cn All rights reserved.
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// | Licensed ( http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 )
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declare (strict_types = 1);

namespace think\model\concern;

use think\db\exception\ModelEventException;
use think\helper\Str;

/**
 * 模型事件处理
 */
trait ModelEvent
{

    /**
     * Event对象
     * @var object
     */
    protected static $event;

    /**
     * 是否需要事件响应
     * @var bool
     */
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    /**
     * 设置Event对象
     * @access public
     * @param object $event Event对象
     * @return void
     */
    public static function setEvent($event)
    {
        self::$event = $event;
    }

    /**
     * 当前操作的事件响应
     * @access protected
     * @param  bool $event  是否需要事件响应
     * @return $this
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    public function withEvent(bool $event)
    {
        $this->withEvent = $event;
        return $this;
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            return false;
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}

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Q: Android Map Error: Couldn't get connection factory client (with a correct ApiKey) Hi the MapActivity starts and it shows a map with lat and longitude (0,0), i can't get the current position because i get this error:
09-16 12:06:46.515: ERROR/MapActivity(464): Couldn't get connection factory client
The apikey is correct, i've also reinstalled eclipse + android sdk and regenerate another debug.keystore and its relative apikey, but nothing changed..
The source is this (note that i dont see the println on logcat                  System.out.println("* i'm here"+current_lat));
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package it.me.map;

import com.google.android.maps.GeoPoint;
import com.google.android.maps.MapActivity;
import com.google.android.maps.MapController;
import com.google.android.maps.MapView;

import android.content.Context;
import android.location.Location;
import android.location.LocationListener;
import android.location.LocationManager;
import android.location.LocationProvider;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.TextView;
import it.man.app.R;

public class Maps extends MapActivity
{
    private TextView tvName;
    private TextView tvAddress;
    private TextView tvOpenTime;

    private MapController mc;
    private MapView mapView;

    private static double current_lat;
    private static double current_long;

    private static LocationListener mNetworkListener = new LocationListener()
{
            @Override
            public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
                    makeUseOfNewLocation(location);
            }

            @Override
            public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {}

            @Override
            public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {}

            public void makeUseOfNewLocation(Location location) {
                    current_lat = location.getLatitude();
                    current_long = location.getLongitude();
                    System.out.println("*** i'm here"+current_lat);
            }
};

   @Override
   public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
   {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       setContentView(R.layout.maps);
       mapView = (MapView) findViewById(R.id.mapview);
       mc = mapView.getController();

       LocationManager mlocManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
       mlocManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, mNetworkListener);

       GeoPoint p = new GeoPoint((int)current_lat*(1000000), (int)current_long*(1000000));
       mc.animateTo(p);

 }

   @Override
   protected boolean isRouteDisplayed() {
       return false;
   }
}

the maps.xml it's this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<com.google.android.maps.MapView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/mapview"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:enabled="true"
    android:apiKey="02pmISdykDhJpseMz_d3XLv5ojPsNW25Tz9dtdA"
    />
</RelativeLayout>

and finally the AndroidManifest.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="ir.marco.furesta"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0">
    <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />

    <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
  <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps" />
        <activity android:name=".MainActivity"
                  android:label="@string/app_name">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
  <activity android:name=".Maps"></activity>

  <activity android:name=".NewsList"></activity>

    </application>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
</manifest>

A: I think you forget to specify the api key in manifest and just add this permission
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />

add api key like this.
    <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
        android:value="Your api key"/>

This code worked for me.
    public class LocTrack extends Service implements LocationListener {

        LocationManager lm;
        public double lat, lon;

        public boolean InitGPS() {

            LocationManager lm = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

            if (!lm.isProviderEnabled(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER)) {
                Toast.makeText(LocTrack.this, "Please Enable GPS!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                Intent gps = new Intent(Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS);
                startActivity(gps);
                return false;
            }
            lm.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 2000, 10, this);
            return true;
        }

        public void StopGPS() {
            lm.removeUpdates(this);
        }

        @Override
        public void onLocationChanged(Location l) {

            Storage.lat = l.getLatitude();
            Storage.lon = l.getLongitude();

            Storage.changed = true;
            Toast.makeText(LocTrack.this,"location",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }

        @Override
        public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
            InitGPS();
        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
            StopGPS();
        }

        @Override
        public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
            super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
            InitGPS();
            return START_STICKY;
        }
    }

I used this fragment for displaying map.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/map"
        android:name="com.google.android.gms.maps.MapFragment"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>


