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Connecticut chiropractors remind me of Connecticut liquor store owners and I'll tell you why. Here's what's happening in the Nutmeg State. A small group of people claim that cervical manipulation, chiropractic "cracking" of their neck, has caused them debilitating strokes. They've gone to the state legislature to ask them to force the chiropractors to inform patients of that slim possibility. The chiropractors are fighting it with every once of thumb pressure they have.
You, being a rational person, might think, "What's the big deal if it's a slim possibility?" There's a slim possibility of danger from almost every medical procedure.
The chiropractors have resisted informing their patients for reasons that are are too asinine to repeat. The bottom line, of course, is the bottom line, and here's where they remind me of liquor store owners.
Every couple of years, the liquor-consuming public demands that the liquor stores stay open on Sunday. The owners give reasons why they can't that, just like their chiropractic cousins, are too asinine to repeat. Bottom line: The liquor stores will have to hire more people and spend more money to staff their stores on Sunday.
Chiropractors are afraid if they have to tell patients there's a very slight chance they could have a stroke from the treatment, it'll hurt business. Well, whether they tell their patients or not, the word's out. Everybody knows. Seems to me the chiropractors would be better off taking an aggressive, proactive stance on this, but what do I know? I'm not a highly paid lobbyist.
In the end, like most things in Connecticut politics, it will all come down to how much money the chiropractors have given to the legislators and their re-election campaigns. The liquor store lobbyists have kept our legislature fat and happy. The patients and the customers be damned.


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This study reviews the evidence on the psychological effects of induced abortion.
- Figures and tables can be seen in the attached print-friendly PDF file of the complete article in the 'Files' section of this page
Allyson Lipp, PhD, MSc, MA, RNT, RGN, is principal lecturer, Faculty of Health, Sport and Science, University of Glamorgan, and postdoctoral fellow at the Research Capacity Building Collaboration Wales.
Lipp, A. (2009) Termination of pregnancy: a review of psychological effects on women. Nursing Times; 105: 1, 26-29.
Termination of pregnancy may have psychological consequences that are greater than its physical impact. Following a literature search and appraisal, this article explores some of the main themes arising from studies on the psychological impact. The results demonstrate that negative psychological effects are more likely in certain high-risk women. A table of indicators has been developed which could assist nurses in recognising whether a woman is at risk of negative psychological effects after termination.
Implications for practice
Termination of pregnancy is a relatively minor, safe procedure that has minimal physical impact (Rorbye et al, 2005). Psychologically, however, the potential impact is less clear. This article explores relevant literature on this subject.
In 2007 a total of 198,500 terminations were carried out in England and Wales, a rise of 2.5% compared with 2006 (Department of Health, 2008). The NHS funded 87% of these, and 55% of the total took place in the independent sector under the NHS contract. However, termination of pregnancy in the UK is only available to women meeting the strict legal criteria of the Abortion Act 1967.
With nearly 200,000 terminations per year, even small detrimental psychological effects could impact on many women for an indeterminate length of time.
Following a comprehensive assessment, a termination is performed in one of two ways. Medical termination is a two-stage process that requires a brief visit to a licensed venue where medication is administered orally. This is followed by a 5-6 hour stay 24-48 hours later, when further abortifacient medication is administered and the termination occurs. Surgical termination is a one-stage, day-case procedure usually performed under general anaesthetic. Women may be given the choice of a medical or surgical termination depending on their preference, stage of pregnancy and local availability of services (Lipp, in press; Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 2004).
Complex nature of the evidence
Owing to the diverse nature of the topic, in addition to accessing major policy documents, the main electronic databases were searched for English language articles. These included Medline, CINAHL, PsychLit and Science Direct. Keywords used were:
- Abortion;
- Termination of pregnancy;
- Psychological effects;
- Emotion;
- Anxiety;
- Depression.
This review does not claim to be systematic in the strict sense (Greenhalgh, 1997). The quality of the studies accessed varied, as did sample size and validity measures.
Randomised controlled trials are the least biased form of research (Gray, 1997) but women cannot be 'randomised' into termination. Quantitative evidence, therefore, centres on observational studies that may inadvertently under-report events as women may be reluctant to disclose a past termination (Thorp et al, 2002).
Some of the studies included are qualitative. However, while these are a useful contribution to understanding psychological consequences of termination, owing to their specific design they cannot normally be generalised to the population (Bowling and Ebrahim, 2005). Some of the research on the topic did not control for previous mental health status, thus risking biased results (Harris, 2004).
The results of some studies and reviews accessed must be interpreted with caution as they are now dated. They were performed when accessing termination and the process itself were more arduous and socially less acceptable than current mechanisms, resulting in the procedure having greater impact psychologically.
The results of studies on psychological consequences are confounded by the cultural, religious and legal circumstances of the society in which the termination occurs. What may be acceptable in one country or even community may not be acceptable in another. In addition, the type of termination (medical or surgical) and reason for the procedure are among the factors that may affect psychological recovery.
Factors influencing negative psychological consequences
According to the evidence, some women are at greater risk of psychological disturbances than others and certain factors influence this.
A Norwegian mixed-method study of 80 women followed them up for two years with an interview, the Impact of Event Scale and a questionnaire about their feelings associated with the termination (Broen et al, 2005a). In Norway, as in some other European countries, a woman has an unconditional right to a termination before 12 weeks' gestation. The authors found
that pressure from a male partner to have a termination had a negative psychological effect on the woman and was the strongest predictor of emotional distress at six months' and two years' follow-up.
In a study comparing mental health following termination with mental health following miscarriage, the authors found the mental health of women undergoing termination was poorer before the event (Broen et al, 2005b). They argue this could account for elevated anxiety of the termination group compared with the miscarriage group, which continued until the end of the five-year follow-up period.
Cozzarelli et al (1998) performed a study based on 615 women undergoing first-trimester surgical termination in the US. They found that women with a positive self-regard were better able to mobilise their social networks, which allowed them to cope more effectively post termination. Those with low self-esteem tended to be ineffective in seeking support from their partners and thus were left to cope after the procedure.
Low self-esteem, late-gestation termination, prior psychiatric illness and conflict with religious or cultural beliefs were all issues found to influence negative psychological outcomes following termination, in an Australian review. This summarised the international literature from a 30-year period between 1970 and 2000 (Bonevski and Adams, 2001).
Psychiatric disturbances
In an early study, Ashton (1980) interviewed 111 women before a surgical termination with eight-week and eight-month follow-up. There was a large drop-out rate, with only 22 women interviewed at eight months.
Of these, six reported persistent disturbances and all six were married and had been ambivalent about having the termination. GP records were accessed for 86 women at eight months and about 10% were found to experience serious psychiatric problems. However, these were short-lived and mainly resolved by eight or nine months after the termination.
This finding is echoed in a review, published a decade after Ashton's study, of the preceding 20 years' studies. The reviewers found that severe or persistent psychological disturbances were reported to occur in about 10% of women (Zolese and Blacker, 1992).
A comprehensive review by Thorp et al (2002) examining multiple effects following termination included 10 studies on subsequent mental health. The studies spanned 25 years from 1974 to 2000. Three large studies in the review examined almost 600,000 records and found an increase in the risk of suicide after termination. Three studies followed women up for 30 days and one (173,279 records) followed them up for 1-8 years. Thorp et al (2002) asserted that women contemplating a termination should be cautioned about an increased risk of self-harm or suicide. However, it could be argued that such a direct approach may be counterproductive at such a sensitive time.
