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When the rolls were counted Tuesday morning, Tonganoxie school numbers were up.
Superintendent Richard Erickson said a preliminary estimate showed the district's enrollment could wind up with close to two dozen more students than last year.
"My hope is that as of September 20, we'll see an increase of 20 students, which is nice steady growth," Erickson said.
As of Tuesday, the tentative enrollment count at the beginning of the 2003-2004 school year was 1,548. The audited student count for the 2002-2003 school year was 1,527.
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On the night of my 32nd birthday, my husband and I enjoyed a delicious dinner while on vacation in Orvieto, Italy. To complement my pasta, I enjoyed a single glass of red wine, my first since learning I was pregnant four months earlier. Even now my indulgence inspires periodic pangs of guilt: Did I stunt my son's potential by sipping that Sangiovese?
Nobody questions the notion that heavy drinking during pregnancy is harmful. It can cause facial abnormalities, central nervous system problems and stunted growth. But evidence regarding the effects of light or occasional drinking is mixed. In five epidemiological studies published in 2012, medical psychologist Erik Mortensen of the University of Copenhagen and his colleagues found that five-year-old children born to women who had one to four drinks a week during pregnancy displayed no deficits in general intelligence, attention or other types of higher-order thinking. On the other hand, in 2011 psychiatrist Nancy Day of the University of Pittsburgh and her colleagues reportedthat teens born to women who averaged more than one drink a week during pregnancy were twice as likely as those born to nondrinkers to have conduct disorder, a condition characterized by theft, deceit or violence.
The truth is hard to discern because research on the issue is fraught with problems. The ideal type of experiment is not ethical: scientists cannot randomly assign one group of women to drink during pregnancy and compare the outcome with those instructed to abstain. As a result, they must compare what happens to women whochoose to drink during pregnancy with those who do not, and these women often differ in important ways. All things considered, having an occasional drink during those nine months—say, one or two a week—probably poses little, if any, harm. Still, some experts warn, light or sporadic drinking may have effects we do not know how to measure.
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The thorniest problems with this research involve the ways in which women who drink during pregnancy differ from those who do not. A woman who drinks moderately or heavily is more likely to smoke, use drugs and physically abuse her child than a nondrinker, all of which could worsen her son's or daughter's prognosis independent of alcohol. This woman might also have a genetic background predisposing her—and her children—to behavioral problems.
Meanwhile women who drink lightly while pregnant may have protective characteristics. Compared with abstainers, they "are often the more affluent moms, the more educated moms, and the smarter moms as well," perhaps because they belong to a higher socioeconomic class than teetotalers, says epidemiologist Ron Gray of the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. This effect could explain why, in a 2010 study, clinical psychologist Monique Robinson and her colleagues at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, Australia, discovered that children of mothers who drank two to six drinks a week while pregnant were less likely to have behavioral problems at age 14 than mothers who abstained. As with most such studies, the researchers tried to account for systematic differences in the groups, but as Robinson acknowledges, "these unmeasured factors may have influenced our results."
Another complexity: most studies assess maternal drinking through interviews, and pregnant women might lie about or underestimate their consumption out of embarrassment or shame. Lower estimates can mask harmful effects if they cause light drinkers to be incorrectly categorized as abstainers and put in the comparison group. They might, however, inflate the perceived risk if heavy-drinking mothers of children with deficits get incorrectly categorized as light drinkers.
Moreover, definitions of light, moderate and heavy drinking can vary enormously. Investigators who consider light drinking to be up to a drink a day tend to conclude that the practice is more harmful than those who say light drinking means up to one drink a week. (The alcohol content in "one drink" can also differ.) And many studies are based on an "average" number of drinks per time interval, which can lump together dramatically different drinking patterns—for example, imbibing one a week and binging on five in one night in a month. And yet, Day says, "there's a lot of literature that shows that binge drinking may have a bigger effect." One 2009 study, for example, tied a single binge during pregnancy to hyperactivity and attention problems in children. Most studies of periodic light drinking, on the other hand, find that it has no effects.
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Because individual studies so often conflict, coming to a consensus about how much alcohol—if any—is safe for an expectant mother is a tall order. Nevertheless, one psychologist couple, Sandra and Joseph Jacobson of Wayne State University, has assessed a good deal of the published literature in an attempt to answer the question. They say that no obvious neurobiological deficits have been detected in children whose mothers consume less than one drink a day during pregnancy. Still, the data do not prove that a drink a day in pregnancy is without effect, Sandra Jacobson warns; it could be that researchers have not been looking at the right outcomes or that their tools are too insensitive to pick up any changes.
Gray believes the latter to be true. Although he and his colleagues have found that moderate drinking during pregnancy (which they define as an average of two to six drinks a week) has no overall effect on child IQ at age eight—the kids of the drinking moms in his cohort actually had higher IQs than the abstainers' kids—they did find, using a new genetic technique, some potential for harm.
Humans have multiple genes for proteins that break alcohol down into harmless by-products. Some people have mutations in these genes, causing alcohol to linger in their bloodstream. In a November 2012 paper Gray and his colleagues reported that the more mutations children of maternal drinkers have in these genes, the lower their IQs are. (The effect is weak; the IQs of children with four mutations were only 3.5 points lower than those of kids with two.) More important, however, the mutations have no effect on the IQ of children born to nondrinking women, suggesting that there is at least a minimal danger to prenatal drinking for certain individuals.