1. I'm grateful my sister Lisa talked me into buying myself a Fitbit. I absolutely LOVE it. I love how it challenges me to move more and tracks my sleep. If I want I can track my weight and water consumption (I do) and my calories (I don't). I find myself more active because I have it on.
2. I'm grateful I was able to attend the Indie Connection Day in NYC and finally meet Donna Maria in person. I think I've been an Indie member for 5 years now. I've taken online classes that Donna Maria has offered and I became part of the NYC and Long Island Indies. I'd been looking forward to meeting her for a long time and she didn't disappoint. Connection Day rocked and I have new goals and enthusiasm for Alegna Soap®.
3. I'm grateful I was able to spend Saturday with my sisters "spring" cleaning the house for my parents so they didn't have to do it. Especially with them laughing at my Starbucks order (a tall salted caramel mocha latte in a venti cup filled to the top with 2% milk) and fighting about the radio station (Lisa and I lost, Pam won), I think my parents enjoyed watching and listening to us.
4. I'm grateful for the Jewish holidays, because I had Monday and Tuesday off from work and was able to catch up on my soap making.
5. I'm grateful my husband decided to get a Fitbit too.
I am sure your parents enjoyed listening to their children. How nice of you to to get together and help them. I know, they have done so much for us it is little in comparison but so many people are left alone. Very giving of you and your sisters to do that.
You said it Sharon, they have done more for me (and my sisters) than we can ever do in return. It was actually fun to clean with my sisters again.
I've been thinking about getting a Fitbit. I didn't know they could track your sleep. I'll have to do some research.
Donna get one! We can become "Fitbit" friends and invite each other to different challenges.
I've been an Indie for over a dozen years! dM is an amazing woman and I'm so glad you got to meet her in person. I'm looking forward to seeing her again in a couple of weeks at the Indie Connection Day in Portland!
I felt like I already knew her. Still, it was so exciting to actually meet Donna Maria. Enjoy your Connection Day Vanessa.
I am so happy to hear you had such a great time at the Indie Connections Day. I am looking forward to the Portland Connections Day.
Diana you will have a great time! Enjoy!
Oh I love the Salted Caramel Latte too. I've been hearing about the fitbit for so long now. A friend recommended on and my sister got one a year ago. Think I'm going to get one soon or for Christmas.
You will love the Fitbit Michelle.
I'd love to see a blog on your silkscreening. How about it??
Thank you for letting me know Anne Marie. I love blogging my list because it helps me to remember the same thing.


text:
'''
Created on 2013-05-15

@author: Scott Sibole
'''
from __future__ import print_function
from builtins import range
from builtins import object

class Boundary(object):
    '''
    classdocs
    '''

    def __init__(self,steps=1):
        '''
        self.bcs - list of Dictionaries containing all boundary conditions with the following types
            fixed - list with each entry containing a 2 element list of: node id, dof
            prescribed - list with each entry containing a 4 element list of: node id, dof, load curve id, scale
            prescribed relative - same as prescribed but has type relative (relative BCs have to have a separate XML parent)
            contact - list containing a dictionaries each containing
                ctype - 'sliding_with_gaps', 'facet-to-facet sliding', 'sliding2', 'sliding3', 'rigid', 'rigid_wall', 'tied', 'tied-biphasic', 'sliding-tension-compression'
                master - master node or surface set (MeshDef.nset or MeshDef.fset attribute) OR if rigid: the rigid body id; if rigid_wall: the plane equation
                slave - slave node or surface set
                attributes - any attributes that should be specified: pass as a dictionary {attribute tag: value}
            spring - list with each entry containing a 6 element list of: type, node 1, node 2, E, force load curve id, scale
        '''
        self.bcs = []
        for _ in range(steps):
            self.bcs.append({'fixed': [], 'prescribed': [], 'prescribed relative': [], 'contact': [],'spring': []})

    def addFixed(self,nset=None,nodeid=None,dof=None):
        if dof is None:
            print('WARNING: No degree of freedom was specified for this boundary condition.  Skipping...')
            pass

        if nset is None and nodeid is None:
            print('WARNING: Must specify either a node set or a node id.  Skipping...')
            pass

        if nset is not None:
            for n in nset:
                self.bcs[0]['fixed'].append([n,dof])

        if nodeid is not None:
            if isinstance(nodeid, list):
                for n in nodeid:
                    self.bcs[0]['fixed'].append([n,dof])
            else:
                self.bcs[0]['fixed'].append([nodeid,dof])

    def addPrescribed(self,nset=None,step=0,nodeid=None,dof=None,lc=None,scale=None,ptype=None):
        if dof is None:
            print('WARNING: No degree of freedom was specified for this boundary condition.  Skipping BC assignment...')
            pass

        if nset is None and nodeid is None:
            print('WARNING: Must specify either a node set or a node id.  Skipping BC assignment...')
            pass

        if lc is None:
            print('WARNING: Must specify a load curve ID. Skipping BC assignment...')
            pass

        if scale is None:
            print('WARNING: No scale specified for this boundary condition.  Using default of 1.0...')
            scale = 1.0
        if ptype is not None:
            keywd = 'prescribed relative'
        else:
            keywd = 'prescribed'

        if nset is not None:
            for n in nset:
                self.bcs[step][keywd].append([n,dof,lc,scale])

        if nodeid is not None:
            if isinstance(nodeid, list):
                for n in nodeid:
                    self.bcs[step][keywd].append([n,dof,lc,scale])
            else:
                self.bcs[step][keywd].append([nodeid,dof,lc,scale])

    def addContact(self,step=0,ctype=None,master=None,slave=None,attributes=None):
        if ctype is None:
            print('WARNING: Did not specify a contact type. Skipping assignment...')
            pass