Hess' (2004) US phenomenological study found that some women who found the experience negative sought help and healing. This indicates that help should be made easily accessible to women at the time of their termination. The risk factors affecting psychological consequences are outlined to assist nurses in assessing those at risk undergoing a termination (Table 1)
|Table 1. Risk factors
Indicators to elicit risk of psychological effects
Source of evidence
Demographics - termination being in conflict with ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic group
Harris (2004); Bonevski and Adams (2001)
Foetal abnormality
Bonevski and Adams (2001)
Second trimester caused by delay in accessing services
Harris (2004)
Low self-esteem
Bonevski and Adams (2001)
Lack of social support
Major and Gramzow (1999); Cozzarelli et al (1998)
Difficulty making decision
Shusterman (1979)
Suicide in the family
Thorp et al (2002)
History of self-harm
Thorp et al (2002)
History of depression
Thorp et al (2002)
History of psychiatric illness
Broen et al (2005b); Bonevski and Adams (2001)
Undue influence from male partner
Broen et al (2005a); Pope et al (2001)
Anxiety and depression
The psychiatric disturbance in the 10% of women who underwent termination in Zolese and Blacker's (1992) review was mainly in the form of anxiety and depression.
Bradshaw and Slade (2003) performed a critical review of the literature regarding emotional experiences following termination. Their review accessed post-1990 literature as they recognised that, culturally, attitudes have become more liberal over the past two decades. They found that levels of anxiety, depression and general distress decreased in the month following termination but the results of studies differed on the degree of the reduction. The better-quality studies suggested that 8-23% of women were experiencing high levels of general distress one month after their termination (Bradshaw and Slade, 2003).
Bonevski and Adams (2001) found no differences in distress between medical or surgical termination or in those undergoing termination compared with those who were refused. Of the 26 reviews they appraised, the researchers only found one that reported significant negative psychological effects, contradicting the conclusions of the other 25. A number of studies included in the review reported raised levels of grief in women having a termination because of foetal abnormality. They found no negative psychological effects in teenagers having a termination over and above those experienced by adult women (Bonevski nd Adams, 2001).
Coping with termination
The ways in which women cope psychologically with termination vary and, although qualitative studies cannot normally be generalised, a number have been included to add another dimension to the evidence.
A phenomenological study of 17 women found five themes that described the women's journey from making the decision, coping with the memories, gaining perspective, seeking help and recognising its worth (Hess, 2004). Within these themes, there were negative and positive ways in which women coped following termination. These included acknowledging forgiveness, which hastened healing. 'Making the foetus a person' helped some work through their grief as well as appreciating that intense emotions continued years later.
Interestingly, another phenomenological study appears to contradict these findings as it found that persistent emotional upset was connected with a more human view of the foetus (Goodwin and Ogden, 2007). In a further phenomenological study involving women 15 years or more after their termination, 'embodiment: giving form to the child' was a theme raised by some women. Most women were able to recall the age the child would have been at the time of the study. This highlights the individual nature of qualitative findings and the fact such studies are not generally applicable. The hypothesis regarding the foetus as a person in these studies would benefit from testing in future quantitative research.
To enable coping, sensitive follow-up would be required during future gynaecological and obstetric care. First, it would be important to enable women to disclose their past termination by providing the right environment. Concealing their previous history within a healthcare setting could be detrimental to patients' current care. However, many women conceal their circumstances from friends and family because of the shame associated with termination of pregnancy (Major and Gramzow, 1999). It is part of nurses' and midwives' roles to give women opportunities to work through any unresolved feelings, be it immediately after termination or during future pregnancies, smear tests or even menopausal care.
Positive outcomes
Although most research studies explore the negative psychological consequences of termination, it is worth noting that positive outcomes have been found to outweigh the harm, with women feeling more relief than negative or positive emotions after two years (Major et al, 2000). This echoes the findings of Shusterman's (1979) study of 393 women undergoing termination, which found that women experienced favourable psychological consequences that outweighed negative ones.
A large prospective longitudinal study followed 13,000 UK women over 8-11 years (Gilchrist et al, 1995). The authors found that when previous psychiatric history was controlled for, psychiatric disorders were no higher following termination than following childbirth.
In the long term, Bradshaw and Slade's (2003) review found that, over 10 years, women who had terminations did no worse psychologically than women who gave birth to wanted or unwanted children.
Supportive partners or parents have been found to improve psychological outcomes for women (Bonevski and Adams, 2001).
In a rather dated US prospective study (Jacobs et al, 1974), a sample of unmarried, predominantly black women of lower socioeconomic status showed a significant reduction in distress in most outcome measures four weeks following termination.
This study, along with others in this section, point to the conclusion that, while there is a risk of negative psychological consequences, such consequences could be minimal and transitory.
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2004) noted there is no causal link between termination and negative psychological consequences and that pre-existing conditions need to have been ruled out in making such assumptions. The recent RCN (2008) guidance on termination care reiterates RCOG (2004) guidelines in advocating post-termination counselling for those at risk of psychological difficulties.
The evidence found in this literature review suggests that a proportion of women would benefit from psychological support after termination. Based on the above findings, it would be reasonable to target assistance, in the first instance, towards those women who fit the criteria set out in Table 1.
If psychiatric disturbance occurs, it is likely to affect those at risk such as those with a previous history of psychiatric illness and depression. Having a termination for medical reasons, such as foetal abnormality or being unduly influenced in making the decision to abort, also seems to increase the risk of psychiatric disturbance, although such disturbances are often transitory in nature.
Eliciting the presence of these factors in a sensitive manner, preferably before the procedure, will help nurses to target women appropriately, ensuring that their post-termination care meets their needs in both the short and long term.
Targeting assistance would ensure that help is offered in a timely manner and at the appropriate level, while minimising the risk of prolonging the experience for those women who do not need psychological support and wish to move on.
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Bowling, A., Ebrahim, S. (2005) Handbook of Health Research Methods. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
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AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Denny Hamlin took the lead on a restart and had to sweat out his fuel mileage over the final few laps to win at Phoenix International Raceway on Sunday.
In his second race with new crew chief Darian Grubb, Hamlin shook off memories of a championship-losing run at Phoenix in 2010 by leading the final 59 laps and holding off NASCAR's best closer.
Kevin Harvick had Hamlin in his sights over the final few laps, but ran out of gas and finished second. Hamlin was concerned about gas as well, but had just enough to celebrate his 18th career win with a brief burnout.
Greg Biffle finished third and Jimmie Johnson bounced back from a disastrous Daytona 500 to finish fourth despite wheel troubles midway through the 312-lap race.
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Coastside Literacy Program Goes National
Over the past few years local teachers and officials have forged a link between the Coastside and one of the nation's leading teaching institutes, Teachers College at Columbia University. The goal is to promote literacy and mesh the teaching methods of elite private schools in the local public system.