Because of such findings and all the other uncertainties, policy makers are unlikely to ever give the green light to occasional drinking during pregnancy. "We will never, ever, ever know how much is safe for every individual," says biologist Kathleen K. Sulik of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. What is harmless for a woman of one race, weight, nutritional status and genetic background may be dangerous for another. That said, the literature is reassuring to the many women who socially drank before realizing they were pregnant and to those who, like me, had one celebratory glass.
Better Safe Than Sorry. K. K. Sulik, S. K. O'Leary-Moore and E. P. Riley in British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 119, No. 10, pages 1159–1161; September 2012.
The Effect of Different Alcohol Drinking Patterns in Early to Mid Pregnancy on the Child's Intelligence, Attention, and Executive Function.U. S. Kesmodel et al. in British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 119, No. 10, pages 1180–1190; September 2012.
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BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — It was almost a driving disaster déjà vu on Interstate 10 Friday morning.
A crash on the eastbound side of the freeway near Essen Lane forced crews to close the interstate just before 5:30 a.m. Unlike Wednesday's tanker crash, I-10 was only closed for about an hour of Friday's commute.
The DOTD Geaux Wider Program says there is not much it can do to stop these wrecks other than to tell drivers to be more careful in construction zones.
"They pose a much greater hazard, obviously," said Bill Grass, a spokesman for Geaux Wider. "Not only because of other motorists, but also the workers, themselves. So we tell the motorists, 'please, obey the speed limits, watch out for construction vehicles, watch out for workers, just be on high alert in these areas.'"
Both closures occurred in the same spot, which happens to be the start of the construction. The speed limit also drops from 60 miles per hour to 50. Geaux Wider, though, doesn't know if that's to blame for the wrecks.
"It's hard to say what it is," said Grass. "It could be motorists traveling eastbound just getting into that construction area. But of course, it is a busy section of I-10, also."
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Start posting "brillant" warning signs on the I-10 east from Lobdell and the west bound lanes of I-12 providing informations about the construction, the danger of the construction and the reduction of the speed limit. Third, increase police presence through out the construction site and issue tickets. Fourth, place signs making the drivers aware of the cost of such violations, i.e, minimum speeding fine $500, etc. One will find that when the cost of an infraction is posted the public will com
"The DOTD Geaux Wider Program says there is not much it can do to stop these wrecks other than to tell drivers to be more careful in construction zones." What a pathetic reply to such a dangerous situation. There are many things that could be done to reduce the occurence of accidents. First, lower the speed limit to 35 MPH at most 40 MPH. After all, and having been a commerical driver for years, anyone knows, speed kills. Second, post additional warnings begining before the "Big Bridge".


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I am looking for a wall mount hair dryer with integrated GFCI and would like to hard wire without plugging in to an outlet and not break any codes :) Would appreciate some recommendations on the make/model and instructions to hard wire.
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Thanks, but I have done the obvious research. I would like some recommendations from folks who may have gone through something similar.
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Well not quite. First off, the rule on disconnects is *NOT* "in the same room" but rather "within sight of the appliance." Second, the unit switch can be the disconnecting means in many cases as long as there's an additional disconnecting means elsewhere (which can be a circuit breaker).
Most definitely if they disconnect all the ungrounded connections (i.e., the hots).
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A unit switch(es) with a marked-off position that is a part of an appliance and disconnects all ungrounded conductors shall be permitted as the disconnecting means required by this article where other means for disconnection are provided in occupancies specified in 422.34(A) through (D).
(A) Multifamily Dwellings. In multifamily dwellings, the other disconnecting means shall be within the dwelling unit, or on the same floor as the dwelling unit in which the appliance is installed, and shall be permitted to control lamps and other appliances.
(B) Two-Family Dwellings. In two-family dwellings, the other disconnecting means shall be permitted either inside or outside of the dwelling unit in which the appliance is installed. In this case, an individual switch or circuit breaker for the dwelling unit shall be permitted and shall also be permitted to control lamps and other appliances.
(C) One-Family Dwellings. In one-family dwellings, the service disconnecting means shall be permitted to be the other disconnecting means.
(D) Other Occupancies. In other occupancies, the branch-circuit switch or circuit breaker, where readily accessible for servicing of the appliance, shall be permitted as the other disconnecting means.
If it were me, I'd buy a good quality, plug-in hair dryer and be done with it. You can plug it in wherever in the house you want, you don't have to be worried about how to be code compliant, and you don't have to re-wire anything when it fails. If you want it to stow away like a hard wired one, there are plenty of wall mount dryers available.
I have ended up ordering this unit and you will notice it has an in built afci and I can disconnect from the unit.
If I follow the thread by ronnatilie, this would not need a disconnect switch? The disconnect would be the circuit breaker
Make sure you ordered the -040 model as it comes both hardwired and cordless. By the way, it has NEITHER an AFCI or GFCI in it. It has an ALCI which for practical purposes of a builtin unit meets the GFCI requirement (it lacks the ground-to-neutrla fault detection of a GFCI).
The ALCI switch in the base meets the disconnect requirement (provided you've got the breaker elsewhere as described in the NEC excerpt above).
I have ended up ordering this unit and you will notice it has an in built afci and I can disconnect from the unit.
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@jasondesante: Then brush up on your grammar.
The question that this entire situation brings up is "What is Microsoft's certification process for?" The certification process takes weeks and they didn't catch the problem, so what was that time spent on? If they say your first patch is free and then they certify it even though it has an issue with it, that seems like it was Microsoft's fuck up, or they let it through so that they could get paid on top of their cut of what the game makes. It's a shame because the game is fantastic but as usual Microsoft is out for self, and not sensible or flexible with the rules and guidelines they put in place.