        elif master is None or slave is None:
            print('WARNING: Did not specify an appropriate value for the master and/or slave.  Skipping assignment...')
            pass
        try:
            if isinstance(master[0][0],list):
                dmy = []
                for i in master:
                    for j in i:
                        dmy.append(j)
                master = dmy
        except:
            master = master
        try:
            if isinstance(slave[0][0],list):
                dmy = []
                for i in slave:
                    for j in i:
                        dmy.append(j)
                slave = dmy
        except:
            slave = slave
        self.bcs[step]['contact'].append({'type': ctype, 'master': master, 'slave': slave, 'attributes': attributes})

    def addSpring(self,step=0,stype='linear',nodes=[None,None],E=None,lc=None,scale=1.0):
        if len(nodes) != 2 or not isinstance(nodes[0],int) or not isinstance(nodes[1],int):
            print('WARNING: List of nodes must be 2 integer elements.  Skipping spring definition...')
            pass
        if stype=='linear' or stype=='tension-only nonlinear':
            if E is None:
                print('WARNING: Must specify a spring stiffness if type is linear or tension-only linear.  Skipping spring definition...')
                pass
        if stype=='nonlinear' and lc is None:
            print('WARNING: Must specify a force load curve if type is nonlinear.  Skipping spring definition...')
            pass
        if stype=='nonlinear' and scale is None:
            print('WARNING: No scale was specified.  Using default value of 1.0...')
            scale = 1.0

        self.bcs[step]['spring'].append({'stype':stype,'n1':nodes[0],'n2':nodes[1],'E':E,'lc':lc,'scale':scale})


Manhattan Scientifics Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Metallicum, Inc. | Manhattan Scientifics Inc.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Mar 31, 2008 -- Manhattan Scientifics (Pink Sheets:MHTX) announced today that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) with Dr. Terry C. Lowe, president of Metallicum, Inc., to acquire Metallicum together with its patent rights to produce and market NanoTitanium and other ultra fine grain nano-structured metals.
The details of the planned merger were not disclosed. A definitive agreement is expected to be concluded within 60 days. Manhattan Scientifics plans to form a new Advanced Technologies division focusing on advanced science for advanced medicine.
These new ultra fine grain metals hold the promise for important advances in the medical device industry, particularly for dental implants, cardiovascular stents and for a wide range of prosthetic applications including artificial knees, shoulders, and hips. NanoTitanium is highly compatible with bone and is thought to provide stronger, faster bonding with improved strength, biocompatibility, longer life and improved wear and tear.
Founded in 2001, Metallicum has developed methods to modify the microstructure of metals by "nanostructuring" them. This procedure simultaneously increases the biocompatibility and strength of virtually any metal. For example, nanostructuring pure titanium (the material that is most commonly used in dental implants) can more than double its strength, making it stronger than most existing titanium alloys. The ability of bone cells to attach to nanostructured pure titanium surfaces at rates greater than 100% higher than with conventional alloys enables the development and marketing of a dental implant that can be fully integrated and useable with half the healing time of existing products. Other medical prosthetics will follow along the same path.
Manhattan Scientifics' newly elected CEO, Manny Tsoupanarias, added, "While we continue our efforts in the area of alternative energy and we have successfully incubated technologies associated with the U.S. Government labs in New Mexico, including Novint Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:NVNT), we have identified another promising opportunity. We have sufficient capital commitments to complete this acquisition and to fund its needs. We've opened discussions with potential customers in Europe and we are moving forward to conclude this transaction. We plan to manufacture the new metal in a plant already under construction in Albuquerque, NM and to generate profits by the sale of the metal and through licensing its use in medical prosthetics. Our goal is to build a profitable new business as we re-establish our strategic direction."
Dr. Terry Lowe, Metallicum's president, added, "Extensive trials of nanotitanium-based dental implants have been conducted in Europe over the past three years. Some 600 people have successfully used and demonstrated the advantages and safety of the new form of titanium we have developed. Given the excellent history in Europe, we plan to work with the FDA in the U.S. to apply for broad use of nanotitanium under FDA's section 510(k). Ultra fine grain metals are substantially equivalent to metals currently accepted for use in prosthetics for human beings, thus quick acceptance by the FDA is expected."
Lowe previously served as deputy director of the Materials Science and Technology division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was chiefly responsible for materials technology commercialization, overseeing up to 70 license, co-venture and other commercialization agreements per year.
Lowe was formerly CEO of Technanogy, the world's first and largest nanotechnology incubator. He led the company to its first commercial production and sales of aluminum nanoparticles.