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Believe it or not, vaccine industry spokesman Seth Mnookin blocked me on Twitter from responding to his tweets, not for citing anything from Age of Autism, but for citing – of all sources – the CDC. Linking to a recent CDC media release, Seth Mnookin decided to take advantage of the ongoing pertussis epidemic in Washington State to advance his own agenda, by tweeting:
9 deaths so far in largest pertussis outbreak in 50 yrs; unvac'd kids 8x higher risk for infection, says CDC. http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2012/t0719_pertussis_epidemic.html
Mnookin was apparently paraphrasing the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the agency's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who cited the elevated risk, but in that same quote, exonerated people who weren't vaccinated:
"However, we don't think those exemptors are driving this current wave."
When I responded to Seth Mnookin's tweet with the exact, above quote by Dr. Schuchat, he blocked me from being able to respond to any more of his tweets. In effect, he censored the information that would not serve his agenda, even though it came from the CDC, not from any of his designated "anti-vaccine activists."
It all started when I opened my new Twitter account; I had stepped into a heated battle between Rob Schneider and Seth Mnookin. This exchange started with a blog post written by Seth Mnookin responding to a comment Schneider left underneath an article Mnookin wrote for a GE-owned site called "Txchnologist." On that site, Mnookin lambasted HuffPo for re-posting a news segment of Schneider speaking out against a state law in California aimed at requiring doctor's consent for children to forgo a vaccination.
Mnookin's blog post urged Schneider to read books by millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit, linking to a page on Offit's vaccine indoctrination center saying an infant can receive as many as 10,000 vaccines at one time. Mnookin also cited the IOM's latest report attempting to white-wash the vaccine-autism link and asked Schneider if he would like to speak to families of children who died of whooping cough, even though the current outbreak is not driven by vaccine exemptors as even the CDC admits. Seth Mnookin then tweeted the blog post to Rob Schneider on Twitter, provocatively boasting:
A pt-by-pt rebuttal to @robschneider 's comments on my @txchnologist piece about his anti-science lunacy http://ht.ly/ckqPp
Then Rob Schneider called Mnookin out:
@sethmnookin You have to attack and call names. Yet you won't admit that Children get irreparable harm from vaccines.
Mnookin then tried to schmooze Schneider by offering him a free copy of his book "Panic Virus."
@robschneider I'd love to send you a copy of my book - this is a totally heartfelt offer. you can DM me if you'd like one.
So I decided to leave some tweets of my own to Schneider, which among other things, told him of Seth Mnookin's forced removal of me from his lecture last December when I tried asking him a question, and also described his friend Paul Offit telling me to "Get the fuck out of here! Piece of shit!"
Rob Schneider re-tweeted both of those tweets to his 80,000+ followers, who now know what Paul Offit said to me last April and that Seth Mnookin threw me out of his speaking engagement. Despite later claiming he played no role in my ejection and that he probably would have preferred that I'd stayed, Seth Mnookin blocked me from responding to him on Twitter after I reminded him of CDC's admission that vaccine exemptions were not behind the whooping cough outbreak in Washington State. This fact would not serve the special interests of vaccine manufacturers well, or those of Seth Mnookin either, apparently.
Seth Mnookin's obnoxious censorship of me on Twitter was far outweighed by a delightful DM exchange I had with Rob Schneider, who taught me a very wise quote by the late M. Scott Peck, who told Schneider:
"If the Devil exists he is saying, 'Don't make waves!'"
I thanked Rob Schneider for making waves. He replied, "You too, pal!"
HuffPo did not at all side with Rob Schneider in his denunciation of the California law, and in fact attempted to mock him. In particular, HuffPo seemed to get a kick out of the fact that Schneider said the California state law was "against the Nuremberg Laws" (formally known as the Nuremberg Code). They are international laws; they are still in effect and apply to every UN member state. The United States is no exception.
So what was Seth Mnookin's problem? Well, the sheer fact that HuffPo mocked Rob Schneider. The title of Mnookin's Txchnologist piece speaks for itself:
Vaccine Denialism Isn't Funny, So Why Does HuffPost Give Rob Schneider A Forum?
I guess Seth Mnookin does not agree with millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit, who proudly proclaimed while patting himself on the back for his appearance on Stephen Colbert's show:
"Nothing dismisses an argument better than humor."
Even stranger is that there is probably no better example of a website that has gone from providing a forum of open debate to becoming just another dumping ground for vaccine industry talking points than The Huffington Post. Ever since Arianna Huffington hired former cbsnews.com executive editor Neil Katz to become HuffPo's executive news editor last summer, HuffPo has censored vaccine safety information. While at CBS, Katz posted a gallery full of talking points co-opted by Seth Mnookin, wrote an article defending the vaccine-autism scandal and worked alongside Dr. Jon LaPook, the vaccine industry-tied HuffPo blogger and CBS Evening News Chief Medical Correspondent.
CBS Evening News is now anchored by Scott Pelley, who co-chairs the International Rescue Committee's Overseers while the group's board of directors includes a top Pfizer executive. Similarly, Dr. Jon LaPook previously edited the Journal of the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where Dr. Michael Gershon – husband of Merck chicken pox vaccine developer Dr. Anne Gershon – was listed as a contributing writer. Since Pelley took over as anchor and his predecessor Katie Couric joined ABC, not a single report on vaccine safety has been produced by CBS investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.
After joining HuffPo, Neil Katz hired one of his old CBS colleagues, former WebMD writer David Freeman, to be the "Senior Science Editor" of HuffPo's new "Science" section, which includes a column by Seth Mnookin himself. Working under Freeman is an employee named Cara Santa Maria who currently works as HuffPo's "Science Correspondent" and just recently posted a HuffPo videocast interviewing and lauding Mnookin. In the meantime, I contacted HuffPo's head of media relations, Mario Ruiz, asking him how he can claim the website still values varied opinions when it clearly does not, I received no reply.
But all this was not good enough for sore winner Seth Mnookin, who seems to think he is not only entitled to telling media outlets to shill for the vaccine industry, but also how to shill for that industry. Yet there is seemingly no limit to Mnookin's sense of entitlement in telling the media how and what to report about the vaccine-autism controversy, given that he will censor the CDC's position on the whooping cough outbreak in Washington State on top of all the lying and censoring he has done already.
Without question, the fact that vaccine exemptions are not driving the whooping cough epidemic could not well serve the interests of the vaccine industry front group run by Alison Singer, whose mother-in-law is colleagues with Seth Mnookin's uncle, Robert Mnookin. I guess it is no surprise that Seth Mnookin would censor a U.S. federal agency - CDC.
Seth Mnookin has no need for Uncle Sam; he's got Uncle Pharma.
Jake Crosby has Asperger Syndrome and is a contributing editor to Age of Autism. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a BA in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy and currently attends The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services where he is studying for an MPH in epidemiology.
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Ah, yes, that wonderful whooping cough vaccine:
"New studies published in prominent medical journals have called into question the 85 percent efficacy quoted in the vaccine's package inserts. For example, one study by scientists at Kaiser Permanente found vaccine effectiveness in Marin County in 2010 to be between 24 and 79 percent for children 2 to 18....Of particular concern was the number of cases in California occurring in fully vaccinated children 7 through 10 years of age. For cases in which immunization history was known, more than 80 percent of the children in that age group diagnosed with pertussis had been fully vaccinated, according to an analysis of state data."
