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When half a million Americans died and nobody noticed

Apr 27, 2012

Was the US drug Vioxx responsible for far more deaths than has been acknowledged so far?

ARE American lives cheaper than those of the Chinese? It's a question raised by Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, who has produced a compelling comparison between the way the Chinese dealt with one of their drug scandals – melamine in baby formula - and how the US handled the Vioxx aspirin-substitute disaster.
The Chinese scandal surfaced in 2008, shortly before the Beijing Olympics. Crooked dairymen diluted their milk products, then added a plastic chemical compound called melamine to raise the apparent protein content back to normal levels. Nearly 300,000 babies across China suffered urinary problems, with many hundreds requiring lengthy hospitalisation for kidney stones. Six died.

Long prison sentences were handed down and a couple of the guiltiest culprits were tried and executed for their role. Throughout these events, American media coverage was extensive, with appropriate sneering about the Chinese leadership's indifference to human life.
Four years earlier, in September 2004, Merck, one of America's largest pharmaceutical companies, issued a sudden recall of Vioxx, its anti-pain medication widely used to treat arthritis-related ailments.

The recall came just days after Merck discovered that a top medical journal was about to publish a study by an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) investigator indicating that the drug in question greatly increased the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes and had probably been responsible for at least 55,000 American deaths during the five years it had been on the market.
It soon turned out Merck had known of potential lethal side effects even before launching Vioxx in 1999, but had brushed all such disturbing tests under the rug.

With a TV ad budget averaging a hundred million dollars per year, Vioxx swiftly became one of Merck's bestsellers, generating over $2 billion in yearly revenue. Twenty-five million Americans were eventually prescribed Vioxx as an aspirin-substitute thought to produce fewer complications.
There was a fair amount of news coverage after the recall, but pretty slim considering the alleged 55,000 death toll. A class-action lawsuit dragged its way through the courts for years, eventually being settled for $4.85 billion in 2007.

When the scandal first broke, Merck's stock price collapsed, and many believed that the company could not possibly survive, especially after evidence of a deliberate corporate conspiracy surfaced. Instead, Merck's stock price eventually reached new heights in 2008 and today it is just 15 per cent below where it stood before the disaster.
The year after the scandal unfolded, Merck's long-time CEO resigned and was replaced by one of his top lieutenants. But he retained the $50 million in financial compensation he had received over the previous five years. Neither he nor any other Merck executives was charged with corporate malfeasance.

Senior FDA officials apologised for their lack of effective oversight and promised to do better in the future. The Vioxx scandal began to sink into the vast marsh of semi-forgotten international pharmaceutical scandals.

Then in 2005, as he now remembers it, Ron Unz "was reading my morning newspapers, as I always do, and noticed tiny items about an unprecedented drop in the American death rate. Hmm I said, I wonder if that might have anything to do with all those other stories about that deadly drug recently taken off the market and all the resulting lawsuits."
The year after Vioxx was pulled from the market, the New York Times and other media outlets were running minor news items, usually down-column, noting that American death rates had undergone a striking and completely unexpected decline. These were what Unz, a dedicated news browser, was reading.
Typical was the headline on a short article that ran in the 19 April 2005 edition of USA Today: 'USA Records Largest Drop in Annual Deaths in at Least 60 Years.' During that one year, American deaths fell by 50,000 despite the growth in both the size and the age of the nation's population. Government health experts were quoted as being greatly "surprised" and "scratching [their] heads" over this strange anomaly, which was led by a sharp drop in fatal heart attacks.

For his Chinese melamine/Vioxx comparison, Unz went back to those 2005 stories. Quick scrutiny of the most recent 15 years worth of national mortality data provided on the US Government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website offered Unz some useful clues.

"We find the largest rise in American mortality rates occurred in 1999, the year Vioxx was introduced, while the largest drop occurred in 2004, the year it was withdrawn," says Unz. "Vioxx was almost entirely marketed to the elderly, and these substantial changes in the national death-rate were completely concentrated within the 65-plus population.

"The FDA studies had proven that use of Vioxx led to deaths from cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks and strokes, and these were exactly the factors driving the changes in national mortality rates."
The impact of these shifts, Unz points out, was not small. After a decade of remaining roughly constant, the overall American death rate began a substantial decline in 2004, soon falling by approximately five per cent, despite the continued ageing of the population. This drop corresponds to roughly 100,000 fewer deaths per year. The age-adjusted decline in death rates was considerably greater.
"Patterns of cause and effect cannot easily be proven," Unz continues. "But if we hypothesise a direct connection between the recall of a class of very popular drugs proven to cause fatal heart attacks and other deadly illnesses with an immediate drop in the national rate of fatal heart attacks and other deadly illnesses, then the statistical implications are quite serious."

Unz makes the point that the users of Vioxx were almost all elderly, and it was not possible to determine whether a particular victim's heart attack had been caused by Vioxx or other factors. But he concludes: "Perhaps 500,000 or more premature American deaths may have resulted from Vioxx [my italics], a figure substantially larger than the 3,468 deaths of named individuals acknowledged by Merck during the settlement of its lawsuit. And almost no one among our political or media elites seems to know or care about this possibility."
I remarked to Unz that it seemed truly incredible that a greater than expected death rate of this dimension should scarcely have caused a ripple.
"I'm just as astonished," he said. "From 2004 onwards, huge numbers of America's toughest trial lawyers were suing Merck for billions based on Vioxx casualties - didn't they notice the dramatic drop in the national death rate?