text:
Health East Flatbush
SUNY Downstate's residency program on probation
Downstate's president points to LICH
July 17, 2013 By Mary Frost Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), citing an "egregious catastrophic event," has placed SUNY Downstate Medical Center's residency program on probation, SUNY Downstate's President Dr. John Williams said a meeting of the SUNY Downstate Council on July 15.
Dr. Williams said Downstate's accreditation was placed on probation "as a result of the departure of physicians at Long Island College Hospital (LICH)," adding that Downstate had "one license for two programs. It's a direct result of what's going on at LICH."
Downstate, in East Flatbush, ended its residency program at LICH earlier this summer.
Williams said that Downstate was obligated to post the news on the Medical Center's website, "and we have to let applicants know we're on probation.
"We have the right to appeal within 30 days," he said. "We've had one set of meetings with the associate deans and program directors to put a response together."
Downstate spokesperson Robert Bellafiore told the Brooklyn Eagle on Wednesday that ACGME placed Downstate on probation after a site visit in late May, adding he was not sure what prompted the visit.
"If a medical school loses its accreditation, it's serious trouble," Bellafiore said. "Downstate is the only medical school in Brooklyn; we educate one-third of the doctors in Brooklyn and one-ninth of the doctors in New York City."
Bellafiore said the school was still going through the process of figuring out what to do. "The medical school has the letter under review and is developing a point by point response," he said.
Despite a court restraining order, Downstate has barred ambulances from LICH's emergency room, closed core departments and prohibited new admissions.
Last week, 18 people were arrested at rallies protesting LICH's closure, including nurses, hospital staff, City Council Member Stephen Levin, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio and Assemblywoman Joan Millman.
While Downstate says it can't afford to keep LICH open, de Blasio and other LICH supporters have charged that the closure of the hospital is "a big real estate deal" for SUNY, which would stand to make up to $1 billion from the sale of the property.
Emotional Brooklyn officer testifies on fatal stairwell shooting
July 17 | By Mary Frost
15 arrested at LICH protest: de Blasio, Levin, nurses put in cuffs
NYC waters are teeming with plastic particles, study finds
Emergency room crisis spreads across Brooklyn with second hospital on 'diversion'
REP. GOLDMAN TAPPED TO SERVE ON 'SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON WEAPONIZATION'
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text:
360º Experience
Correcting Clubfoot
Bringing help to developing countries for a widely untreated birth defect.
Play Story
JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: bringing help to developing countries for a widely untreated birth defect.
Fred de Sam Lazaro has a report from India's commercial capital, Mumbai, on a condition called club foot.
Its part of his ongoing series Agents for Change.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: It only sounds painful. This wailing 5-year-old is receiving the very same treatment, a full leg plaster cast, as this young, perfectly happy infant.
The therapy here in Mumbai's Wadia Charitable Hospital will save these children from a life of pain and social isolation that comes from club foot. It's a common birth defect that, in wealthy countries, is usually corrected early in life. But in the developing world, it remains largely untreated and becomes a disability, says orthopedist Dr. Alaric Aroojis.
DR. ALARIC AROOJIS, Orthopedist: It is probably the second or third important cause of physical disability in India, after road traffic accidents and trauma. It's more of a cosmetic problem initially. And as they grow older and they can find that they can no longer play with their friends, that's when it starts sinking in that this is a functional problem as well.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Club foot is congenital birth defect in which a foot, in some cases both feet, grow inward. Patients learn to walk on the side of the foot.
Twenty-six-year-old Madhu Varma says it's painful for sustained periods, but like most sufferers, she's learned to adapt. What she could not deal with was the sight of her daughter, Madhuri, when she too was born with club foot.
MADHU VARMA, Mother With Clubfoot (through interpreter): It was really difficult. I cried for days when I saw my child's foot. I could not eat. I was just sick with worry. But they told me that, with plaster, they could treat it.
DR. ALARIC AROOJIS: So this is the daughter and this is the mother. And the daughter's foot is fully corrected.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: That correction once required extensive surgery, Dr. Aroojis says. Now treatment in most cases is a series of casts over several weeks:, less invasive, less expensive and less painful.
DR. ALARIC AROOJIS: It's such a supple method. We don't force the foot in any way at all. So, as you can see, that every time we move the foot just as much as the child allows. This is a procedure which is done without any anesthetic.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Once corrected, patients like 5-year-old Nishant wear a brace attached to an outward-facing pair of shoes. In a few months, as in this case, it's only needed at night and nap time. Nishant shows no sign of an abnormal gait. His parents, struggling slum dwellers, spent hundreds of dollars at ill-equipped and poorly informed private clinics with little success.
KETAN DHEPE, Father of Child With Clubfoot (through interpreter): We had never heard of club foot until he was born. We felt terrible, but when we brought him to Mumbai, two or three people told me that Wadia Hospital has the best treatment.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: That treatment was developed by an orthopedic surgeon named Ignacio Ponseti half-a-world away here in Iowa and half-a-century ago. It would take decades before the Ponseti method became standard practice for treating club foot.
Why do you suppose it took as long as it did?
CHESCA COLLOREDO-MANSFELD, Executive Director and Co-founder, MiracleFeet: One is that the kinds of people that were treating club foot, at least in the U.S., were orthopedic surgeons. And I think they became surgeons for a reason. They like doing surgery. And this was introducing a nonsurgical technique. And I think there was some resistance to that.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Chesca Colloredo-Mansfeld, a business consultant, lived in Iowa city, where Ponseti, a Spanish immigrant, was a local legend.
CHESCA COLLOREDO-MANSFELD: Dr. Ponseti's dying wish — he was in his 90s at that time — was to try to get his treatment out to the rest of the world.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Colloredo-Mansfeld started one of several nonprofit efforts to fulfill Dr. Ponseti's wish to take the nonsurgical approach, finally standard in the U.S., to developing countries.
She co-founded a charity in 2010 called Miracle Feet, supported mostly by high net worth individuals and foundations. It's taken the Ponseti method and message to clinics in 19 countries so far, with some 23,000 patients, including those in Mumbai, providing training and supplies at low or no cost, including braces patients will use after their cast treatments are done.
In India, casting is done by surgeons, but in countries where they aren't available, non-physicians are trained. Another key role is that of clinic assistants, paid by Miracle Feet.
CHESCA COLLOREDO-MANSFELD: They work to educate that family during the bracing phase to make sure that the children wear the brace at night and complete the treatment over the next four years.
So, the correction itself only takes two to three months, but the follow-up period of maintaining that correction is absolutely critical.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Veteran orthopedic surgeon Rujuta Mehta says parents of club foot patients, once terrified at the prospect and cost of surgery, are elated when they discover it's no longer needed.
DR. RUJUTA MEHTA, Orthopedic Surgeon: The acceptability, therefore, of Ponseti is huge.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Its much simpler, less intimidating and it's cheaper?
DR. RUJUTA MEHTA: Yes, absolutely. Yes, it's cheaper. And this is the kind of thing you can apply in a public health program.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: The number of children being treated has tripled over the past decade or so. Yet five out of six club foot patients go untreated in developing countries like India, still enduring an easily correctable condition for the rest of their lives.
So the challenge is to get the word out early?