Jeff c ..you notice the changes in tact from the ex Junkie cronies of Mookin when they all say well ,have another it will make you better ,even although the first made you ill..
Pushers..nothings changed for Mookin still in the same business..
Keep up the great work Jake ..had a look at a few of the othersides (dark side web sites) and they look very desperate as what to do with AOA and yourself and others that write on here...you will probably hate me for saying this but your winning..and will win along with AOA
Thanks from the UK
Regarding the nine infant pertussis deaths this year, of course it is a terrible tragedy for those families. However, none of these articles point out there were 3 million births in the US during this same period. This hysteria is being driven by a pertussis mortality rate of 1 death for every 330,000 births.
Yet 1 death per 1000 births from SIDS is dismissed as normal, just one of those unexplained mysteries of life. These people have no shame.
Despite the efforts of Mnookin and his cronies, the general public understands the vaccinated are still getting pertussis. Fortunately, there are some doctors and public health officials out there honest enough to point out this inconvenient and obvious fact.
Have you noticed the latest meme? They acknowledge the vaccinated can still get pertussis, but are now claiming it is likely to be much less severe if you have been vaccinated. I've seen this repeated countless times in articles over the last month, almost certainly the result of a coordinated change in tack by the vaccine lobby. Supporting documentation? None. Studies cited? None. Anecdotal evidence? None.
Just another in a long string of recent pertussis pronouncements from on high without any basis whatsoever. It suddenly became safe to routinely vaccinate pregnant women despite zero safety studies and statements in the package insert to the contrary. Vaccine "cocooning" of family members became a necessity despite no proof of effectiveness and suspension of the practice in Australia. We are also seeing suggestions that kids get boosters every three years. No explanation of why this fully tested and licensed vaccine doesn't seem to work. No explanation of how repeating something ineffective makes it effective. This from the "evidenced based" community, funny how all their solutions involve moving more product.
"he censored the information that would not serve his agenda, even though it came from the CDC"
What could more positively confirm Mnookin's allegiance to pharma (via his familial ties to pharma front group Autism Science Foundation)?
There have ALWAYS been outbreaks of Whooping cough, it is no different now than it ever was. It is a bacteria. One can be a carrier and display symptoms more than once...Simplistically, think of it like strep throat...which, BTW there is an outbreak of strep across the country as well.
The point is, the only reason that Whooping cough is being acknowledged as Whooping Cough, is that it is being tested and confirmed in the lab. In the past, pediatricians never tested for whooping cough because they just assumed it could not be..(.there was a vaccine for it and of course ALL vaccines work). Why is it being tested? Well, what an easy way to make more money without having to do anything at all but make more product? First it was 4 DTaP shots, then 5, now they are going to 6. The newest marketing strategy is to give it to teenagers and adults. Just think. All that money coming in to big Pharma (doubled their money using nothing but marketing). Instead of admitting the vaccine does not work against pertussis, they make more money by selling another round!
My daughter was vaccinated with the old, more powerful DPT shot and yet when the whooping cough came around to her nusery school she got a bad case of it. My son who was not vaccinated because we were spooked by the possibility of vaccine caused death did not get whooping cough. I didn't get it either nor my husband and neither one of us were vaccinated. It's true that some kids who weren't vaccinated got it but a lot of kids who were did as well. Parents can vaccinate their kids but there is no guarantee that if the bug comes around their kids won't get it. The proof as they say is in the pudding.
Nice work Jake, as usual.
I personally have to wonder about this supposed new outbreak of whooping cough. The media has been doing its usual full court press on the issue, which for me is ALWAYS good reason to be skeptical.
Fear mongering articles are now everywhere, and this exerpt from one of them pretty much reflects the prevailing journalistic standard:
" Reported cases of pertussis are at their highest level in 50 years, a top official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, adding that outbreaks in several states should encourage all children and adults to get vaccinated..."
Although this all sounds quite ominous, a closer look raises interesting questions:
" Reported cases of pertussis......" - shouldn't this be confirmed cases ???
" at their highest level in 50 years...." - how come EVERY time the CDC reports on something, it's the worst they've seen in several decades ???
" a top official with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday..." - really, a top CDC official who chose to remain nameless ???
" adding that outbreaks in several states should encourage all children and adults to get vaccinated..." - And here it all ends, try to form, with what this and every other main-stream media article is REALLY all about.
I personally don't believe that we're in the midst of a pertussis outbreak. Just like I no longer believe that there are flu seasons every fall.
For the past few years, I've watched the public grow ever more skeptical of the value of flu shots. The swine flu fiasco dealt a tremendous blow to the CDC's credibility, and I've often wondered what strategy they'd come up with, to keep poisoning us with vaccines in spite of the public's growing distrust of their flu shots.
I think I just got my answer.
There is only ONE thing that prevents those who insist they have "science on their side" .. such as .. Seth Mnookin or Paul Offit .. from seeking every opportunity to engage in public debate with those who strongly disagree with their "science" .. and .. that ONE thing .. is outright FEAR.
As an example of someone who is unafraid of "science" .. I would urge everyone to read Dr. Paul King's excellent response .. to a July article in Forbes magazine titled: "Vaccine Safety: Why Parents' Alternative Immunization Schedules May Cause Harm" written by Dr. Steven Salsberg.
This excellent response could just as easily have been written to refute Seth's moronic "tweet" that ... "9 deaths so far in largest pertussis outbreak in 50 yrs; unvac'd kids 8x higher risk for infection, says CDC."
In any event .. at the conclusion of Dr. King's response to the Forbes article .. unlike Seth Mnookin or Paul Offit .. Dr King welcomes and respectfully requests Dr. Salsberg to respond .. should he find ANY reason to challenge the science as presented by Dr King.
As far as I know .. Dr. King's "challenge" to Dr. Salsberg remains .. "unanswered".
I am not surprised.
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There is such a reporter.
Dan Olmstead.
But I know what you mean -- Front page news on the Washington Post or headline news on the news hour of a major syndicated something.
Nothern Kentucky and Lexington Kentucky had a pertusis outbreak four or so years back. OF course it blamed the vaccination rates were down.
If only that were true.
My friend had her grandson in one of the preschool classrooms that some of the kids actually came down with whooping cough.
Even though her grandson was fully vaccinated - he and the entire classroom was given antibiotics as a precaution.
I think it is because it is a new strain that the vaccine does not cover.
And they know it!
After all the heads of the NIH and all are trying to crack down on antibiotics being given for anything.
Ineffective vaccines, frozen vaccines, lying teams virologists and marketers, an ex-junkie PR hire running amok on the Internet... Would you buy food from these people?
I actually had a doctor (recently) suggest that my son's cough (with nothing else to go on!) might be pertussis! No lab work, less than five minutes with the child, no reason to single out "might be pertussis" except to maybe, oh, I don't know: PUSH THE VAX?
My DH seemed all up in arms, OMG!, what have we done, WE FAILED to get the "booster shot," until I pointed out that: we had no reason to believe our son had pertussis, the cough was going away, and he had been vaccinated for it before, which apparently did no good.
As far as a booster, it would be a moot point in any case, wouldn't it, since IF he had pertussis, then he was now creating his own immunity to the actual disease.
Hubby made one last try: "Well, we could protect others. . ."
