Frances Kelsey, FDA Officer Who Blocked Thalidomide, Dies At 101 Dr. Frances O. Kelsey of the U.S. FDA, who is credited with keeping the birth-deforming drug, Thalidomide, off the U.S. market, is shown in an Aug. 1962 photo. Kelsey died on Friday at age 101. toggle caption Dr. Dr. In 1960, Kelsey was the new medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration when an application for FDA approval of the sedative Kevadon, the trade name of thalidomide, manufactured by drug company William S. Thalidomide had already been sold to pregnant women in Europe and elsewhere as an anti-nausea drug to treat morning sickness, and Merrell wanted a license to do the same in the U.S. As The New York Times reports, Kelsey asked for more information. "Thus began a fateful test of wills. As The Washington Post adds, "[the] tragedy was largely averted in the United States, with much credit due to Kelsey. ... Kelsey, a physician and pharmacologist, died on Aug. 7. Dr. toggle caption Dr. Dr. As The New York Times reports, Kelsey asked for more information.
Supermarket food waste 'must be banned by EU and US', demands French politician Arash Derambarsh | Europe The politician who spearheaded the successful campaign to ban French supermarkets from throwing away unsold food has demanded the EU and the United States follow suit. Arash Derambarsh, a municipal councillor for the commune of Courbevoie in Paris, believes only legislation can prevent such food waste by large supermarkets. He told The Independent: "The problem is simple we have food going to waste and poor people who are going hungry." Now the law has passed unanimously through the French Senate, Mr Derambarsh is calling EU President Jean-Claude Juncker and President Obama to effect similar legislation. "The only goal of supermarkets is to make money, I respect them as they employ a lot people and help the economy," he said. "However, today we got a lot of poor people - we have to change." Prior to the implementation of this law, French supermarkets received tax returns on all unsold food they threw away. Arash Derambarsh "I'm elected, my only interest is the general interest."
This Marine Wants To Tell The Stories Of America's Veterans. But He Needs Your Help. You could say The War Horse -- an ambitious new digital magazine currently raising funds on Kickstarter -- all started with a rocket-propelled grenade. On Nov. 1, 2010, U.S. Marine Sgt. Thomas Brennan, then 25, was in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when that grenade exploded feet away from him. He wrote about it later in The New York Times: Looking up from the ground, it felt surreal. Brennan, a Massachusetts native who joined the Marines in 2003, suffered a traumatic brain injury that day -- his third. In late 2012, after more than 18 months of trying to cope with these conditions, Brennan attempted suicide, like so many veterans have. “Who the hell are you to say no to The New York Times? His brain injuries had also caused him to develop aphasia, a communicative disorder that Brennan describes as always having the word on the tip of his tongue, but “not being able to get it out.” One of the first things Brennan wrote was a letter to the war photographer and journalist Finbarr O’Reilly.
Tell the Copyright Office: Copyright Law Shouldn't Punish Research and Repair After eighteen years, we may finally see real reform to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s unconstitutional pro-DRM provisions. But we need your help. In enacting the “anti-circumvention” provisions of the DMCA, Congress ostensibly intended to stop copyright “pirates” from defeating DRM and other content access or copy restrictions on copyrighted works and to ban the “black box” devices intended for that purpose. In practice, the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions haven’t had much impact on unauthorized sharing of copyrighted content. Instead, they’ve hampered lawful creativity, innovation, competition, security, and privacy. In the past few years, there’s been a growing movement to reform the law. It seems the Copyright Office has heard those concerns. On the one hand, any such recommendation may be too little and too late. On the other hand, this is progress. But that progress won’t be meaningful if the permanent exemptions aren’t truly useful.
Why I told my friends to stop using WhatsApp and Telegram This morning I told my friends to stop using WhatsApp and Telegram and sent them an invitation to switch to the Signal messaging app. Here’s why. Encryption Protocols: The Signal Protocol VS Telegram’s MProto You may not realize it, but you’re probably already using the Signal Protocol — along with more than 1 billion people every day. The Signal Protocol is used by WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Allo and Signal’s own messaging app. But what is the Signal Protocol? The Signal Protocol is a non-federated cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption for instant messaging conversations. — Wikipedia End-to-end encryption ensures that your message is turned into a secret message by its original sender, then only decoded only by its final recipient. That’s what WhatsApp started to use a few months ago when they displayed this message in your conversation: In October 2016, the Signal protocol was reviewed by an international team of security researchers and got glowing reviews.
That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into the Constitutional Trial of the Century Skip to content Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss Menu Search Close this search box. Constitutional Law That Time I Turned a Routine Traffic Ticket into the Constitutional Trial of the Century January 13, 2017 By Adam J. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Print Laws that give municipal officials and their private contractors power to issue tickets via traffic cameras confer powers of both criminal and civil law while excusing them from the due process duties of both criminal and civil law. The traffic-camera ticket: like a parking ticket, it looks lawful enough. But this is not a parking ticket. My story is not legal advice. The Ticket My story begins with a confession: I got a traffic-camera ticket. I wasn’t driving the car. Municipal Court On the appointed day, I tromped over to municipal court and sat down among those accused of armed robbery, drug dealing, and other misdeeds. After a summary hearing, the magistrate ruled against me. Actually, I tried to appeal. No, we don’t accept checks. [*click*]
Climate Mirror | A Volunteer Effort to Mirror U.S. Federal Climate Data Career Advice and Salary Negotiations: Move Early and Move Often – The HFT Guy This following are hard-earned experience for advancing a career quickly. It applies exclusively to tech hubs, in particular London, the Silicon Valley and New York. Your mileage may vary, especially depending on your location, your experience and your skill. Disclaimer: I’m seriously biased toward good performers. The fastest way to advance your career is to move early and move often, especially when you’re young. It’s a lot about money. It’s also about long-term savings. It’s also about opening your eyes and widening your horizons. Disclaimer: This article will be about getting offers while threatening to quit your job. Lesson #1: ALWAYS negotiate. Lesson #2: Negotiations are based on leverage. Having a job and having competing offers are your leverage. We’ll start with some ground rules and some myth busting. Rules #1: You will NOT resign from your current job UNTIL you have a SIGNED contract with a new company. Rules #2: You already have a job. Rules #3: Leverage. Rules #4: No one cares.
Log In - New York Times Within days, far sooner than expected, an Army Corps representative from the Omaha district agreed to meet with members of the tribe. To some, this meant the youths could call off the run. But they insisted on going ahead. Three Legs insisted on bringing someone from each of the nine Oceti Sakowin bands, and the run quickly brought in people from reservations that hadn’t been involved with the Standing Rock camp. The run immediately gave him what Standing Rock would later give many other youths: a sense of purpose he had been lacking. On April 24, the runners set off south from the Sacred Stone Camp. By then time seemed to be running out: The Army Corps of Engineers was still considering the Dakota Access Pipeline’s permit, and the Tribal Council still wasn’t offering much support.