"The inescapable conclusion is that in today's world and in the opinion of our own media, American lives are quite cheap, unlike those in China.
"Besides," says Unz laughing, "it shows the stupidity of our political leaders that they didn't seize upon this great opportunity.  They should have just renamed Vioxx the 'Save Social Security Drug,' and distributed it free in very large doses to everyone, starting on their 65th birthday. Maybe they should have even made it mandatory, three times per day. At sufficiently large levels of national consumption, Vioxx could have almost singlehandedly eliminated all our serious budget deficit problems. 'Vioxx - The Miracle Anti-Deficit Drug'."

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The Chinese executed some at the top of corporate companies that cause death we & America give them a scolding, a slap on the hand, a derisory fine & they walk away scott free.
Another sign that politicians & corporate  business are in bed together

Great article, but 55,000 is not half a million, is it? Wrong by a factor of 10.

Think of all the fuss over 9/11, just a drop in the ocean compared with the terrorism carried out by so called 'free enterprise' drug companies. No memorial? No tacky parade and wreaths laid? No address by the President from the White House? No war on capitalist terrorists?

 Did you read the article ?

 55 k is the figure proposed at the beginning by the FDA,

 the 500 K is the putative figure recently arrived at by looking at the sudden rise and then later fall in the US death rate and  calculating the net difference over the time that Vioxx was "available".

And nobody noticed all these old people dying ??

And no one from Merck served a day in jail.   Sad.

Mr Cockburn, the American media is well known for their willingness and readiness to castigate other countries/ governments in the world while being blind to the numerous problems present here in the US. Friends were surprised when I said recently that of all the countries in which I have lived, in all continents, the one whose health service I have the least confidence in is the USA's. The reason- because it is too money and profit driven. I fear that these will be uppermost in the minds of most of the health professionals who treat me or whose advice I seek.

Ah the famous insurance based, 'we don't want a socialist NHS here', American health system , fails again.  What a surprise.  I wonder how many American politicians got their campaign funds greased by Merck?

According to this Cockburn interpretation of reality, Chinese Military Controlled and Bureaucrat Supervised Collective Farms intentionally poisoning 300,000 babies in their drive to meet PRC Central Committee's quotas is a perfect moral equivalent to a private enterprise in the West ignoring some research that probably resulted 11,000/year deaths, over 5 years, of people over 65?  Yeah, Exactly The Same Thing.   Oh, and not to trouble you too much with math, but the report says deaths went up by 50,000 Per Year, and that the drug may have contributed to the death of  11,000 Per Year (55,000 over 5 years).  So, what caused the other 39,000 deaths in the increase?  Some other evil corporate plot to murder their paying customers?   Panic mongering marxist drivel.  Of course Merck should be punished, and probably more than they were, but we don't live in the PRC where scape-goats are publicly convicted in kangaroo courts and are then taken out and shot in the head, and their families charged for the bullets.

..not entirely true - we slash their $8 mil annual bonuses by 20%

So, the entire article is just a farce?

I don't think you read your chart properly.  There's a big increase from '98 to '99 and an equally large decrease from '03 to '04

I suspect this is true, although after reading the article, I am under the impression that Unz did not rigorously analyze his statistical data using confidence tests.

Given the significance of this issue, I think it would be important to compute those confidence intervals.

 Your link is broken.

The statistics you are citing are general death rates not those associated with heart attacks. I want to see the data used for this as well, but if your going to cry foul, at least get YOUR stats right.

turning a blind eye allowed a very effective population control.

Yeah; it’s a shame that we pay the FDA, not only in money
but also our liberties, which puts up a guise of safety and then protects the
company from punishment. (Very similar to the cigarette cartels set up by the
U.S.  govt) The tax revenue is too much
to say no… and you are right we should let the markets decide which companies
can survive, instead of setting up crony capitalism... which in turn puts and
end to competitiveness and innovation… removes accountability and makes it for
faulty products to stay on the market…
no company would put shit on the market if the government was not there
to protect them from lawsuits, and keep the prices sky high.

If this were true, someone else would have noticed it...sounds too good to check...

Correct me if I am wrong here on the Math in this article. Basically its states that over the life time that the drug was out Merck made 10 Billion dollars...and the lawsuit payed out 4.85 billion...they killed this many people are still in business AND made more than 5 Billion.  In a just world ALL of their money they ever made should have been taken and distributed to the victims families. And the company taken over by the US government and dismantled/sold to other companies. Oh and those who knew about it...should have been hung.

To all the conservative politicians who enabled this to happen: Have fun in Hell.

Psuedoscience at it's worst.  You have NO IDEA as to the source of reduced deaths!

At least make some secondary correlation with an increase of deaths when it was introduced; otherwise, your accusation is groundless.

SO WHAT!!?? Marijuana and cocaine kill more Americans than that EVERY DAY! That is why they are ILLEGAL!  Please get it through your heads that no matter how many people get killed by prescription drugs, they are SAFE!  They have been approved by the GOVERNMENT!