No, wrong again, hubby dear, because IF it was pertussis and IF anyone had been exposed to our child already and IF they were close enough to catch it and IF they weren't healthy enough and IF they came down with symptoms and IF they saw a doctor and IF they needed antibiotics--OMG, antibiotics!--THEN, BIG DEAL--they were no worse off than our son had been for a week or so. No more!
And there was no reason to call it pertussis, but I wonder if our doc reported it to the CDC as pertussis! Another case of pertussis. . .diagnosed on absolutely nothing.
Infants? We haven't been around any for years. And if I had a baby, I'd have the common sense to keep my baby away from anyone coughing--for any reason!--DUH! Oh, yeah, I did do that.
Good grief!
Keep rubbing those two brain cells together, people, or else listen to those of us who still can!
p.s. Added bonus? Anyone reasonably healthy, and casually exposed to my son's cough, who didn't get sick is probably busy building antibodies against whatever he had--brilliant, right?--so they themselves will be somewhat immune to future exposures without actually getting sick and without getting the shot.
You're welcome.
What is this..UK bans mention of autism/mmr connection
Thanks, Jake and also Rob Schneider! It's not easy being an honest soul in a sea of sharks. This is not new with Pertussis ---
Acellular pertussis vaccination enhances B. parapertussis colonization
....vaccination led to a 40-fold enhancement of B. parapertussis colonization in the lungs of mice.....these data suggest that the vaccine may be contributing to the observed rise in whooping cough incidence over the last decade by promoting B. parapertussis infection.
An acellular whooping cough vaccine actually enhances the colonization of Bordetella parapertussis in mice; pointing towards a rise in B. parapertussis incidence resulting from acellular vaccination, which may have contributed to the observed increase in whooping cough over the last decade.
Despite widespread vaccination, whooping cough incidence is on the rise worldwide, making it the only vaccine-preventable disease associated with increasing deaths in the United States. Although this disease is most often attributed to Bordetella pertussis infection, it is also caused by the closely related pathogen, B. parapertussis. However, B. pertussis has remained the center of attention, whereas B. parapertussis has been greatly overlooked in the development of whooping cough vaccines.
Number of whooping cough cases on the rise in La Crosse Co.
LA CROSSE, Wis.- There's a big jump in the number of whooping cough cases in the La Crosse area and health officials are expecting more as it spreads.
There are 12 confirmed cases so far this year. To put that in perspective, in 2009 there were only 2 cases throughout the entire year.
Health officials say the cases of whooping cough this time around are somewhat unusual.
"Unfortunately the cases that we've had have been immunized and so we're not really sure how it's being spread so well and so fast, but we are investigating that right now," says La Crosse Co. Public Health Nurse Traci Lien.
Whooping cough outbreak puzzles Lincoln officials
"Whooping cough has reached outbreak status in Lincoln County..There have been 25 cases...23 of them coming from the school...Since all students are required to be vaccinated against the disease before they can attend school and even a single case is considered uncommon, health and school officials are baffled by the outbreak at the school."
More kids' hospital doctors get whooping cough
The hospital says the doctors have contracted the infection despite keeping their vaccinations up to date.
Dr Brian Wheatley, from the hospital, concedes vaccination is not always effective.
accinated People Getting Whooping Cough In San Diego:
SAN DIEGO — A KPBS investigation has raised questions about how effective the whooping cough vaccine is in preventing people from getting sick. Nearly two out of three people diagnosed with whooping cough in San Diego County this year, were fully immunized.
California is in the midst of the worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years. Thirty six hundred people in the state have been diagnosed with the disease. Eight babies have died since January.
KPBS examined data from San Diego County's Health and Human Services Agency. Of the 332 confirmed cases of whooping cough in the county so far this year, 197 of the people who got sick were up to date with their immunizations. That's nearly 2 out of 3 cases.
Mainstream study out of the Netherlands:
Reemergence of Pertussis in the
Highly Vaccinated Population of
the Netherlands: Observations on
Surveillance Data
"The increase in pertussis incidence was higher among vaccinated than among unvaccinated persons of all ages."
Even those fully vaccinated can still get whooping cough, health official says
TERRE HAUTE — Those fully vaccinated for whooping cough can still get the disease, says an epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health.
"We do see cases of kids appropriately vaccinated who still get the disease," said Angie Cierzniewski, a state vaccine preventable disease epidemiologist.
A Clay County woman knows first-hand that a pertussis vaccination doesn't eliminate the possibility of someone getting pertussis, also known as whooping cough.
The woman, who did not want her name used, said four children in her family became infected with the disease, and the child that first developed it — her 4-year-old — did have the required doses for her age.
She said two of her children had the required number of doses, a 2-year-old was not vaccinated because of low immunity and other reasons and the oldest, an 8-year-old, was lacking one of the required doses of the vaccination.
The Clay County woman said health authorities had incorrect information that her children contracted the disease because they were not immunized. She wants people to realize they can contract the disease even if they are immunized. "I feel the public may have a false sense of security," she said.
Charlotte Observer article ADMITS all 16 whooping cough cases WERE vaccinated
Rare cough on rise in area
Gaston County public health officials fight outbreak of whooping cough; 16 cases reported since August
Excerpt from article:
So far, all the reported pertussis cases in Gaston have been people who have had the vaccination for the disease, Hawkins said.
Rob Schneider is just a decent human being as many celebrities are. However, he had the balls to take a vocal stand and for that I am personally grateful. I am also grateful to you for diving into the debate and making the powers that be uncomfortable. They thing if they are dismissive enough that they can discredit the validity of the TRUTH.
Now, if we could find just one popular journalist to take and honest, unbiased look into the vaccine debate. Actually read Brian Deer point by point response to Wakefield's lawsuit. To LOOK at the "safety" studies of vaccines and who funds them. To read the studies that have backed the MMR findings. To read the studies about autism in monkeys given the standard US schedule. To read the surveys of vaccinated vs unvaccinated health from Germany (because they will NEVER do one here). Then compare them to the studies the vaccine proponents hold up as science like "safety" studies where MOST vaccine's safety was determined by a placebo that was identical to the vaccine, mercury, aluminum and all....just minus the virus. Of course the reactions between the vaccine and the placebo are the same! There was no actual placebo! Why can't a reporter take the time to REALLY dive into it with passion and open mindedness???? They might just have the story of a lifetime. Because any person who does just that comes out on our side. EVERY TIME.
Seth Mnookin calls for censorship, yet he would be screaming if he were ever to be censored. Offit OPINES through faulty, illogical conjecture that an infant can safely receive 10,000 vaccines at once, later revises that figure upward to 100,000 vaccines on a whim, and that is SCIENCE to Mnookin, and to all the other indoctrinated, well paid, Pharma talking head doctors and lobbyists. Well, sorry, but that is not SCIENCE to anyone with at least two neurons in their head that function. Sorry for the use of capital letters, aka screaming, but this whole censorship thing is a disgrace to anyone who believes in the value of the scientific method, which involves observation. We parents observe a lot more about our children than any doctor at any rushed 15 minute "well baby" examination, and we always will. Those observations should never be discounted or marginalized by an industry, their paid whores, or by any media outlets.
Here is my favorite quote from Buddha, "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
Its not what you know, its your connection to Big Pharma that places you in a position to protect their interests, like Seth Mnookin.