DR. RUJUTA MEHTA: Absolutely, and the more awareness there, the earlier they come, the easier to treat, the better the deformity correction.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: A deformity that is correctable even in adulthood, as Madhu Varma discovered when getting her daughter treated. She became the oldest patient this clinic has ever treated.
DR. ALARIC AROOJIS: There's a very good possibility that, just with serial castings by the Ponseti method, we should be able to get a full correction in her.
FRED DE SAM LAZARO: She had a wedding to attend, she told the doctors, where she and daughter Madhuri would be able to dance.
For the PBS NewsHour, this is Fred de Sam Lazaro in Mumbai.
JUDY WOODRUFF: And that is something to celebrate.
Fred's reporting is a partnership with the Under-Told Stories Project at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
Dr. Alaric Aroojis
"IT IS PROBABLY THE SECOND OR THIRD IMPORTANT CAUSE OF PHYSICAL DISABILITY IN INDIA, AFTER ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND TRAUMA. IT'S MORE OF A COSMETIC PROBLEM INITIALLY. AND AS THEY GROW OLDER AND THEY CAN FIND THAT THEY CAN NO LONGER PLAY WITH THEIR FRIENDS, THAT'S WHEN IT STARTS SINKING IN THAT THIS IS A FUNCTIONAL PROBLEM AS WELL."
What is club foot?
It's a common birth defect that, in wealthy countries, is usually corrected early in life. But in the developing world, it remains largely untreated and becomes a disability
The Ponseti method
Developed by an orthopedic surgeon named Ignacio Ponseti half-a-world away in Iowa and half-a-century ago, it took decades before the Ponseti method became standard practice for treating club foot. Instead of an expensive surgery, the Ponseti method uses plaster casts to correct the defect and save these children from a life of pain and social isolation that comes from club foot.
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Ellen 't Hoen
2019 had its share of noteworthy medicines law and policy events. It was also a year that saw eye-popping new levels of pharmaceutical pricing. And governments in response began to ask that companies explain why such prices are demanded. Transparency of pricing and cost became central themes in international and national debates.
Here are some highlights of 2019.
In January, the World Health Organization's Executive Board considered a study carried out by the WHO on "Pricing of cancer medicines and its impact". High cancer drug pricing is a global crisis. But people in low- and middle-income countries are most affected. The WHO report deals with the often-heard argument that high prices are necessary to finance the development of new treatments and concludes: Concerns that lower cancer medicine prices might impair future R&D seem misplaced because evidence suggests that (a) prices of cancer medicines bear little or no relationship with R&D costs; (b) financial returns of cancer medicines are high; (c) potential impact on revenue due to lower prices could be offset by higher volume, especially when the marginal cost of production is low; and (d) governments and the non-profit-making sector have made substantial contributions to the R&D of medicines through direct funding and other incentives. See here for more information.
In February, article 53(3), the second sentence of the Dutch Patent Act 1995 came into force introducing a patent exemption for the preparation of medicines in a pharmacy. Article 53(1) of the Dutch Patent Act provides the usual list of exclusive acts reserved for the patent holder: to make, use, put on the market or resell, hire out or deliver the patented product, or otherwise deal in it in or for their business, or to offer, import or stock it for any of those purposes. The law now provides an exemption for pharmacy preparation to these exclusive acts, allowing the preparation of medicines upon prescription despite the existence of a patent. Read more here.
In March, the African Union announced the adoption of a treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA). The AMA will serve as the continental regulatory body that will provide regulatory leadership to ensure harmonised and strengthened regulatory systems which govern the regulation of medicines and medical products on the African continent, according to the announcement.
Also in March Lord Jim O'Neill, who advised the UK government on antibiotic resistance, told the BBC he was shocked by pharmaceutical companies failing to tackle drug-resistant infections. He argued that part of the drugs industry should be taken over and turned into a public utility to make new antibiotics. Of course, a global public utility for antibiotic drug development exists: governments can put their money into GARP, set up by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and the WHO to fill antibiotic treatment gaps.
April is the month of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR)'s annual special 301 list of countries the USTR deems inadequate in the protection of intellectual property rights. In the universe of the USTR, this includes not appropriately recognising the value of innovative medicines and medical devices so that trading partners contribute their fair share to research and development of new treatments and cures. For example, Chile is on the Priority Watch list because the Ministry of Health issued a Resolution 399, which declared that there are public health reasons that justify issuing compulsory licences on certain patent-protected drugs used to treat hepatitis C. And India is also on the watch list because "Section 3(d) of the India Patents Act restricts patent-eligible subject matter in a way that fails to properly incentivize innovation." Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act is meant to prevent evergreening patents and granting of trivial patents. Argentina is on the list for similar reasons: not granting patents for pharmaceuticals that are granted elsewhere.
Discussions on medicines pricing continued in April at the 2nd Fair Pricing Forum held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Forum brought together over 200 delegates from government, NGOs, academia and industry to discuss how to design a fairer pharmaceutical system where medicines are affordable to those in need and the development of effective new treatments is financed appropriately. Transparency of pricing and the cost of R&D was a central theme at the meeting. Read our report of the meeting here.
Also in April, prompted by the consumer group Test Achats, the Belgian Competition Authority announced an investigation into Leadiant after the company raised the price of an old medicine, CDCA, 360-fold. CDCA was originally used for the treatment of gall stones but has been used off-label to treat a rare metabolic disease. The Belgian developments follow the investigation into Leadiant by the Dutch competition authority (ACM) in response to a complaint filed by the Pharmaceutical Accountability Foundation. The ACM investigation started in 2018 and is still ongoing. For details, see here.
May saw the most expensive pharmaceutical treatment ever going to market. Novartis received FDA marketing approval for Zolgensma, a gene therapy for children with a rare muscle disease. Novartis priced it at US$ 2.1 million per treatment. The price prompted the Dutch minister of health to write in an open letter to the pharmaceutical industry, stating: "What particularly bothers me, is that we are not allowed to know why we have to pay so much. We simply get no explanation, no insight into the price structure."
The call for price transparency was also heard at this year's World Health Assembly which adopted a resolution, spearheaded by Italy, that called for greater transparency in drug prices and the cost of research. The UK, Germany and Hungary distanced themselves from the resolution. John Zarocostas wrote a nice story for The Lancet about the drama surrounding the adoption of the resolution.
In June, parents of children with cystic fibrosis (CF), who set up a buyers club to gain access to treatments that were priced out of reach of the National Health Service (NHS), made headlines in the UK. Vertex, the sole supplier in the UK of the CF treatment Orkambi (ivacaftor-lumacaftor) insisted the NHS pays £104,000 per patient per year. Parents had found generic sources of ivacaftor-lumacaftor in Argentina and decided to set up their own supply, thereby increasing pressure on the government to issue a Crown use license to allow for the regular supply of generic ivacaftor-lumacaftor through the NHS. Re-read the story here.
Also in June, Medicines Law & Policy published reviews of the pharmaceutical incentives in the EU, including supplementary protection certificates, data exclusivity and orphan medicines regulation. The reviews include recommendations for policy and legislative change.
In July, the French NGO Médecins du Monde and the Swiss group Public Eye filed a patent opposition against a patent for Novartis Kymriah, a leukaemia treatment. Public Eye claims the patent is an attempt at evergreening patent protection of CAR-T cells to prolong exclusivity of Kymriah in the treatment of cancers.