I absolutely LOVE that they gave their own comparison shot.
"We'll show you a picture of different thing and you'll see how different they are."
@Laivasse: While I don't necessarily agree with your issues with the "ludonarrative dissonance," otherwise you make some pretty valid points. I agree that the writing of Bissell's ilk, that is so rampant in the games industry just plain wreaks of the kind of panic inducing "journalism" that you typically see on FOX News. It is laser focused on being critical of certain things that are simply inherent to video games while not actually offering anything constructive or anything of any real substance to back up his claims. I think the part of his article that was supposed to really make people sit up and take notice, was that he said he was "mouthy" and "agitated" after having played it, and I don't know about you but I'm not buying it. If games have this kind of an effect on him maybe he shouldn't playing them. If what he says is to be believed then he is having trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality and should probably seek some professional help. It's articles like these that I truly believe do more harm than good to an industry trying to make the next step into mainstream relevancy.
@Jayzilla: Oh but there have been very big consequences for doing that underhanded shit. They lost that court case and if rumors are true it cost them a cool billion. And even if rumors are only half true, That is a TON of money to lose.
@slot9: Considering he's had little, if anything, to do with Zelda since Ocarina, probably nothing. With Skyward Sword he oversaw the Wii Motion Plus integration, but not so much on the actual game.
@jillsandwich: I'd be tired of working on all the crap they have him working on too.
@GalacticPunt: Its has a very "we could be dead at any moment" kind of feel to it, which is pretty fucking morose for Miyamoto.


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Posted 01/31/2012 5:19 pm
I'd be all over the 1/10 gold dragon if it weren't for the darn Provincial sales tax. I think I'm in one of the 2 provinces in all of Canada to have to pay PST on bullion coins from the mint :(
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The 1oz cougar was released 3-4 months ago. It has not appreciated much over melt value.
That's because it hasn't sold out yet
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How much do you guys and gals think a complete set of silver maples all mint sealed would go for? 1988 - 2012?
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i honestly don't think it'd be too much more than if they were housed in capsules. The mylar they come sealed in does not prevent bag marks, nor are they air tight after just a few years (i've seen late 90s sealed silver maples tainted to kingdom come more than once). Silver Maples, especially when we're not talking about the privy marked or proof finished ones, are bullion coins no matter how you package them.
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@SilverBug: Thanks for the pointer. Looks enticing. If they drop it another 100 bucks I am in for sure.
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I am curious if anyone has an opinion on why or how
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^Despite the mishap with the Lunar series, the
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I would keep an eye on the "new" proof sets, the price may hold them back but I think they will at least hold their value but I'm guessing they will start looking more attractive this time next year.
We need to revisit this topic in the fall, time will tell.
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^^ Agreed that the
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Saw the proof set at my local dealer. I think it looks really nice especially the penny. In regards to the price, it does seem expensive, but when you compare with the proof sets of 2010 and last year's, it's about right I suppose. $159.95 for the Voyageur proof set and $179.95 for the Silver Dollar proof set, my guess is this new set will hold it's value, but won't appreciate much due to the 20,000 mintage. Should make it 10,000 instead imo.
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Better public awareness, efficient policing, and readiness to accept and register complaints are the reasons behind Kerala emerging on top in terms of offences coming under the ambit of the Indian Penal Code for 2012, senior police officers have said. (The figures were released by the National Crime Records Bureau recently).
Kerala's top position should be seen as the strength of the State police, Additional Director General of Police A. Hemachandran told The Hindu.
Herculean task
Registration of first information reports (FIRs) is a herculean task. In other parts of the country it was a rather slow process, but, in Kerala, the statistics said, the police was always ready to register FIRs, he said.
The State police was also registering suo motu a good number of IPC cases and in 2012 more than 2 lakh cases pertaining to drunk and rash driving were registered across the State.
A large number of cases were registered against consumption of alcohol in public places. All these contributed to the number of cases going up, he said.
On Kochi topping the IPC crime rate among cities in the country, City Police Commissioner K.G. James said it was a positive indication.
It showed that the Kochi police were acting and more and more people from the city were coming forward to report crimes, Mr. James said.
The figure indicated the number of cases registered by the police.
Crimes against women
The police had suo motu registered a good number of IPC cases, including 18,400 cases under Section 279 of the IPC for rash driving, he said. Criminal cases had come down in the city. Crimes against women in Kochi during 2012 were the lowest among the five cities of the State.
Robberies and housebreaks had also come down, in comparison to 2011. There was a slight rise in the number of cheating cases during 2012 compared to the previous year, he said.
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- La Playa Cabernet Sauvignon Estate 2013 Product #28796 (In Stock)
As soon as we tasted this fantastic value, we knew many of you would love it. From first sniff to last note of the finish, its a juicy, red currant and cherry Cabernet Sauvignon with a bit of spice, a hint of herb and just the right dusting of dark chocolate. The round texture, generous flavors, and grape sweeet-tart and spiced cherry finish make it easy to pair with food and a great Tuesday supper and Saturday party red. If you enjoyed past red values like Owl House or Chilensis, this could be your next big thing for not many bucks at all.