So glad you're on our side, Jake! Please never stop.
Wow Jake.
Thanks for delving into the CBS situation. Guess we shouldn't anticipate any further reporting on vaccines from Sharly Attkisson. That's disappointing.
It's amazing the relationships that exist among these people. And if people think those relationships don't matter they are kidding themselves.
Keep up the good work.
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text: Nominations for athletes, coaches, teams, staff and community members from the 1960s, '70s and '80s are being taken for the second annual Del Oro Athletic Hall of Fame. Such notables as Sheriff Ed Bonner, Bob Bonner, Paul Yokote, Randy Hansen, Kurt Richter, Dave Johnson, Butch Enkoji and Tom Cooper were inducted in the inaugural event along with the 1967 basketball team and 1969 track and field team. A Hall of Fame wall has been placed in the annex of Bonner Gym, and all recipients will be placed on the wall for viewing. Nomination forms may be obtained at Del Oro High School and online at www.puhsd.k12.ca.us/deloro. The deadline for submitting a nomination is Feb. 1. For information, contact Monte White at 652-7243, ext. 1004, or at mwhite@ puhsd.k12.ca.us. ~ Staff report


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Boston-headquartered Ceres, a coalition of investor groups, environmental organizations and investment funds, has recently released a new report titled 'From Risk to Opportunity: How Insurers Can Proactively and Profitably Manage Climate Change,' which outlines what insurance companies are doing to tackle the causes and effects of weather-related losses.
Dozens of new insurance activities, such as green building credits and incentives for investing in renewable energy, are emerging. According to Mindy S. Lubber, president of Ceres, 'We've seen encouraging progress from big-name insurers and brokers since last year's devastating hurricanes, but many more creative services will be needed as we confront what is perhaps the biggest threat in the industry's history.'
The report identifies 190 innovative products and services that are available – or are in the pipeline – from dozens of insurance providers in 16 countries. More than half of the activity comes from U.S. companies, the report states.
For instance, Firemen's Fund Insurance is launching a 'green' coverage for commercial building owners who re-build damaged properties using green and LEED-certified (leadership in energy and environmental design) building practices. Also, Marsh and AIG have launched carbon emissions credit guarantees that are allowing more companies to participate in carbon offset projects.
The report can be downloaded from Ceres' Web site at www.ceres.org/pub/.


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If you're happy and you know it … send a Tweet? Researchers say that our word choices in social media reveal our emotions, and now they've used Twitter to map the country's happiness.
A group of researchers at the Vermont Complex Systems Center ranked words in over 10 million tweets from 2011 on a happiness scale. Tweets with words such as "laughter," "love," "rainbow" and "smile" rank high on that scale, whereas "terrorist," "ugly," "cancer," "die" and "fatal" come in at the bottom.
Napa ranks as the happiness city in the United States using this method, and Beaumont, Texas, as the saddest.
As for states, "Hawaii emerges as the happiest state due to an abundance of relatively happy words such as 'beach' and food-related terms," the authors wrote in the study published in PLoS ONE. "Louisiana is revealed as the saddest state, with a significant factor being an abundance of profanity relative to the other states."
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The locations ranked unhappiest tend to feature more profanity in their Tweets, but they also correspond with other happiness predictors, like rates of poverty and how prone a place is to natural disasters.
To see Twitter's happiest and saddest cities of the day, check out @geographyofhapp, a Twitter feed created by study co-author Christopher Danforth.
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OPENING WEEKEND: 'Mother's Day,' Key & Peele comedy 'Keanu' hit theaters
Here's a look at some of the films set to open this weekend.
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WHAT'S ON: New on Netflix, Amazon & Hulu this May
It's going to be a great weekend for some binge-watching.
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The Swedish Oscar winner follows in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie to play the famed adventurer.


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Ryan speaks to 1,500 at airport in Vienna
Paul Ryan, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, today made a final pitch to the Democratic-dominated Mahoning Valley to vote for him and GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
At Winner Aviation at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna Township with about 1,500 people in attendance, Ryan said, "We're not just picking a president for four more years. It's a serious time and we need serious leadership." That person, he said, is Romney.
Ryan criticized President Barack Obama's policies, including the stimulus package.
"We can do a lot better than we're doing now," Ryan said to a very enthusiastic crowd.
For more on this story, see Tuesday's Vindicator or vindy.com
Funny how there's no mention of the scumbag Hagan telling everybody on Facebook that this event was cancelled and there was no need to go.
well to be fair to mr. hagan it was cancelled for anyone that has pot holes in their faces or communists. this cancelled it for him either way.


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Report: Western states edging toward recovery
Friday, December 16, 2011
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The West is recovering faster than the nation as a whole, but employment across the region remained far below pre-recession levels and the housing market showed few signs of improvement, according to an economic report released Thursday.
The report prepared by Brookings Mountain West researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas focused on economic growth in 10 metropolitan areas spread across Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Idaho.
Overall, the region saw a modest 0.3 percent growth in employment in the quarter ending in September, compared to the national rate of 0.1 percent, the study found. Utah, Colorado and New Mexico — states that have built broad economic bases — struggled the least, researchers said.
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Should Self-Driving Cars Obey Speed Limits?
The rules of the road will need an update for robocars.
In many countries, including the United States, the speed limit is a rather nebulous thing. It's posted, but on many roads hardly anybody obeys it. Almost every driver speeds regularly, and anybody going at or below the limit on a clear road outside the right lane is typically an obstruction to traffic—they will find themselves being tailgated or passed at high speed on the left and right.
Half of Germany's Autobahns have no specific speed limit, but they have a better safety record. For a brief time, Montana's highways also had no set limit. In France they take a different approach. The Autoroute limit is 130 kph (81 mph), and almost nobody exceeds it; in fact the vast majority go under it. Reportedly, this is because the police are serious about it and will ticket you for any excess.
In the United States, it's not that way. A ticket for going 1 mph over the limit is an extremely rare thing. It usually signals a cop with another agenda or a special day of zero-tolerance enforcement. In fact, many drivers feel safe from tickets up to about 9 mph over the limit. Tickets happen there, but the major penalties require going faster, and most police like to go after that one weaving, racing guy who thinks the limit does not apply to him.
The limit is a number, but it is not especially magic. It's not like one is safe at 65 mph and reckless at 66 mph, even though that's how the law is written. Rather, the risk from accidents increases gradually with speed. The risk of having an accident is harder to measure, but the severity of an accident is related to the square of the speed of impact.
There is a speed at which we may judge the accident risk is above acceptable limits. This speed is not a single number. It varies from driver to driver and from car to car. It varies from hour to hour, from weather condition to weather condition, and from road to road. As the Autobahn's lower accident rate shows, some drivers are safer at very high speeds on well-designed roads than other drivers are at 50 mph on lesser roads.
And while the Germans are content to do it, the United States is not prepared to officially let drivers decide what the right speed for acceptable safety is. Rather it is done unofficially and irregularly.
So how does a self-driving enter this world of few hard-and-fast rules? There are two common schools of thought:
- As with its ancestor, the cruise control, the operator of a robocar can set the car to operate at any speed within its general limits, regardless of the road speed limit. The moral and safety decisions rest with this person.