Also in July, the WHO published the 21st Essential Medicines List, which included ten new cancer therapies. Medicines Law & Policy, together with others, wrote commentaries on the significance of this move. When WHO labels medicines as essential, it means that they have proven their utility and should be available and affordable to all. The commentaries appeared in the Lancet Oncology and the Financial Times.
On 14th of August, Winnie Byanyima was appointed Executive Director of UNAIDS. Ms Byanyima is the first woman to lead the organisation.
Also in August the FDA approved a new treatment for extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). The results of drug trials with the combination treatment of bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid hold promise for people with XDR-TB, which is very hard to treat. The TB Alliance, a not-for-profit drug developer, developed the new treatment. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called the new treatment a lifesaver for people with XDR-TB but warned that the product needs to be priced at an affordable level.
In September, Statnews reported that a French charity involved in the development of Zolgenma has obtained a 'reasonable pricing clause' for Zolgensma for people needing the treatment in France. Zolgensma is a gene therapy for young children with spinal muscular atrophy that entered the market in May (see above), sold and priced by Novartis at US$ 2.1 million per treatment. The discovery of the French exception raises the question of why other public research and funding agencies did not make similar demands? Read the full report here.
Also in September the UN High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) paid more attention to the need for affordable health technologies than previous discussions. The declaration adopted by the UN General Assembly calls on countries to ensure sufficient spending on health, maximise efficiency and ensure equitable allocation of health spending, to deliver cost-effective, essential, affordable, timely and quality health services. Specifically for medical products, the countries agreed to: Improve availability, affordability and efficiency of health products by increasing transparency of prices of medicines, vaccines, medical devices, diagnostics, assistive products, cell- and gene-based therapies and other health technologies across the value chain. Katrina Perehudoff et al published some ideas for lawmakers to include price control, the cost-effectiveness of medicines and intellectual property management in UHC legal reforms in Health Policy & Planning's December 2019 supplement. Here is the checklist list with 12 principles for UHC legal reform for access to medicines.
In October, Uganda notified the African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) that pharmaceutical inventions are not eligible for patentability in the country. Read more here. Uganda as a least developed country member of the World Trade Organization is not obliged to grant or enforce pharmaceutical product patents.
In October the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) celebrated its 15th anniversary and published a report on 15 years of needs-driven innovation for access. The publication includes data on how much it cost the DNDi to develop a new drug. Check it out on page 17 of the report (spoiler: it is not $2.1 billion).
2019 was also the 20th anniversary of MSF's Access to Medicines Campaign which was the brithplace of the DNDi. They made a nice overview of the last 20 years. Watch it here.
The issue of R&D cost, pricing and transparency will also be taken up at the World Trade Organisation following a submission by South Africa titled Intellectual Property and the public interest: R&D costs and pricing of medicines and health technologies in October. See this report by KEI for more information.
In October, Italy's competition authority also opened an investigation into Leadiant (following similar action from the Dutch and Belgian authorities mentioned above). Italy alleged that the company has abused its dominant position in the Italian market with regards to production and pricing of CDCA, a medicine to treat the rare metabolic disease, XCT. The preliminary investigation is expected to conclude by October 31, 2020. By the end of 2019, Leadiant is under investigation in three European countries: The Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.
On 24th October, after 4 years of campaigning for a better price, the CF medicine Orkambi will be available in the NHS. Watch here what it took to get there and why reforms are needed.
On the last day of October, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held their annual public health love fest and examined opportunities and challenges of new health technologies, acknowledging that access to those is now a truly global problem. We wrote about it here.
In November, over 100 organisations demanded in a petition to ARIPO, the African regional patent office, in the running up of its Administrative and Ministerial Council meetings (18 to 21 November) in Liberia, to introduce reforms to ensure improved access to medicines. They state that: to date ARIPO has failed to utilise many of the key public health safeguards allowed under international law and championed by national and regional bodies throughout Africa. Instead, ARIPO continues to grant multiple unworthy pharmaceutical patents that make medicines unaffordable to patients and governments. For example, the petition points out that ARIPO grants patents for least developed countries (LDCs). LDCs are exempt from the obligation to grant or enforce medical product patents under international law.
November also finally saw some good news on Ebola when the EMA conditionally approved the first Ebola vaccine and the WHO prequalified it, paving the way for its use in high-risk countries. A coalition of funders, researchers and NGOs, with the support of the WHO and of course the people in West-Africa who participated in the trial, made the development of the vaccine possible. Merck will produce the vaccine.
In December the US government, under pressure from the democrats in Congress, dropped the demand of 10-year data-exclusivity for biologics in the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The USMCA is the successor of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The US currently grants 12-year data exclusivity but Congress wants to have its hands free to roll back this exclusivity to allow more affordable generic products to come to the market sooner. Increasing drug prices in Canada and Mexico also curtails options for American patients to purchase cheaper medicines across the border. Such importation for personal use is an important lifeline for many in the US.
On 3 December, the French National Assembly adopted a transparency amendment to the social security budget bill that requires drug companies to disclose public financing they have received for the development of the medical product they are seeking to market in France. The comité économique des produits de santé (CEPS), the French government body in charge of setting prices for reimbursement, can take this information into consideration when negotiating drug prices. This good news, however, did not live for very long. On 20 December the Constitutional Council invalidated the amendments on procedural grounds. The amendments had wide support, including from the government. The Observatoire Transparence Médicaments (OTM) that supported the amendments has asked the government to implement the transparency demands by decree.
The WHO prequalified the first biosimilar (biogeneric) trastuzumab (a monoclonal antibody also known under the brand name Herceptin). Trastuzumab is used to treat HER2 receptor-positive breast cancer. According to the WHO, 2.1 million women contracted breast cancer in 2018 and 630,000 of them died from the disease, many because of late diagnosis and lack of access to affordable treatment. The prequalification of the biosimilar should facilitate the procurement of lower-priced trastuzumab. Trastuzumab was included in the WHO Essential Medicines List in 2015, but prices remained high because of the lack of biogeneric competition. Read more about the WHO Prequalification program here.
Finally in December, following the patent opposition launched at the EPO by Médecins du Monde and Public Eye in July, Novartis withdrew the Kymriah patent that was opposed by the two groups. See statements by the two NGOs here and here.
CDCA
Compulsory licensing
DNDi
GARDP
Medicines Pricing
orkambi
TB Alliance
USTR Special 301
WHO Prequalification
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LeBron James and the Lakers have been trying to gain their footing early in the season, clocking in a few losses. They now sit with a record of 2-3.
Now, Kobe Bryant has decided weighed in on the fate of Lakers.
Kobe was at the game last night, and it looks like his presence helped propel the Lakers to their second straight win. Only if Kobe could attend every Lakers game this season.
Sounds to me like Kobe is putting LeBron and the young pups on notice. We don't hang 'division banners' is a fantastic line.


