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Popcorn Lung Coming to Your Kitchen? The FDA Doesn’t Want to Know |
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7:35 pm EST, Jan 17, 2008 |
In July, Dr. Cecile Rose, the chief occupational and environmental medicine physician at National Jewish Medical and Research Center, the most prestigious lung disease hospital in the country, wrote to the FDA, CDC, EPA and OSHA, informing the agencies of a patient she had recently identified “with significant lung disease whose clinical findings are similar to those described in affected workers, but whose only inhalational exposure is as a heavy, daily consumer of butter flavored microwave popcorn.” This letter is a red flag, suggesting that exposure to food flavor chemicals is not just killing workers, but may also be causing disease in people exposed to food flavor chemicals in their kitchens.
Oh Really? Popcorn Lung Coming to Your Kitchen? The FDA Doesn’t Want to Know |
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A Tale of Two Pencils: Charles R. Keeran's Eversharp and Hayakawa Tokuji's Ever-Ready Sharp |
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12:35 am EST, Jan 17, 2008 |
This is the tale of two pencils, each the brainchild of a pioneering inventor. One came from America; the other, from Japan. Twenty years ago, the stories of these two pencils got confused and ended up conflated into a single account, which has been repeated in every book and article on pen collecting published since.[1] According to this thoroughly scrambled history, the Eversharp pencil was invented in Japan by Hayakawa Tokuji, who later went on to found the Sharp Electronics company; rights to this pencil were purchased by the Wahl Company of Chicago, which moved production to the United States.
Sharp Electronics started with pencils... Good Read.... :) A Tale of Two Pencils: Charles R. Keeran's Eversharp and Hayakawa Tokuji's Ever-Ready Sharp |
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A Tale of Two Pencils: Charles R. Keeran's Eversharp and Hayakawa Tokuji's Ever-Ready Sharp |
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12:35 am EST, Jan 17, 2008 |
This is the tale of two pencils, each the brainchild of a pioneering inventor. One came from America; the other, from Japan. Twenty years ago, the stories of these two pencils got confused and ended up conflated into a single account, which has been repeated in every book and article on pen collecting published since.[1] According to this thoroughly scrambled history, the Eversharp pencil was invented in Japan by Hayakawa Tokuji, who later went on to found the Sharp Electronics company; rights to this pencil were purchased by the Wahl Company of Chicago, which moved production to the United States.
Sharp Electronics started with pencils... Good Read.... :) A Tale of Two Pencils: Charles R. Keeran's Eversharp and Hayakawa Tokuji's Ever-Ready Sharp |
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Ze Frank Hosts PRI's Fair Game... |
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12:10 pm EST, Jan 16, 2008 |
Frank was a substitute host on the July 24, 2007 edition of the PRI public radio show Fair Game with Faith Salie.
Funny.. Ze Frank Hosts PRI's Fair Game... |
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Malware Warning For the American Spectator? |
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6:14 pm EST, Jan 5, 2008 |
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Hmm ... The American Spectator is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine ...
I'm not conservative but I think it is funny that Google says that this website is harmful... Hahaha :P Google's quaf? or what? How does google mark a side as badware? Malware Warning For the American Spectator? |
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11:33 pm EST, Jan 3, 2008 |
So Ben was sentenced last Thursday for stock fraud. The grace note is this: after resigning from Yomu (to protect the company, of course), he found a $200,000 job as VP of Engineering for a company called MemeStreams. He implemented his same hiring practices there; at one point he hired a DBA who couldn't A a DB; she worked in his office with the door closed, and at about that time the BenCam went off-line. He was having relations with three of his female subordinates, including being caught in flagrante delicto in the "engineering pit" with two of them after a company party at a bar. The DBA was fired after that because she was entirely unqualified, but everyone else remained. Investors came in and evaluated the company, picking off a lot of deadwood (including one former Yomu employee who, while smart and capable, was in way over his head at MemeStreams), but again keeping Ben. But this past Thursday, there was an interesting revelation. It seems that while the CEO knew about Ben's precarious legal situation, full disclosure had not been made to the investors. MemeStreams closed on Friday. The double-grace note is that I was dumb enough to do some minor contract work for MemeStreams, on the grounds that Ben didn't actually control the money. I doubt I will ever get paid; the company is insolvent with $750,000 in debt and $3,000 in the bank. Oh, well.
Who wrote this? It says it's fiction... Hua? A Bizarre Little Tale |
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