- The vehicle must be programmed to not break the speed limit, nor allow its operator to do so. It must be aware of all limits and obey them.
I believe the first choice is both better and more likely. It's more likely because the public has a strong love for having control of their cars, even if it is automated. Attempts to put in speed limiters by law have all been rejected, and cars are routinely sold able to go much faster than any allowed speed limit. Some cars feature speed limiters due to European New Car Assessment Program rules and high European ticket costs, and some cars with very large engines have speed limiters that block them from doing truly crazy speeds, though these can be disabled for racetrack use. (Some people also seek speed limiters for children or parking valets, but don't want them for themselves unless they are one ticket away from losing their license.) In Canada, a truck driver successfully sued to have a court declare a speed limiter put on him was an unconstitutional violation of his basic freedoms.
People generally don't want their technology to disobey them or enforce the law. It's similar to the digital rights management battle in music players.
I think it's more interesting to examine whether limiting vehicles to the speed limit is the right thing to do. At first blush, considering that slower generally means safer, it seems as though such limits would improve safety. This turns out not to be true if, as seems likely, the driver of a robocar can take the wheel and operate it manually—especially if conventional vehicles remain on the road.
A vehicle limited to the speed limit will be going much more slowly than traffic on most U.S. freeways and be forced to drive in the right lane. This is actually a poor lane to drive in, because it means interacting with many cars merging onto the highway. This also means greater variation in speed as cars brake for merges and exits. This is also where the below-limit drivers are found.
This less comfortable ride, plus the longer travel time, will create a great temptation to manually take the wheel on many highways. Here's where some math comes in. If we presume the robocars have an accident rate that is just 50 percent of the human driver rate, the driver is doubling her risk by taking the wheel. If we presume accident risk is 25 percent higher at 75 mph than at 65 mph, this applies to both the vehicle and the human driver moving at that speed. In fact, it is likely the vehicle would do a better job at the higher speed or it would not be rated for that speed at all. The vehicle will know the exact shape of the road and the capability of its tires, and adjust this as it travels to do a better job.
On many roads all lanes are moving faster than the limit. The limited car would become an obstruction to traffic.
Math of lives and hours
Another interesting piece of math revolves around the reason people speed—they want shorter trips. While a trip in a robocar is not nearly so much wasted time as having to drive yourself, consider that human drivers have a fatal accident every 180 million miles of highway driving (at 75 mph,) and let's presume robocars get good enough to have one every 360 million miles at 65mph, and one every 300 million miles at 75mph.
Let's consider time spent driving as 20 percent productive. People have conversations when not alone, do phone calls, and listen to audiobooks and news. Let's consider time in a robocar as 70 percent productive—you can do many productive things, but it's not quite as good as being at a desk or at home. These numbers are arbitrary guesses, but you can fill in your own. At 16 hours per day, there are 5,800 productive hours in a year.
If robocars are constrained to 65mph, then 360 million miles of driving takes 5.5 million hours and has one fatality. We have 660 years of productive time saved and 282 years nonproductive.
Humans at 75 mph would use 4.8 million hours and have two fatalities. That's 82 years productive time and 740 years nonproductive.
A robocar allowed 75 mph also uses 4.8 million hours with 1.2 fatalities. That's 575 years spent productive and 246 years nonproductive.
In other words, comparing the 65 mph constrained robocar with robocars and people going 75mph:
- If nobody takes the wheel manually because they want to go faster, going 65mph saves 0.2 fatalities but costs 36 years of productive time, about half a lifetime.
- If everybody takes the wheel to go faster, there are 0.8 extra fatalities and more than 6 full 80-year lifetimes of productive time is spent driving.
- If just 20 percent of people take the wheel, we get 1.2 fatalities and 129 extra years of productive time lost.
Clearly the option where people take the wheel is inferior for all. People have many opinions about how they would contrast 0.2 fatalities with 36 years of life wasted. On a pure time basis, 0.2 fatalities probably maps to about 8 years since on average half a lifetime is lost in a fatality. But you may view a death as far more tragic than 80 years of 16-hour days spent wasted, since that is spread out over many people. But there is an argument that even the pure "nobody switches to manual" scenario is not necessarily better, or only marginally better, and the reality is that plenty of people would switch (or simply not get a robocar at all) making the move a clear loss. By the time 20 percent of people are taking the wheel because they are in a hurry, the speeding robocar is clearly the superior result by any metric—based on these assumptions.
Yes, math that puts values on human lives is complex and difficult, though I think that it's easier to see an equivalence between lost time and lives than it is to see one between dollars and lives.
Nonetheless, I believe the math and other arguments clearly show that robocars should be allowed to move faster than the speed limit so long as they are rated suitably safe in the particular conditions, and the bulk of other traffic is also doing this.
The French system is almost surely better. With the fixed 130 kph (80 mph) limit, there is no issue to resolve. Robocars would be able to easily move the speed of traffic, and people would not disengage just to drive faster than the limit with the strict enforcement.
It should be noted that higher speeds use more fuel, at least at these levels. This is an independent variable, however. People routinely value their time more than the fuel cost and want to go faster, no matter what the means of transportation. If their car won't go faster and waste energy when they tell it to, they will take the manual controls. The way to solve energy waste is to put the environmental concerns into the price of the fuel.
Minor code violations
Speeding is just one of the code violations almost everybody does. There are many other examples. One that Google reported early on was handling a four-way stop. They found that if they were not a little aggressive in asserting their turn at the stop, others would quickly grab the slot, and the car would sit waiting for a long time. So they programmed the car to try to go on its turn even if somebody else was also trying to steal the slot, though it will eventually yield in a true game of chicken. Fortunately, there is always somebody who will be polite and yield when it was not their turn.


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Tired of stomping your cans to make more fit in the recycle bin? Pulling down on a manual crusher just isn't quite easy enough and takes too long if you have a whole bag of cans brought in that needs crushing. That's why you need a pneumatic auto-crusher that crushes the can with 300 lbs. of force and auto-ejects them down into the bin! Or some kind of machine with a big hopper on top that you can just dump all the cans in at once, walk away, and have a bin full of individually crushed cans when you get back from doing more important work!
Here are some examples of how this might work:
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Seminar: Basics Of Backyard Composting
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On April 17, 2012, at 6:30 p.m., the City of Cincinnati Office of Environmental Quality, and the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden will be hosting a guest speaker from the Hamilton County Recycling and Solid Waste District for an hour-long evening seminar focusing on the basics of backyard composting.
You will learn how to balance a compost bin, what materials are compostable, and some troubleshooting. There will also be time to answer your composting questions.
At the end of the hour, you will receive a free kitchen collector, as well as a $20 coupon redeemable at partnering stores toward the purchase of a compost bin.
The Composting in Your Backyard seminar will be held at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden (3400 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45220).
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- March 15: Colerain Township
- March 21: Loveland
- April 3: Blue Ash
- April 26: Deer Park
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Free agent pitcher Ryan Dempster and the Chicago Cubs have reached agreement on a $52 million, four-year contract that includes a player option to 2012.