 Wow, someone has stolen my ID and is writing some craaaazy stuff.

You can't trust the government, any government, to do anything right!

Very well-done review of the Vioxx disaster. I attended the FDA advisory meeting in Gaithersburg, MD and was sitting in the first row as the Merck personnel testified. This was the only hearing I attended where the audience laughed at some of the Merck responses to questioning. Many in the audience had access to internal Merck documents which detailed their cover-up. Why are these people not in jail? The simple answer is that like in the "second-generation" anti-psychotic drug disaster, money trumps ethics in  Big Pharma.  Sad to say.

I can't help but reflect on 9/11, and how Americans still get in a tizzy and to this day cry into their cornflakes and find jokes about it distasteful.

And here we have as many as 100 times more people dying, and nobody gives a shit and the head of the organization who did it lectures at Harvard and is on the board of Microsoft.

 It ain't over until the fat lady sings..........Ray Gilmarting is now teaching at Harvard....and, on the board at Microsoft and sleeping very well at night. The only thing I can say is that Karma is a bitch. He may not know what is coming and when it is coming, but...mark my word....It will come.

what a joke, they are still operating.

Yep, and we have one political party that works overtime to stop lawsuits from happening. Tort reform is all about protecting the hiney of the most powerful.


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Patrolman Steven Gravier, 41, of 3 Highland Trail, a seven-year veteran of the department, was suspended without pay following his arrest Thursday by members of the Rhode Island State Police Computer Crimes Unit and the United States Postal Inspection Service. Johnson requested the investigation with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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I watched this spectacle again last week, on the rural quilt of Fir Island farmland, meeting up with friends who’d flown in from the Bay Area. On this particular visit, I slowed the shutter … for a couple of reasons. First, I was hindered by the Northwestern winter, tenebrous and unforgiving. Second, I wanted to capture the words above in images that suggested souls, blazes, whiteness, and cumulous wings.

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JPMorgan has settled with the U.S. Treasury Department on an $88.3 million payout for breaking U.S. embargo laws and trade sanctions in three incidents between 2005 and 2011, The New York Times' Dealbook reports. The bank made a series of transactions with Cuba, Iran and Sudan over that time. The list of infractions are as follows, and total to an estimated $181.4 million in violations:

  • In late 2005 early 2006, JPMorgan violated embargo laws by processing $178.5 million in wire transfers for cuban nationals. A different, unnamed financial institution tipped the bank off to their own misdeeds, but they failed to alert the proper authorities, and didn't make enough of an effort to ensure it wouldn't happen again.
  • In 2009 the bank processed a $2.9 million loan with, "a bank that had ties to Iran’s government-owned shipping line," a violation of trade sanctions agains the country. JPMorgan was made aware of the mistake, but again failed to inform regulators in due time. They didn't inform regulators of their mistake until three days before the loan was paid in full.
  • In 2011, the Treasury asked for documents regarding a wire transfer that referred to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. JPMorgan said they didn't know what they were talking about. The Treasury presented JPMorgan with a list of documents they believed were in the bank's possession, and, after denying it the first time, the bank coughed up the documents shortly after.

Jennifer Zuccarelli, a JPMorgan spokeswoman, commented on the charges:

The civil settlement resolves a number of OFAC allegations dating back to 2005, none of which involved any intent to violate OFAC regulations. These rare incidents were unrelated and isolated from each other. We are pleased to have resolved these matters and to move forward with enhancements to our global OFAC compliance program.

Officials from the Treasury Department said that, "managers and supervisors acted with knowledge of the conduct constituting the apparent violations and recklessly failed to exercise a minimal degree of caution or care." The fine was also reduced because JPMorgan had "cooperated substantially" with the investigation.

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All U.S. financial institutions need to take sanctions compliance seriously; all the more so for the largest and most sophisticated that have broad international exposure.  The conduct reflected in this settlement -- especially the activity that we determined to be egregious -- reflects serious deficiencies in J.P. Morgan Chase’s compliance program.  We are encouraged by the steps the bank has taken to improve its sanctions compliance efforts.


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Now that he's no longer the Governator and is once again just a plain old Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger is throwing himself back into the movie biz. He's got a role in this week's The Expendables 2, but that's more of a supporting part. So it's quite something to see him as the lead in the trailer for his next film, a small town action picture called The Last Stand. Ahnuld is back!

Say what you will about his personal life — secret bastard children, allegations of harassment, Republican politics — but Arnold Schwarznegger was always a fun guy to watch on screen. Sometimes it was the sheer comedy of his existence that made him such a delight, his "It's not a tumah!" stumbles through the English language and whatnot, other times he genuinely did project a steely seriousness, like in the Terminator films. He was best though when combining those two aspects of his personality, like in greatest-action-movie-of-the-'90s True Lies, which is both exciting and silly. Similarly, this Last Stand seems to have a bit of comedy to it, even if the only joke is that it makes very little sense that some aging Austrian muscleman would be the sheriff of a small American desert town.