- Estacion Cabernet Sauvignon Chile 2012 Product #29295 (In Stock)
Estacion is the even better value line from the solid Chilean value winery Estampa. It's not easy taming Chilean Cabernet's sometimes aggressive herbal aromas/flavors without veering off into over-ripeness or needing high-toast oak to add a little depth. So, this all tank, all Cabernet Sauvignon, is a wonderful surprise! It opens with savory aromas of black cherry, currant, dried herb and cocoa. The flavors pulse through on the palate where the texture is creamy but the cherry/currant fruit and mocha flavors stay clear and clean. A nice squirt of tangy cherry acidity lends brightness to the currant and chocolate flavors that linger over fine, soft, tannins at the end. Very tasty burger/cookout/cocktail Cab at a very, VERY, pleasant price!
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From cool, high-altitude, vineyards at the base of the Andes, this Sauvignon Blanc delivers plenty of ripeness balanced by juicy, fresh, citrusy acidity. Aromas of white grapefruit, melon, orange zest and fresh grass carryout over to a big mouthful of juicy, zesty, flavors and mouthwatering acidity. Drink it cold by the pool or let it warm up a bit and enjoy with salad, poultry, or cheese.
- Vina Maquis Carmenere 2011 Product #29419 (In Stock)
Decant this classic Carmenere and enjoy with beef or lamb!
"Aromas of bitter cherry and blackcurrant are complemented by subtle floral and white pepper nuances. Offers tangy black and blue fruit flavors, plus hints of sweet chewing tobacco and cracked pepper that gain strength with air. The peppery quality comes back on the finish, which is firmed by youthful, well-knit tannins." Vinous 88 points
- Vina Maquis Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 Product #29420 (In Stock)
A nice touch of maturity here, but still plenty of fresh fruit. Try this with a lean grilled steak and lots of herbs!
"A bit lactic and green on the nose, but only at first. With time, it becomes more floral and expressively fruity. Feels compact and chewy, with dark-berry flavors offset by chocolate and peppery spice. Finishes with coffee, chocolate and crusty accents."Wine Enthusiast 89 points
- Vina Maquis Viola 2009 Product #29468 (In Stock)
Here's a stunning blend of Chile's unique Carmenere blended with 15% Cabernet Franc. Carmenere gives the wine loads of dark red fruit - black plum, cherry, and raspberry - exotic spice, and a rich, voluptuous, texture. The Cabernet Franc provides lift to the aromas and flavors and adds grace notes of crushed herb, tobacco, and black pepper. Powerful and very deep, it finishes firm and rich with dark fruit, herb, and floral notes lingering. A "wow" wine to enjoy with rich foods or on its own.
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Anyone have a Samsung induction range?
I am looking at induction freestanding ranges. When I go to the stores to look they for the most part have one kind, or show you an electric range and say that it will be mainly like this, or just pictures on the internet. I like the pictures of the Samsungs, but am nervous to go on just pics!
I do not have one, but looked pretty hard at the Samsung NE597NOPBSR last summer when I was stove shopping. Most of the postings here have been about the previous model, the FTQ307 which has a different stove-top layout but used similar components. Have you seen these threads?
There have been some discussions of the NE59_NOPBSR line of ranges. Here are some links to GW threads.
You also might try looking at the "cookware" forum on chowhound as several posters seem to have recently purchased on the current Samung induction stoves. Here's a link to one discussion there:
I have one, but only because it was $500 at Lowes (discontinued). I like the way it looks, and the oven works well. The rangetop also works pretty well, but has its quirks - for instance, when I turn one of the burners on to 8, it often resets itself to 5.5. Easy enough to turn back up, but sometimes annoying. In general, I would buy it again, but might be more annoyed by its quirks if I had paid $2K.


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Simple meals with fresh and tasty fisch. But a bit expensive.
The atmosphere is nice and warm welcome. The service is slow.
Over the past several years I have dined at Borwin several times and it is always a wonderful experience. Both the food and service I have found to always be above reproach.
Ended up here when Rosmarino could not fit us in. The restaurant has tables outside, on the dock, in a glassed-in veranda and inside the actual building. The waitress was very friendly and accommodating and the substantial menu offered German/italian food with a focus on fish. We shared some antipasto and then had a good pasta that unfortunately did not...
The "Surf & Turf" was tasty, served hot and appeared on our table at the speed of lightening. The unusual potato roulade stuffed with pesto was amazing. Great view from the "verandah", the River Münde flowing out to the Baltic. Inexpensive and delicious....value for money.
Been to Borwin few times.Undoubtedly one of the best seafood restaurant in MV state. Excellent soup and fish selections. Though the service can be improved. Less smiling and less conversing waiters except the one guy who wasn't in a waiter uniform, could probably be the owner or the manager. Great food for good value, service average.
Although we booked the table was poor and the food nothing special. It was busy but we couldn't see why and the staff were not the friendliest in town. There are much better and better value places nearby.
In Rostock just for one night, we decided to try this well reviewed restaurant. We were very happy with our choice. The staff was very accomodating, we hadn't reserved but they still found us table. The fish soup was superb and the cod was excellent, fresh and well cooked. The rest of the meal was equally good and tasty. If...
On the river in Rostock this is a charming indoor/outdoor restaurant. We had occasion to sit outside on a sun dappled July afternoon watching the fishing boats deliver their daily catch. And that's the deal: Borwin's blackboards tell the story. The fresh fish caught that day are listed with their market price. You tell the waiter how you'd like whichever...
I live in Germany, so I have come to understand that service is still a foreign concept here at times. However, Borwin took this to inexcusable levels.
The problem, I fear, is that this restaurant attracts so many guests that the staff are beyond caring. The food may be decent - as it should be at EUR 25 per dish...