This measure is to be submitted once for each occurrence of upper respiratory infection during the performance period. Claims data will be analyzed to determine unique occurrences. This measure may be submitted by eligible clinicians who perform the quality actions described in the measure based on the services provided and the measure-specific denominator coding.
Denominator Instructions: To determine eligibility, look for any of the listed antibiotic drugs below in the 30 days prior to the visit with the URI diagnosis. As long as there are no prescriptions for the listed antibiotics during this time period, the patient is eligible for denominator inclusion.
Numerator Instructions: For performance, the measure will be calculated as the number of patient's encounter(s) where antibiotics were neither prescribed nor dispensed on or within three days of the episode for URI over the total number of encounters in the denominator (patients aged 3 months to 18 years with an outpatient or ED visit for URI. A higher score indicates appropriate treatment of patients with URI (e.g., the proportion for whom antibiotics were not prescribed or dispensed following the episode).


Montparnasse, s'il vous plaît !
Bright lights, dark sky; Paris lies far beneath the window sill, whizzing by. 56 floors (57 for US-Americans) high in Montparnasse is an observation deck, allowing for a gorgeous 360 degree view of the city. Just three floors more and one finds themselves standing atop the tower and all of Paris to see. Just a relatively thick piece of glass, 4 more meters of inaccessible roof, and two fences separates you from the edge of this tall tower. Nonetheless, Montparnasse leaves visitors with amazing views, like this picture of the Eiffel Tower shimmering in its 21:00 light show glory.
A beautiful scene! Enjoy the experience of a lifetime!
Just read….great pic….! We never saw it at night…!Amazing!