Dempster was 17-6 with a 2.96 ERA for the Cubs last season after making the switch back from closer to starter. The 31-year-old right-hander saved 87 games in 107 chances as the Cubs' closer from 2005-07. But after earning a spot in the rotation during spring training, Dempster returned to the starter's
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The Real World of Adjunct and Temporary Faculty in Higher Education
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A number of years ago, I saw a small ad in the American Marketing Association (AMA) newsletter looking for members of the pharmaceutical-business community who were qualified to serve as adjunct faculty to staff a new Pharmaceutical Executive MBA program. Soon I was teaching two courses on Qualitative and Quantitative Marketing Research Methods. The emphasis in my courses and all others was to provide a "real world" perspective that combines pedagogical rigor with content informed by aspects of current business practices in pharmaceutical companies.
Since 1990, the program has thrived and grown. A recent return on investment (ROI) analysis done by one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world revealed a four-dollar return on every dollar invested in tuition for pursuing the MBA degree offered by the program. This ROI determination is important because the program's tuition is typically 100 percent reimbursed by the business where the students work.
The year before I joined the St. Joseph's University Executive MBA program as an adjunct faculty member, I got a call from Professor Mike Etzel at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Etzel runs the AMA School of Marketing Research that is jointly sponsored by the AMA and the College. …


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Novotechnik U.S. introduces the Vert-X 31E Series of programmable rotary angle sensors. The sensors are touchless magnetic angle sensors with a permanent magnet that can be secured to a rotating shaft, so that there is no direct mechanical linkage between the shaft and the measuring system, and therefore no wear. The Vert-X 31E Series is programmed through a programming device connected between the sensor and a computer's USB port and software called EasyAdapt which runs on Windows PCs. Users can select from six default set-ups or use one as a starting point and customize it. Output characteristics including custom characteristic curve, angle range, zero point, and curve- as well as gradient-direction versus direction of rotation can be programmed. Key specifications for Vert-X 31E include 31 mm profile, 0 to 360° measurement range, resolution to 14-bit, repeatability of 0.1° or better, and maximum hysteresis of 0.1°. Eight output options are available: 0.1 to 10 V, 0.5 to 4.5 V, 4 to 20 mA, 10 to 90% of power supply, SSI, PWM, Incremental and SPI.
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|The Unnecessarily Dark Knight: "Man of Steel" and "This Is the End"
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|Written by Mike Schulz
|Monday, 17 June 2013 05:25
During the final third of director Zack Snyder's Superman reboot Man of Steel, Henry Cavill's caped crusader and Michael Shannon's villainous General Zod take turns pummeling each other into Smallville storefronts and Metropolis skyscrapers, and the combined force of their Kryptonian blows routinely causes the edifices to tumble to the ground. For most of the length of this relentlessly noisy and dour superhero outing, it felt as though they were tumbling directly on my head.
God knows I've seen worse comic-book movies than this latest take on Superman's origin tale, and it's not as though Snyder's blockbuster doesn't feature quite a bit that's deserving of praise. The Smallville detours, with a just-right Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as our hero's foster parents, are low-key and lovely and sometimes really clever; a particularly satisfying scene finds a grade-school Clark Kent panicking when he's unable to effectively harness his x-ray vision. And every time our flying champion of truth, justice, and the American way breaks the sound barrier, the exceptional visual and sound effects provide a giddy rush. (Enjoy the moment in which Superman performs this miraculous feat for the first time, because you won't be getting many more opportunities to see Cavill smile.)
But taken overall, I can't think of a more glum, heavy-spirited, or oppressive superhero entertainment than Man of Steel, a movie that takes itself and its stilted, prosaic dialogue so strenuously seriously that I, for one, had little choice but to chuckle at it. From the endless, catastrophic preamble on Krypton, with Russell Crowe typically morose as Superdad Jor-El, to the tiresome, unimaginatively staged demolition of the final sequences, the film sags from the weight of its presentation and pretensions – cue Snyder's relentless Second Coming imagery – and even worse, it's criminally short on jokes. (Remember Gene Hackman's and Ned Beatty's goofy monkeyshines in Richard Donner's 1978 Superman and its first sequel? Man, those were the days. You can count this new work's lighthearted moments on the fingers of one hand.) Superman hasn't gone dark in Man of Steel so much as he's gone incredibly uninteresting, and considering how over-stuffed the movie is with impressively rendered but sadly generic feats of derring-do – our poor world-beater can't walk four paces without running into an oil-rig explosion or school-bus calamity or unexpected twister – the sameness of it all finally proves exhausting. (Even normally alert performers such as Amy Adams, Christopher Meloni, and Michael Kelly look tired from the effort of showing up and reading lines.) At the moment of Krypton's ultimate destruction, Superman's mom Lara (Ayelet Zurer) mutters, "This is the end," and the moment might have been touching for me had I not been actively wishing that I was instead at another screening of ...
Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Craig Robinson, and numerous other comic talents, all playing lightly satiric versions of themselves, face the apocalypse in the verbal- and visual-gag-laden slapstick This Is the End ... although a more accurate title might well have been It's the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel High. Directed and co-written by Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who previously collaborated on the script for Superbad, the movie finds a group of Hollywood's privileged few spending Earth's final days smoking weed and battling human and biblical intruders over at James Franco's place. For the vast majority of the film's 100 minutes, I rarely felt the desire to be any other place.
Every once in a while, as when our secluded stoners enjoy a Day-Glo trip-out or enact The Exorcism of Jonah Hill, the movie feels a bit like a raucous party that you're not invited to, with the cast members clearly entertaining themselves but not really bothering to ensure that we're equally entertained. Yet the momentary dead spots are handily outweighed by dozens upon dozens of cackle-worthy lines and clever fringe touches – our heroes participate in frequent "video diary" confessions in which they talk into the same camcorder, we're told, that Franco stole from the set of 127 Hours – and against all odds, the film finally proves as touching as it is hysterical. (Or at least as touching as any movie that climaxes with Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" and a Backstreet Boys reunion can be.) Connoisseurs of celebrity cameos, meanwhile, will have an absolute field day. It would already be more than enough for This Is the End to give us Rogen's and Baruchel's spiky bromance, Franco's brilliantly meta deconstruction, Hill's riotously arrogant attempts at prayer ("It's me ... Jonah Hill ... from Moneyball ... "), and a Danny McBride who's more howlingly hilarious here than he's ever before been on-screen. But also included among the astonishing lineup of the soon-to-be-departed are Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Mindy Kaling, Aziz Ansari, Rihanna, Kevin Hart, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Krumholtz, and an ax-wielding Emma Watson. Oh yeah, and a coked-up Michael Cera. And Channing Tatum in gimp gear. I'd describe more, but I'm running late for another screening of this thing.
For a review of Before Midnight, see "Walking the Walk, Talking the Talk."
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May 4, 2016
Hurricane season is officially over! This means the Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross can take an evening off.
Red Cross volunteers and their families gathered at the 9th annual "end of hurricane season cookout."
Volunteers say the food was good, the company even better as they shared stories of an unforgettable hurricane season.
Molly Coner, a volunteer, commented on the cookout.
"It's a good feeling to try to say thank you to all the volunteers that have helped ou through the hurricane season starting with Arlene. They do so much for us and this is kind of like a thank you."
The Capital Area Chapter has seen a busy this hurricane season. Volunteers responded to Tropical Storm Arlene and Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma.
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