This place is located in the harbor area of Rostock. it doesn't look like muck on the outside but the fish is excellant. We ate outside they have a nice area for that. When the menu says check the black table for fish of the day, they mean the blackboard.
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The publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader penned an editorial attacking the Obama administration's response to the ongoing Ebola crisis and suggested the president apply a travel ban on the affected countries, advice that has been roundly rejected by major healthcare and infectious disease experts as detrimental to relief efforts.
In an October 7 editorial, Joseph W. McQuaid blasted the administration as "incompetent" for relying on screening to prevent the spread of Ebola and instead suggested that a general travel ban to the region be administered:
Sending American soldiers to West Africa to assist with the Ebola epidemic makes sense only if it helps contain the disease over there. That would include making as certain as possible that those troops are protected while there and properly quarantined when they return home.
As for allowing travelers from affected West African nations to enter the United States at this time, that is crazy. It is yet another example of the most incompetent President we have ever seen.
Screening for symptoms of a deadly infectious disease that may not show up for weeks is not the answer. A travel ban to and from West Africa is what is needed, now.
McQuaid and other right-wing pundits who have called for a travel ban are ignoring experts who say a ban would actually impede Ebola relief efforts. The heads of the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, and independent advisers to the World Health Organization (WHO), all argue that reactionary measures such as a travel ban are ineffectual and could actually destabilize affected countries, worsening the spread of the virus. The WHO, advocating against a travel ban in October 2014, explained that while exit screening is not 100 percent effective, "completion of a screening questionnaire and testing for the presence of fever represent the best available indicators of risk."
On September 30, California became the first state to ban the use of plastic bags in stores, leading to a barrage of misinformation from various media outlets claiming the ban would actually hurt the environment. However, these contrarian claims are undermined by research showing that previous bans and taxes have reduced energy use and litter, while doing no harm to the economy.
Georgia pundit and anti-immigration activist Phil Kent recently attacked Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn as a "female airhead," refusing to apologize after a co-panelist called on him to do so for the "offensive" remark.
Kent is the executive director of the virulently anti-immigrant hate group, Americans for Immigration Control (AIC), and previously worked for the Augusta Chronicle and as press secretary for former Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC). He's a sitting panelist on The Georgia Gang, a Sunday political talk show in Atlanta.
As first highlighted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kent lobbed sexist attacks at the state's female Democratic Senate candidate on the October 5 edition of The Georgia Gang, calling Nunn a "female airhead" and "absolutely unqualified on foreign policy." Even after a co-panelist said Kent should apologize for his comments, Kent refused:
As pressure to act on a proposal to expand gun background checks in Pennsylvania builds in the state legislature, an error published by Harrisburg NBC affiliate WGAL is providing fodder to the bill's opponents.
Pennsylvania currently only requires buyers of handguns to undergo a criminal background check. Purchasers of long guns such as shotguns and rifles -- including military-style assault weapons -- can buy these weapons without a background check in "private sales." H.B. 1010 would extend the background check requirement to long guns.
Gun violence prevention group Ceasefire PA recently visited the legislature to lobby for the bill. In support of the bill, Ceasefire PA has argued that the proportion of murders with firearms other than handguns in Pennsylvania has more than doubled since 1998 and that long guns are disproportionality used to kill police officers.
In a September 16 article, WGAL sloppily attempted to share Ceasefire PA's argument for expanded background checks, but instead misstated the nature and year of the claim that Ceasefire PA has made:
Cease Fire says FBI figures show the number of murders committed with long guns has doubled since 1996.
In fact, Ceasefire had argued that the proportion of murders committed with guns other than handguns has increased. According to a September joint report from Ceasefire PA and Center for American Progress Action Fund, FBI data indicates that this figure has increased since 1998 from 8 percent to 21 percent:
The Washington Post reported this week that WJLA, ABC's Washington, D.C., affiliate, has taken a "subtle but noticeable turn to the right" since being taken over by the Sinclair Broadcasting Group. This conservative tilt was on full display this week when the channel ran a news package promoting a baseless conspiracy theory about Benghazi from reporter Sharyl Attkisson.
The Washington Post piece highlighted the concerns of some staff members of local ABC affiliate WJLA, that following the finalization of the sale to Sinclair in August 2014, "some of the stories ordered by Sinclair on a 'must-run' basis don't meet the station's long tradition of non-partisan reporting." One factor in this shift to conservative partisan reporting was announced in July prior to the sale, when Sinclair hired discredited journalist Sharyl Attkisson as an "independent freelance reporter" to "focus on stories that follow the money and waste watch type of investigations."
However, prior to the September 17 opening hearing of the House Benghazi Special Committee, Attkisson ran a dubious report for Sinclair that appeared on WJLA highlighting the unverifiable claims of former State Department employee Raymond Maxwell alleging that some documents were intentionally withheld from the Accountability Review Board investigating the terrorist attacks in Benghazi:
The same day Attkisson's report ran on WJLA, Attkisson appeared on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends where she reiterated the report's unsubstantiated accusations. Host Steve Doocy lamented that only a handful of outlets such as Fox and the Daily Signal -- the Heritage Foundation website to which Attkisson occasionally contributes -- were covering this latest so-called "Benghazi bombshell." Attkisson concluded the segment by mentioning that her report was also broadcast to "maybe 30 million local news viewers" through Sinclair's affiliate stations.
Although Sinclair's support of right-wing misinformation has been widely documented and criticized for many years, its increasing influence in local media bodes ill for objective journalism at stations like WJLA.