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Travel, esp. Tourism, does poorly in a Bear Market, which we now are in, as it lacks necessity. A better bet would be a basic necessity, such as Food. People shift from meat to the cheaper noodles, so I like Kraft for Macaroni & Cheese, and patron shift from the Restaurants to the Grocery Store, so I like ConAgra for TV Dinners as so many college graduates have ZERO expectation of cooking.
I usually assume that the news is already factored in. However, after seeing hard evidence of what United Airlines allowed, the worst-case scenario, you'd have to pay me to invest in this.
Buy the bounce. A two and a half percent drop based on bad publicity is what I like to see. Hopefully it'll fall more in the future, and I'll throw some real money at it.
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Today, February 6, is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Female Genital Mutilation is a horrific crime of violence against women and girls and can cause extreme and long-term physical and psychological effects. There must be Zero Tolerance for this crime!
The CDC estimates that at least 513,000 women and girls in the United States have suffered or are at risk of becoming victims of FGM. There are an estimated 200 million women and girls across the globe who are victims of this crime.
Here at the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), we are working hard to raise awareness about this violent crime and the danger to girls in our local communities.
This expert panel will inform OVW grantees and all those working to end violence against women about FGM and the ways it intersects with domestic and sexual violence. We will hear from three current OVW grantees with first-hand expertise in recognizing FGM and responding to survivors. You will learn how to refer victims for the appropriate services and help and have the opportunity to tell us what you are seeing in your work and ask questions of the panelists.
I had the privilege to meet with one of the grantees whose work we will be highlighting in the panel: Nisaa African Family Services in Des Moines, Iowa. That visit profoundly impacted me and I can never forget the strength of these women in spite of the suffering they experienced.
The women from Nisaa emphasized to me that FGM is NOT a religious practice, but it is cultural. They spoke from their own experiences of observing it practiced across religious lines, by communities that are majority Christian and others that are majority Muslim.
Nisaa staff also explained that the people practicing FGM are often not educated on the health risks that come with this practice. FGM affects women for their entire lifetime; it affects both menstruation and childbearing, and can have life-threatening complications. One woman tearfully shared how her young niece has to miss school for two days every month because of injuries she sustained. Tragically, it is often women who support and perpetuate FGM. Where can these young girls turn when their own mothers and grandmothers support this devastating practice?
But in the face of all this, the staff at Nisaa are fighters. They are fighting FGM on the frontlines in their communities every day as they care for survivors. To create lasting community change, Nisaa holds a weekly peer group of 6-10 women, each of whom was identified as a gatekeeper or respected leader, to talk about FGM, discuss and work through their beliefs about FGM, and inform them of the serious harms of FGM. They have seen women in this group change their opinions about FGM from supporting the practice to vowing that they will never have their own daughters or granddaughters cut the way they were.
Please stand with OVW today to demand zero tolerance for FGM both here and around the world, and join us February 14 to learn more and share your insights during our interactive expert panel!
On June 15th, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) participated with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to support Operation Limelight USA at Dulles International Airport. The program is meant to raise awareness of the federal law banning the practice of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) and to coordinate prevention efforts though training, outreach, education and enforcement.
This week is National Police Week, and all of us at OVW want to thank the brave law enforcement officers who risk their lives daily to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking everywhere. Successfully combatting violence against women requires that we come together with a coordinated community response and law enforcement is at the heart of that response.