But mostly, hey, it's Arnold Schwarzenegger with a gun, protecting people and gettin' bad guys! It's been years since we've seen that. And it must be said that he's looking pretty good at a lean, mean 68 years old. He's like a burly, Tyrollean Clint Eastwood. Maybe they could pair up next, maybe do Get Off My Lawn 2: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut. (Get it? Unut? Like grass? Lawn? It's pretty good.) Whatever is in the future for Schwarzenegger, we are surprisingly happy to see him doing what he does best again. It's like the '90s never ended! We can go back again! There's still time! Thank god, there's still time.


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The Good Wife exists in an alternate universe where wealthy people are constantly saying and doing clickbait-worthy, but awful, things online. Even if we're supposed to be rooting for Alicia and her clients, when bajillionaire one percenter James Paisley (Tom Skerritt) compares himself to Anne Frank and the Jews of Nazi Germany, it's oddly satisfying. Here's someone being just as clueless and horrible as you, the 99 percent, expect him to be. Despite being "victimized" for profiting off of other people's money, the one percent have nothing in common with the Jews, and Alicia has to bring in a Holocaust survivor to drive that point home.

But he keeps going: he thinks poor people are lazy, he thinks your vote should be tied to your tax bracket, and there are too many have-nots in the country. Paisley even calls Alicia a one percenter. Despite being not quite rich enough, she certainly has the Paisley cluelessness down – to quote Financial Daily Watch's Don Keats, "Actually, this is Don. Steven is the black guy to my right." (That's the second time in two weeks that Alicia hasn't been able to tell black people apart.)

But while Paisley and Alicia were on the air insulting Jews, black people, Italians, Greeks and the poor, there was a story that didn't make the papers. Peter finds out that Finn at one point or another left Alicia's apartment just as the show emphasizes that Finn is single (well, divorced). We're 99 percent sure that the two won't start sharing meaningful looks until halfway through season six, but in the meantime we have to deal with Peter creeping on unpaid interns.

Winner: The One Percent

Loser: The One Percent

Paisley went from a $140,000 settlement to a $1 million one all while looking like an anti-Semitic robber baron, which would imply that he lost. But he's still rich.

Winner: Ginger interns with "not too red" lipstick

Loser: Peter Florrick

I am not a fan of Peter. I don't find him sympathetic, and I don't think Alicia should give him the time of day. And yet, the last scene was sad. He's spent the whole episode being vindictive because he's jealous of Finn. Now it's the end of the day and he knows he's going back to his empty bed in his empty apartment. His screensaver is an impossibly flattering photo of Alicia — not the kids, just her — and he knows he ruined the best thing that ever happened to him. Then Lauren "Not too Red" Intern Girl walks in and, well, we can guess what happens next.

Winner: Louis Canning

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Rayna Hecht (Jill Hennessy) was Diane's life boat, but she made the mistake of trusting Canning with it. Hecht, aka The Rainmaker, was looking for a new firm, and Diane was close to bringing her on board. Even David Lee would have been on her side after that. But then Canning "poisoned the well" to keep his advantage. Like Kalinda said last week, "He's dying. And he's trying to screw you."


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Forest in Chilean south formed 90 million years ago in Antarctica

The government-commissioned report has found a historical link between the Antarctic and the Chilean mainland.

Fossilized plants found in the Antarctic similar to those found in Patagonian forests suggest that the two share a common heritage, according to the Chilean Government’s Antarctic Institute, INACH.

INACH researcher Dr. Marcelo Leppe led a 23 man expedition to uncover connections between the two continents. The fossils unearthed by the scientists found, he says, link the 90 million year old forests of southern Patagonia with Antarctica.

Leppe was able to make “at least four connections” between what today is Antarctica, and the current nation of Chile.

Species such as beech, oak, coigüe and mañío – even Chile’s national tree the Araucaría – are thought to have lived in what is now Antarctica during the final stages of the dinosaurs’ reign on earth, explained Dr. Leppe in an interview with El Mercurio.

Before the end of the year the team expects to complete further laboratory analysis and research to find out even more about the age of the forests, Leppe added.

“100 million years ago, there was a deep open sea known as the valley of green rock, but around 90 million years ago it began to fill with sediment, allowing the reconnection of both continents,” said the biologist.

The final link between the two continents disappeared 23 million years ago with the formation of the Drake Passage. But the Antarctic vegetation lasted long enough for the scientists to make a putative connection between the two continents.

“If we analyze the Patagonian and Antarctic flora in the last stage of the Late Cretaceous, we realize that the essential elements of Southern Chile’s forests are already present,” Leppe says.

INACH, the sole governmental agency responsible for carrying out active Chilean science projects in the Antartictic, aims to “strengthen and promote research in science, technology, and innovation in Antarctica, with an emphasis on social, political, and strategic aspects … thereby contributing to Chilean national competitiveness,” while also “fostering knowledge and making known the importance of the Antarctic continent among the Chilean national community.”

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Friday, May 27, 2011

{this moment}

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.-soulemama

nine months old to the day
standing without support
just like her brother was
...only this time I am not quite as encouraging as I was with him!

xo m.

deux chiens et un garcon said...

Happy 9 months little one. Please let you Mama have some little rest.

x jill

Rhiannon said...

Happy nine months little Indigo! I'm a little amazed that she is standing already! My munchkin is now 14months, and still only manages about 3secs! So you have a clever little girl and I have a boy who is far to busy to worry about standing and walking just yet :)
Rhi x

Michelle said...

