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The original packaging used the phrase "Ayds Reducing Plan vitamin and mineral Candy"; a later version used the phrase "appetite suppressant candy". The active ingredient was originally benzocaine, [1] presumably to reduce the sense of taste to reduce eating, later changed in the candy (as reported by The New York Times) to phenylpropanolamine. [2]
Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; [4] it is headquartered in New York. [5] Founded in 2002 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, [6] Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, [7] vector graphics, and illustrations, [8] with around 10 million video clips and music tracks ...
Dallas Buyers Club is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both the etiology and the treatment of HIV/AIDS are poorly understood and its sufferers subject to stigmatization.
For most of its life, Ayd Mill Road was un-striped, and very little traffic was seen on it. [2] In the summer of 1992, the Saint Paul public works department temporarily linked Ayd Mill Road to I-35E to help mitigate traffic congestion during the completion of the interstate in the downtown area, after which the link was barricaded.
AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance was a public health information campaign begun in 1986 by the UK Government in response to the rise of HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [4] The government believed that millions of people could become infected, so newspaper adverts were published, a leaflet was sent to every home in the UK, [2] [5] [6] [7] and, most memorably, a television advertising ...
The waste management hierarchy indicates an order of preference for action to reduce and manage waste, and is usually presented diagrammatically in the form of a pyramid. [3] The hierarchy captures the progression of a material or product through successive stages of waste management , and represents the latter part of the life-cycle for each ...
The process of feature selection aims to find a suitable subset of the input variables (features, or attributes) for the task at hand.The three strategies are: the filter strategy (e.g., information gain), the wrapper strategy (e.g., accuracy-guided search), and the embedded strategy (features are added or removed while building the model based on prediction errors).
Reducing tax subsidies for corporations, particularly in the oil and gas industries; Ending overseas contingency defense spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; Reducing defense spending overall and reducing the U.S. global defense footprint; Investing in a jobs program; and; Implementing a public option to reduce healthcare costs. [122]