The textbooks that Texas adopts influence those that are chosen by districts across the U.S., which makes it all the more worrying that several textbooks under consideration by the state misrepresent what scientists know about climate change. The distortions in these textbooks mirror the misinformation that has been pushed in Texas media that has contributed to this dangerous ignorance.
A recent review by the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) found that several textbooks under consideration by the Texas Board of Education, which includes numerous members who deny global warming, cast doubt on the basic fact that carbon pollution is driving climate change. National Journal explained that since "Texas is the second-largest market in the U.S. for textbooks after California," the textbooks chosen by the board could affect what publishers sell to states across the country.
Some of the misleading claims in these textbooks mirror the misinformation that has been pushed in the state's local media. For example, one textbook presents claims from the Heartland Institute, a climate "skeptic" organization that once compared those that "believe" in global warming to the Unabomber and in the 1990s denied the science demonstrating the dangers of secondhand smoke, as equally credible to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which assembles hundreds of scientists to review thousands of peer-reviewed articles on climate change. Some Texas media have similarly treated the Heartland Institute as equally or even more credible than the world's top scientists. For example, a news reporter for the Houston talk radio station KTRH hyped a Heartland Institute report when it was released in April 2014 with the headline "New Report Debunks Climate Change," and in May 2014 turned to the group to rebut an actual scientific report on climate change that was reviewed by a National Academy of Sciences panel. An on-air host at KTRH has also called global warming a "scam."
Other news outlets in Texas have also misrepresented climate science. For example, an East Texas Fox affiliate, KFXK, aired a commentary on September 9 that falsely claimed Arctic sea ice has "expanded":
A group of right-wing news sites coordinated across the U.S. are baselessly pushing a conspiracy theory that the Environmental Protection Agency has been hiding new maps that reveal an "alarming" power grab. But the maps of U.S. waterways were simply updated from versions created during the Bush administration, and are helping the agency keep drinking water safe more efficiently.
Earlier this year, the EPA proposed clarifying which waterways are under the protection of the Clean Water Act, as companies have been able to pollute "beyond the law" due to legal confusion. Conservative media have been accusing the EPA of attempting "the biggest land grab ever" with this revision, even though the clarification will not add any new waterways compared to the EPA's historical authority -- in fact, it will cover fewer bodies of water than it did under President Ronald Reagan.
In line with this conservative media narrative, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) accused the EPA on August 26 of hiding maps that would allow them to advance the planned revision in order "to control a huge amount of private property across the country." Rep. Smith's claims are being uncritically touted by Watchdog.org, a conservative news website with state bureaus across the nation. Watchdog.org's Colorado bureau stated that the maps "graphically show the increase reach [sic] of the EPA's regulatory authority," including a map for Colorado they called "particularly alarming." Their North Dakota bureau published an article claiming that a landowner is already experiencing "the federal government attempting to regulate wetlands that aren't always wet." And an article from their Maryland bureau was boldly headlined: "Maps reveal EPA water grab in Maryland," going on to state that "the Maryland map plainly shows how much more authority the rule would give over bodies of water in the state of Maryland."
However, the maps, which were created during the Bush administration and recently revised to reflect new data, are not intended to show the scope of the EPA's jurisdiction, but will provide a scientific tool for the EPA to better understand which water bodies need protection. An EPA spokesperson explained to the Washington Examiner:
Let us be very clear -- these maps have nothing to do with EPA's proposed rule or any other regulatory purpose. They were first created during the Bush administration to identify waters that would be vulnerable as a result of a 2001 Supreme Court case and pending litigation. The maps were subsequently updated to reflect new data and a 2006 Supreme Court decision.
The agency added in a response on their website that the maps "do not show the scope of waters" to be regulated but "show generally the location" of water bodies and "serve as a tool for visualizing how water flows across our nation and in regions of this country," and will ultimately help to "reduce leg work, saving time and money." Furthermore, the width of the waterways was distorted on the maps for ease of use by water resource managers "mak[ing] it seem like water is more prevalent than it really is."
Jon Devine, attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), stated on the NRDC's blog that "Only in the House of Representatives and the any-government-is-bad-government press could an expert agency having a map prepared from another expert agency's public data be a reason for hysteria."
Devine's statement was prescient. The Watchdog.org bureaus are a project of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, which advocates "free markets" and "limited government," according to its president. The Franklin Center, which claims to provide 10 percent of daily reporting from state capitals and owns at least 55 news sites around the country, aims to "expose corruption and incompetence in government." Their funding comes almost completely from Donors Trust -- of which the Koch brothers are top contributors -- also known as the "Dark-Money ATM" of the right wing.
Devine stated in an email to Media Matters that the media's concern over the EPA's maps characterize the "bogus" rhetoric of calling the rule unprecedented:
People are using distorted maps to distort what the administration's Clean Water Protection Rule would do, but they can't escape one fact that shows how bogus all of the rhetoric is - if this proposal were finalized, fewer water bodies would be protected by the Clean Water Act than was the case during the Reagan administration. Because this proposal focuses on waters that science shows are important to people's health and well-being, it is critical that a strong rule be finalized as soon as possible.
A Media Matters analysis found that four major broadcast television stations in New York City gave disproportionate coverage to crime stories involving African-American suspects over the past three months. The stations' late-night news broadcasts on weeknights covered murder, theft, and assault cases in which African-Americans were suspects at a notably higher rate than the rate at which African-Americans have historically been arrested for those crimes in New York City.
While many national outlets are dismissing the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry as political payback, Texas journalists warn that such claims are misguided, incomplete, and the product of a "rush to judgment."
