Landfill Management and Remediation Practices in New Jersey, United States

A 5-month-old boy died of asphyxia from airway obstruction caused by his pacifier. It had been imported from Spain by La Cibeles Inc. of Union City, New Jersey, and had been marketed in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Florida, and Puerto Rico under the brand names Fauna, Flower, Navy, and Texas. It sold for about 50 cents. It is attractive in design, but has characteristics that make it dangerous. Following our report to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission,* the pacifier was recalled. We have been able to find only one similar case in the literature.1 The unnecessary tragedy was due to a preventable hazard and both individual and governmental action should avoid its recurrence.

Of Digital Images and Digital Media

Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions ◽

10.1525/nr.2018.21.3.74 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 74-102

Author(s):

Nicole Karapanagiotis

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New Jersey ◽

Digital Media ◽

Digital Images ◽

The United States ◽

Digital Marketing ◽

The Public ◽

Media Imagery

This article is a theoretical and ethnographic investigation of the role of marketing and branding within the contemporary ISKCON movement in the United States. In it, I examine the digital marketing enterprises of two prominent ISKCON temples: ISKCON of New Jersey and ISKCON of D.C. I argue that by attending to the vastly different ways in which these temples present and portray ISKCON online—including the markedly different media imagery by which they aim to draw the attention of the public—we can learn about an ideological divide concerning marketing within American ISKCON. This divide, I argue, highlights different ideas regarding how potential newcomers become attracted to ISKCON. It also illuminates an unexplored facet of the heterogeneity of American ISKCON, principally in terms of the movement’s public face.

Estimation of the Probability That Guillain-Barre Syndrome was Caused by the Swine Flu Vaccine: US Experience (1976–77)

Medicine Science and the Law ◽

10.1177/002580248402400110 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 61-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Richard L. Greenstreet

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Puerto Rico ◽

New Jersey ◽

Statistical Method ◽

The United States ◽

Guillain Barre Syndrome ◽

Swine Flu ◽

Guillain Barré Syndrome ◽

Flu Vaccine ◽

Guillain Barré

A statistical method was presented for determining the probability that cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) among residents of the United States and Puerto Rico who participated in the 1976–77 swine flu vaccine programme were due to the vaccine. It was determined that the vaccine (A/New Jersey) was the most likely cause of GBS if the onset was within five weeks after vaccination. From the sixth to the tenth week after vaccination, the association was unlikely. After the tenth week, the association between the vaccine and GBS was negative.