Oh my your little baby! Slow down already!

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What a sweet little face! I know what you mean about the encouragement. My first walked early and my second was much later. I was glad for the reprieve. :)

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Look out Mama - there's a cheeky face there too!

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Lovely! Way to go little one!

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My little guy was 6 months last Sunday..these are special days that go by way too quickly!

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Clever girl! Those early walkers keep a mama on her toes!

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Wait until she starts 'cruising' :)

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This question has been asked of me: “It breaks my heart to see patients who pray every day for miracles, and still they suffer. What do I tell them?

The last years of my dad’s life were scarred by A.L.S., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It took him from a healthy mechanic to a bed-ridden paralytic. He lost his voice and his muscles. But he never lost his faith. It wasn’t so much what he said, but more what he didn’t say. Never outwardly angry or bitter, Jack Lucado suffered with dignity.

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When I saw your beautiful picture of Coco, I had to tell you that now I know I have a corgle too! They are beautiful and extremely intelligent dogs, aren't they? We love our corgle dog Maggie, and we know she loves us just as much too. We always knew she had corgi in her but were not exactly sure what the other half was until I stumbled upon this picture. It just amazes me each day how smart she is. The day we lose her is going to be one of the saddest days of my life. Congrats with your corgle. She looks exactly like our Maggie!

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Distance is 1640 kilometers or 1019 miles or 885 nautical miles

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Latitude: 53° 31' North
Longitude: 113° 12' West
Initial heading:125.9°SoutheastSoutheast
Final heading:138.4°SoutheastSoutheast

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Latitude: 43° 33' North
Longitude: 96° 42' West
Initial heading:318.4°NorthwestNorthwest
Final heading:305.9°NorthwestNorthwest

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Strathcona County (Canada - Alberta)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 11:49:10 AM
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Distance from Steinbach to Salt Lake City

Distance is 1537 kilometers or 955 miles or 830 nautical miles

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Latitude: 49° 32' North
Longitude: 96° 41' West
Initial heading:236.3°West-southwestWest-southwest
Final heading:225.5°SouthwestSouthwest

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Latitude: 40° 46' North
Longitude: 111° 53' West
Initial heading:45.5°NortheastNortheast
Final heading:56.3°East-northeastEast-northeast

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Steinbach (Canada - Manitoba)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 1:26:22 PM
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Distance from Nordkirchen to Osterholz-Scharmbeck

Distance is 187 kilometers or 116 miles or 101 nautical miles

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Latitude: 51° 44' North
Longitude: 7° 32' East
Initial heading:26.9°North-northeastNorth-northeast
Final heading:27.9°North-northeastNorth-northeast

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Latitude: 53° 14' North
Longitude: 8° 47' East
Initial heading:207.9°South-southwestSouth-southwest
Final heading:206.9°South-southwestSouth-southwest

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Nordkirchen (Germany - North Rhine-Westphalia)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 8:27:05 PM
Osterholz-Scharmbeck (Germany - Lower Saxony)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 8:27:05 PM

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Distance from Tokyo to Seoul

Distance is 1155 kilometers or 718 miles or 624 nautical miles

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Latitude: 35° 41' North
Longitude: 139° 42' East
Initial heading:284.2°West-northwestWest-northwest
Final heading:276.6°WestWest

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Heading from Seoul

Latitude: 37° 34' North
Longitude: 126° 59' East
Initial heading:96.6°EastEast
Final heading:104.2°East-southeastEast-southeast

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Tokyo (Japan)Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 2:44:34 AM
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Distance from Norderstedt to Paris

Distance is 758 kilometers or 471 miles or 409 nautical miles

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Heading from Norderstedt

Latitude: 53° 42' North
Longitude: 9° 60' East
Initial heading:227.6°SouthwestSouthwest
Final heading:221.6°SouthwestSouthwest

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Heading from Paris

Latitude: 48° 51' North
Longitude: 2° 21' East
Initial heading:41.6°NortheastNortheast
Final heading:47.6°NortheastNortheast

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Norderstedt (Germany - Schleswig-Holstein)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 8:16:10 PM
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Distance from Garbsen to Bergheim

Distance is 263 kilometers or 164 miles or 142 nautical miles

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Latitude: 52° 26' North
Longitude: 9° 36' East
Initial heading:232.2°SouthwestSouthwest
Final heading:229.9°SouthwestSouthwest

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Heading from Bergheim

Latitude: 50° 57' North
Longitude: 6° 39' East
Initial heading:49.9°NortheastNortheast
Final heading:52.2°NortheastNortheast

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Garbsen (Germany - Lower Saxony)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 7:58:34 PM
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Distance from Diyarbakır to Podgorica

Distance is 1849 kilometers or 1149 miles or 999 nautical miles

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Latitude: 37° 55' North
Longitude: 40° 13' East
Initial heading:292.4°West-northwestWest-northwest
Final heading:278.8°WestWest

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Latitude: 42° 26' North
Longitude: 19° 16' East
Initial heading:98.8°EastEast
Final heading:112.4°East-southeastEast-southeast

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Diyarbakır (Turkey)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 9:02:57 PM
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Distance from Hyderabad to Ürümqi