On August 15, news broke that Perry was being indicted for "abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant," both of which are felonies.
The charges relate to Perry's threatened and completed veto of $7.5 million in state funding for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit.
The case claims that the threat and veto were retaliation against Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat and the head of that unit, who ignored Perry's call for her to resign after she was convicted of drunk driving. At the time Lehmberg's unit was investigating corruption in a program Perry had heavily touted; if she had resigned, Perry would have appointed her replacement.
Following the announcement, a split has emerged among press covering the story. Much of the Lone Star State media has covered it as a valid legal proceeding and part of a greater picture of misconduct, while national media are treating Perry's indictment as mere politics.
The New York Times editorial board speculated that it "appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecution." Liberal New York magazine reporter Jonathan Chait labeled the indictment "unbelievably ridiculous." A USA Today editorial dubbed it a "flimsy indictment," while The Wall Street Journal called it "prosecutorial abuse for partisan purposes."
But Texas journalists say many on the national level don't know the facts and context and are too quick to judge from afar.
"The national pundits -- and some of them are very thoughtful people -- tend to focus first and most easily on the politics," said Wayne Slater, a columnist at the Dallas Morning News. "How does this particular event help or hurt that candidate in the potential horse race? Many reporters in Texas know Perry and are much more familiar with the details in this case, the fact that these are Republicans investigating this and that Perry has a history of hardball politics in forcing people out. This is a much more nuanced story than some in the Beltway understand."
Slater adds, "Rick Perry is getting good press because he has been masterful in the way he has framed this as a matter of partisan politics. Instinctively political journalists and reporters and outlets at some distance understand that Perry is winning the politics at the moment and that his narrative of events really comports with their general sense of how things work, that politicians threaten people and coerce people."
Forrest Wilder, who is covering the story for the Texas Observer, noted in a recent piece that the criminal complaint against Perry filed in June 2013 by Texans for Public Justice was assigned to a Republican judge who then appointed a former prosecutor in the George H.W. Bush administration as special prosecutor. In comments to Media Matters, Wilder said the charges were something "we should take seriously."
A recent study from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) claims that smog regulations proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will cost the economy $270 billion. But the regulations, necessary to alleviate the unsafe smog pollution currently experienced by 140 million Americans, will likely achieve net benefits by reducing costs associated with medical expenses and premature deaths, while experts have said the NAM study uses "fraudulent" claims and is "not based in economic reality."
The Tampa Tribune has pulled a controversial column that alleged Disney is indoctrinating children with its "pro-gay agenda." The column, which was highlighted by Media Matters, had also drawn criticism from gay rights activists and Florida journalists.
On August 11, Douglas MacKinnon, who is listed on the since-pulled column as "Tribune staff," argued that Disney has been engaged in an underhanded effort to wrongly "indoctrinate" children. He also contended the company is trying to subtly push an agenda through its children's programming.
The piece, titled, "Disney's pro-gay agenda is disturbing," quoted an anonymous "former Disney executive" saying, "the company has taken direct aim at children to indoctrinate them about gay lifestyles and gay marriage through shows it airs on The Disney Channel and Disney XD."
MacKinnon later added:
The former executive said one of the more subtle techniques is to incorporate the colors of the gay-pride flag in as many shots as possible. The colors are woven in as a wink and nod to the gay community and show up on shirts, hats, posters, stacked cups and rings. The practice has been picked up by other children's networks and national advertisers. Disney also pushes the gay agenda by introducing openly gay characters and couples on its children's programing. Again, that is their right, but should they be in the business of entertaining children or indoctrinating them?
As of publication, Media Matters had received no response to requests for comment from the Tribune.* The column was removed midday today.
The newspaper posted several letters to the editor critical of the column, which termed it "boring" and "hate-filled." The Tribune's "letter of the day" on August 14 also focused on the column, stating it was "disturbing."
Prior to the column's removal from the Tribune website, several gay rights activists and journalists expressed concern to Media Matters about its stereotypical and offensive arguments. Among them, Nadine Smith, founder and CEO of Equality Florida and a former Tribune reporter.
"The first time I read it I thought it was satire," said Smith, who worked at the Tribune from 1989 to 1993. "It's absurd. He's so fixated on this bizarre, paranoid fantasy that he's actually missed the larger story. Businesses are speaking up and being very visible and speaking out quite publicly for equal rights."
A conservative columnist for the Tampa Tribune criticized the Walt Disney Co. for allegedly pushing a "pro-gay agenda," asserting that the company is using its programming to "indoctrinate" children about "gay lifestyles and gay marriage."
In his August 12 column, Douglas MacKinnon - a former aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush - charged that Disney was peddling the "gay agenda" to "impressionable children" by exposing them to "openly gay characters and couples":
Beginning with the takeover of the company by Michael Eisner in 1984 and continuing under the leadership of Robert Iger since 2005, it can be argued that Disney has been working overtime to redefine "family values."
Back in the late 1990s when I worked with former Sen. Bob Dole, I had the pleasure to interact with Iger. He was professional, respectful and could not have been more kind or considerate. Since taking over, he has only made the company more profitable. But beyond his fiscal responsibility to shareholders, does Iger have an even greater responsibility to impressionable children?
Disney has made no secret that it pushes a pro-gay agenda. That is most certainly its right. But where does the company draw the line? A former Disney executive I spoke with told me the company has taken direct aim at children to indoctrinate them about gay lifestyles and gay marriage through shows it airs on The Disney Channel and Disney XD.