Distance is 3057 kilometers or 1900 miles or 1651 nautical miles

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Heading from Hyderabad

Latitude: 17° 22' North
Longitude: 78° 28' East
Initial heading:14.3°North-northeastNorth-northeast
Final heading:19.1°North-northeastNorth-northeast

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Heading from Ürümqi

Latitude: 43° 50' North
Longitude: 87° 37' East
Initial heading:199.1°South-southwestSouth-southwest
Final heading:194.3°South-southwestSouth-southwest

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Hyderabad (India - Telangana)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 11:12:26 PM
Ürümqi (China - Xinjiang)Saturday, July 4, 2015 at 1:42:26 AM

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Distance from Caracas to San Jose

Distance is 1884 kilometers or 1171 miles or 1017 nautical miles

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Heading from Caracas

Latitude: 10° 30' North
Longitude: 66° 54' West
Initial heading:269.6°WestWest
Final heading:266.6°WestWest

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Heading from San Jose

Latitude: 9° 56' North
Longitude: 84° 05' West
Initial heading:86.6°EastEast
Final heading:89.6°EastEast

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Caracas (Venezuela)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 1:41:22 PM
San Jose (Costa Rica)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 12:11:22 PM

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Distance from Casablanca to San Francisco

Distance is 9628 kilometers or 5983 miles or 5199 nautical miles

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Heading from Casablanca

Latitude: 33° 36' North
Longitude: 7° 37' West
Initial heading:314.0°NorthwestNorthwest
Final heading:229.3°SouthwestSouthwest

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Heading from San Francisco

Latitude: 37° 47' North
Longitude: 122° 25' West
Initial heading:49.3°NortheastNortheast
Final heading:134.0°SoutheastSoutheast

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Casablanca (Morocco)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 5:36:14 PM
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Distance from Bridgeport to Laval

Distance is 498 kilometers or 309 miles or 269 nautical miles

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Latitude: 41° 10' North
Longitude: 73° 12' West
Initial heading:355.4°NorthNorth
Final heading:355.1°NorthNorth

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Heading from Laval

Latitude: 45° 38' North
Longitude: 73° 43' West
Initial heading:175.1°SouthSouth
Final heading:175.4°SouthSouth

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Bridgeport (U.S.A. - Connecticut)Friday, July 3, 2015 at 1:20:25 PM
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John Standing Swings Cole Porter

The Pheasantry, Chelsea Sunday December 23 2012 0:00
Standing turns his attention from Noël Coward to Cole Porter for this homage showcase taking in stories and 15 songs, from 'I Get a Kick Out of You' to 'You're the Top'.
Venue name: The Pheasantry
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Leeds party crew Mono_cult have been throwing ace underground parties in warehouses, basements and clubs for a good few years, and now they've settled their hedonistic house and techno operations in London as well. Residents Matt Long, Brad Mercer and Paul Kaminski keep the beats flowing thick and fast with some great special guests mixed in. M_c, London welcomes you with open arms and dancefloor-ready legs.

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New exhibitions in London

Get your dose of culture at one of these top shows around the city

Our round-up will help you keep updated with the dizzying array of new and recently opened exhibitions in London. Think there's a great show we've missed? Tell us in the comments below.

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Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon

A byword for timeless elegance both on-screen and off, Audrey Hepburn is one of the twentieth century’s most enduring style icons. The National Portrait Gallery’s summer show charts Hepburn’s picture-perfect career, from West End chorus girl to leading lady.

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National Portrait Gallery Until Sunday October 18 2015

Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust

For a man who never really left his home in Queens, New York, Joseph Cornell conjured a sense of adventure and discovery in his brilliantly intricate shadow boxes. Considered a reclusive figure, the self-taught artist was an avid collector.

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Royal Academy of Arts Saturday July 4 2015 - Sunday September 27 2015

Tiger, Mog and Pink Rabbit: A Judith Kerr Retrospective

Judith Kerr fled Nazi Germany in 1933 aged nine years old, and began drawing as a refugee in Switzerland and France. Her first picture book, 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea', has been delighting families since it was published in 1968. This exhibition looks at Kerr's experience as a refugee settling in London and how she became an artist and storyteller.

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Jewish Museum Until Wednesday October 14 2015

Handel: A Life with Friends

Noisy neighbours are one thing but how about living next door to one of the world's most famous composers? IThis new exhibition explores the composer's domestic life at 25 Brook Street.

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Handel House Museum Until Sunday January 10 2016

Pintar Rapido

An event that asks artists to capture the spirit of London in just one day seems like the sort of challenge you'd need to be Tony Hart to relish.  The day following their creation (July 12) all the completed artworks go on sale in a public exhibition at Chelsea Town Hall.

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Chelsea Old Town Hall Saturday July 11 2015 - Sunday July 12 2015

Serpentine Galleries Pavilion

The task of transforming the lawn outside the Serpentine Gallery with a multi-purpose temporary Pavilion falls to the Spanish architectural duo SelgasCano.

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Serpentine Gallery Until Saturday October 17 2015 Free

Featuring play things designed by Ken Garland, Roger Limbrick, Patrick Rylands and Fredun Shapur, this exhibition brings together the best in British Modernist toy design from those who led the way. During the 1960s and '70s, a number of designers began to rethink the way in which children play, designing objects that would result in the best experience for them.