The former executive said one of the more subtle techniques is to incorporate the colors of the gay-pride flag in as many shots as possible. The colors are woven in as a wink and nod to the gay community and show up on shirts, hats, posters, stacked cups and rings. The practice has been picked up by other children's networks and national advertisers.
Disney also pushes the gay agenda by introducing openly gay characters and couples on its children's programing. Again, that is their right, but should they be in the business of entertaining children or indoctrinating them? [emphasis added]
MacKinnon never explains what harm might be caused by featuring gay-inclusive programming - suggesting that he sees an inherent harm in simply letting children know that gay people exist and have families.
MacKinnon's attack on Disney's alleged "pro-gay agenda is just the latest in the columnist's history of rabid right-wing rhetoric.
A recent national report from the Government Accountability Office found that a higher regulatory standard is needed to ensure that drinking water sources are protected from fracking wastewater practices. But the largest circulating newspapers of the states with the highest levels of fracking production -- therefore among the most vulnerable to its risks -- have ignored this study.
The New Hampshire Union Leader rejected the factually accurate claim that the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision would result in gender discrimination while pushing the myth that the forms of contraception discussed in the case were actually abortion-inducing drugs.
As Houston's Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) faces a repeal effort at the ballot box, Houston media outlets need to do a better job of correcting right-wing misinformation about the ordinance, holding its opponents accountable, and ensuring that LGBT advocates are no longer pushed to the sidelines of the debate.
HERO is likely headed to the November ballot after a coalition fighting to repeal the measure announced that it had collected 50,000 signatures to place HERO up for a repeal vote.
On May 28, the Houston City Council voted 11 to six to approve HERO, which prohibits discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations. A coalition dubbing itself "No Unequal Rights" immediately launched a repeal drive, and the campaign's July 3 announcement that it had collected nearly three times the required signatures sets the stage for a divisive four-month slog. The repeal fight is likely to be especially damaging for Houston's LGBT community; scholars note that public referenda on LGBT rights can easily become dominated by misinformation campaigns.
In the coming months, Houston media outlets have the opportunity to correct their frequently problematic and misleading coverage of HERO . Here's how:
HERO opponents have focused particularly on the measure's protections for transgender people, asserting that affording transgender individuals equal access to gender-appropriate facilities will make it easier for sexual predators to assault women and children. But the transgender bathroom myth is completely baseless. Independent experts in states and cities that have already adopted transgender protections report no problems stemming from the laws, with one sexual assault victims' advocate calling the myth "beyond specious."
Still, in the month after HERO passed, local media outlets in Houston gave significant play to the transgender bathroom myth.
The coalition leading the repeal crusade might be called "No Unequal Rights" - ostensibly because the ordinance grants "special rights" to the LGBT community. But the ordinance establishes the same non-discrimination protections that already exist in several Texas cities.
Outlets should note that HERO isn't just an LGBT ordinance. It bans discrimination based not only on sexual orientation or gender identity, but also sex, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, familial status, marital status, military status, religion, disability, genetic information, or pregnancy.


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Two plentiful drugs in addition to Cipro treat anthrax
Yet panicked Americans who haven't come close to anthrax-tainted letters circulating the East Coast are buying up Cipro. Internet sites sell Cipro packages that let people buy without seeing a doctor -- at more than $7 a pill, and some don't even contain the proper dose.
"One pediatrician called me and said, 'Look, I'm going to do this. Just tell me what the dose is,' " said Dr. Bernhard Wiedermann, an infectious disease specialist at Children's National Medical Center in Washington who urges doctors not to do that.
For children, the warning is especially important: Animal studies suggest Cipro might damage child joints, he said, so other drugs are preferred.
Some doctors say they've agonized over those concerns yet decided to give in to patients' demands.
"We could help create strains of common drug-resistant bugs that could plague us all for years," acknowledge Drs. Beth Horowitz and Matthew Parker, internists practicing in downtown Washington. Yet they wrote The Washington Post this week that they're not sure the government has the situation under control and thus will continue to dispense just-in-case antibiotics.
Cipro gained fame when the FDA approved it last year as a first-line treatment against anthrax, and the government has stockpiled enough doses for 2 million people for 60 days.
Yet the generic drugs doxycycline and penicillin have long been FDA-approved anthrax treatments, and several manufacturers churn out millions of pills. What's been missing are exact dosage instructions for preventing anthrax infection in people exposed to the bacteria. Within a week, the FDA will publish those instructions, Woodcock said.
That's important in helping doctors choose antibiotics that will pose the lowest side-effect risk to each patient.
All antibiotics can cause allergic reactions. Cipro can cause central nervous system side effects such as dizziness, confusion and depression, as well as ruptures of tendons. Doxycycline's main warnings mention permanently staining children's teeth and making the skin sensitive to sunburn.
"Doxycycline is better tolerated," said Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, the CDC's director.
Indeed, people exposed to anthrax who show no symptoms after a few days should expect doctors to switch them from Cipro to doxycycline, Koplan said.
The CDC has mailed state health departments anthrax-preventing dosage instructions for Cipro, doxycycline and a penicillin relative called amoxicillin. The recommendations:
- For adults, 500 milligrams of Cipro twice a day for 60 days; or 100 mg of doxycycline twice a day for 60 days; or 500 mg of amoxicillin three times a day for 60 days.
- Pregnant women should take only amoxicillin.
- Doxycycline is the first choice for the elderly.
- Children need special doses based on weight.
The FDA didn't object to the CDC's recommendations but also will publish a penicillin dose.