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Walter Knoll Until Monday July 6 2015 Free

Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening

For its only European stop, Doug Aitken’s culturally explosive extravaganza of spontaneous artistic creation will take over the Barbican Centre for one month.

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Barbican Centre Until Sunday July 26 2015

Carsten Nicolai: Unicolor

Exploring the psychology of colour perception, the German artist creates an integrated experience of colour and sound in this multi-sensory rainbow installation.

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The Vinyl Factory Space Until Sunday August 2 2015 Free
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Inkygoodness presents Beermat Characters at The Coningsby Gallery, 29th April - 4th May Beermat Characters is the latest project by Inkygoodness, inviting illustrators, artists & character designers to transform a beer mat (coaster) into a character. Showcasing the talents of over 80 artists & illustrators tasked with the challenge to transform a simple beermat into a character, our latest project will launch on Tue 30th April 2013 at the Coningsby Gallery in central London, with music, plenty of drinks on offer and a great atmosphere guaranteed! Expect a diverse selection of artworks from handmade to digital, felt plush, paper-cut outs, inked & painted, 3D sculptures & much much more!


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Martin Luther King Jr. remembered at Adorni Center in Eureka; speakers share how leader impacted their lives

Public officials, families and members of the community filled the Adorni Center on Monday to honor the life and work of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. through speech, song and prayer that encouraged people to "Be the Change."

AV Powell, president of the Eureka unit of the NAACP, told the crowd as far as the country has come, there is still more work that needs to be done because all of the slain civil rights leader's goals haven't been met.

"He foresaw a day when men, women and children would be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin," Powell said. "We're slowly and surely getting there, but we must keep working toward that goal."

Powell said too many black men are in prison, there is not equal pay for equal work, there are laws that don't give a woman the right to choose and voting needs to be considered a duty and responsibility.

Cedric Aaron, a mental health clinician at Humboldt County Juvenile Hall, said he grew up surrounded by extreme violence, drugs and poverty. He said that King helped inspire him to be the first in his family to go to college.

"My family, friends said doin' the school thing was a 'white folk thing,'" Aaron said. "It's hard to question a parent or authority figure. It was difficult, I knew in my heart that they were wrong. I believed with all my heart with Dr. King's vision, I could break that cycle and be the change."

In between remarks, the Arcata Interfaith Gospel Choir, Boys and Girls Club of the Redwoods and vocalist Donna Landry performed pieces such as "Hosanna" -- a tribute to former South African President and revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela -- and "Because We Can."

"I thought this was dignified, and had speakers and participants of all ages," Arcata resident Jerryl Lynn Rubin said. "I enjoyed the inspirational speeches that were personal. I'll go home in a more inspired place."

Rubin said she's attended the event since it was held on the stairs outside the Humboldt County courthouse decades ago.

Joe Hale, of Humboldt Hill, described Monday's festivities as a "worthy event."

"I love the fact that people can get together and celebrate community," Hale said. "I'm looking forward to next year and more people coming out."

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LONGMONT — The city has reopened Ninth Avenue between Hover Street and Airport Road, according to Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur, a spokesman for the city’s Office of Emergency Management.
 Satur said that westside stretch of 9th — one of the Longmont streets closed by last weekend’s floods — was reopened to traffic at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday.


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Bow tie leading Capitol fashion revolution

After winning favor in Assembly, the bow tie is capturing the Senate
Jimmy Vielkin, Times Union
Updated 7:31 am, Tuesday, May 28, 2013

  • Manhattan Sen. Jose Serrano, left, met British Prince Harry on a recent visit to East Harlem. Serrano said the prince told him, "I love your smart-looking bow tie." (Provided photo)

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There's a revolution stirring in the Senate's Democratic conference, led by Jose M. Serrano. It involves neckwear.

Starting earlier this year, the upper Manhattan senator began to replace the long ties that are part of the generally accepted uniform for male lawmakers, aides and lobbyists with a colorful selection of more traditional cravats. He had turned 40 and lost more than 60 pounds.

Call it a reboot, a midlife crisis, or maybe, as Serrano puts it, he just "wanted to try something new." But the lawmaker has updated his official head shot and changed his Senate website to feature a bow-tied portrait. He says he no longer dons long ties.

"Bow ties look better," Serrano said. "The long neckties can look a little sloppy. ... I think you're going to see more members coming this way."

It's starting to catch on. Particularly on Tuesdays, the peak day for Capitol activity during the legislative session, more people are opting for bow ties. Sens. Bill Perkins and Kevin Parker are regular participants, and male aides — usually younger men employed in an increasingly rare place where dress clothes are regularly required — are following their lead.

Perkins, D-Harlem, even taught his legislative director, Tom Briggs, how to tie one.

"It's become a staff unity thing," he said. "People say they'll wear a black bow tie for a formal occasion — what's more formal that going into the Senate chamber?"

Perhaps it's a stretch, then, to cast Serrano as a revolutionary. Bow ties have their roots in the garb of 17th-century Croatian mercenaries, and are still a staple of formal tuxedos (think James Bond). Wayne Lair, a lobbyist, informally claims to have started the bow tie trend in 2007, and says he now "switches it up." Many interviewees said bow ties are stereotypically more Republican (think Tucker Carlson), but Democrats have led the way at the Capitol.

Indeed, a bow tie bonanza seems to have come and gone in the Democrat-dominated state Assembly. Wayne Jackson, the chamber's longtime sergeant at arms, was once a devotee. Several years ago, dozens of members put on the ties in solidarity and posed for a picture. For some, it was too much.

"It made me look like Howdy Doody," said Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, D-Queens.

Ah, the Pee-wee Herman principle.

Others explained their preference for long ties on how the accessory matches their physique. Also cited: the combination of an aversion to clip-ons and an inability to knot a bow tie by hand. "I've never felt sufficiently Churchillian to do it in session," explained Assemblyman Chuck Lavine, D-Long Island.

"If it's later in the session, I don't want to wear a bow tie because it will accentuate my stomach," said Assemblyman Joe Lentol, D-Brooklyn, noting the often-slack health habits of lawmakers separated from their families.

Some legislators will rotate them in, including Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, D-Bronx. He took to bow ties when working as a maitre d', and said he'd love to see more people wear them.

"What you need is somebody in a high public place to start a new trend," he said. "I would like to see the governor in a bow tie, preferably with polka dots. Maybe it could signal the end of session in June."

Normally the governor favors soft-colored ties with a small, often New-York-themed print. His spokesman declined to comment.

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Dream day for Stanco

Linton High grad takes Grade I race at the Spa
Mark Singelai, Times Union
Published 9:50 pm, Saturday, July 20, 2013

  • Jockey Joel Rosario heads to the winner's circle at the Saratoga Race Course on opening day 144 July 20, 2012.  (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)  FOR IORRIZZO STORY Photo: SKIP DICKSTEIN
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Ed Stanco, Linton High class of 1967, led Princess of Sylmar back to the Saratoga winners' circle, almost overrun by friends and family who chanted, "Eddie! Eddie!"

The former Schenectady resident had achieved what he called "the life dream" entering Saturday's Coaching Club American Oaks.

Stanco won a Grade I race at the Spa.

Princess of Sylmar made a powerful four-wide move on the turn and roared to a six-length victory in the $300,000 Coaching Club for 3-year-old fillies before a crowd of 19,138.

"It's the best, what can I say?" Stanco rhapsodized. "It really is. It's just a wonderful, gratifying thing. But what's most important is, and I see the filly, she just does what she wants to do. If you keep them happy, they'll just do what they have to do, and she likes to run. She was having fun out there."

Probably not as much as her owner, who home-bred Princess of Sylmar in Pennsylvania. Stanco's previous two wins at Saratoga had been New York-breds breaking their maiden.

Stanco moved out of the Capital Region in 1979 and settled in New Jersey. He got into the racehorse business in 1979 and earned the biggest win of his career when Princess of Sylmar pulled off a 38-1 upset in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs in May.

Even that didn't quite compare to the thrill of winning a big race at the Spa in its 150th anniversary season.

"We did it," Stanco said. "We did it. We won this little race on a Saturday in this little country track called Saratoga. What a great day. What a great day. And (Princess of Sylmar) did it. We didn't do anything. She did all of it by herself."

Princess of Sylmar, who went off at 2-1, finished the 11/8-mile race in 1 minute, 51.07 seconds. She paid $6.30 to win, followed by My Happy Face in second and Marathon Lady in third.

Unlimited Budget, the filly who finished sixth in the Belmont Stakes in June, broke slowly as the 6-5 favorite and finished last in the five-horse field.

"She didn't break, and as soon as she didn't break, that was it. Over," jockey John Velazquez said.

Todd Pletcher trained both the winner and the last-place horse.

He said Princess of Sylmar's performance validated her long-shot victory in the Kentucky Oaks.

"I think everyone kind of lost sight of the fact that going into the Kentucky Oaks, it was billed as the best Oaks we've seen in 25 years, this filly wins it and gets virtually no respect," Pletcher said. "I think today she put herself at the top of the leaderboard, and now everyone understands that the Kentucky Oaks was a real race."

Javier Castellano sat at the back of the pack on Princess of Sylmar through a half-mile as My Happy Face set the early pace in a reasonable time of 48.98 seconds.

Castellano asked for more from Princess of Sylmar, a daughter of Majestic Warrior out of Storm Dixie. She responded by pulling even with the frontrunners by the five-sixteenth pole. From there, the conclusion of the race was anticlimactic as she pulled away.

"I had a beautiful trip," Castellano said. "The way I handicapped the race, I really liked her, and Todd gave me a lot of confidence in the horse. ... She's a come-from-behind horse. The biggest thing is it was a small field today, and she was able to come from behind."

Stanco will have a chance to live his dream a second time if Princess of Sylmar runs as scheduled in the Grade I Alabama at Saratoga on Aug. 17.

For now, Saturday was enough for Stanco.

"It was a big steppingstone," he said. "Everyone said to me, 'Is this a prep (for the Alabama)?' My response to that was, a Grade I race is not a prep and by the way, no one gave the email to Princess. What can I say, it's phenomenal. She's on her way."

msingelais@timesunion.com 518-454-5509 @MarkSingelais

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