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Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) - Common daily tasks that, when they are unable to be performed, can serve as a "trigger" to obtain benefits from a long-term care insurance policy. Common ADLs include bathing, dressing, toileting, continence, and eating.
Any-Occupation Disability Insurance - The most restrictive and least costly type of disability insurance policy that pays benefits only when the insured is unable to engage in any type of employment. Policyholders are not considered disabled unless there is no type of work they can do.
Basic Medical Coverage - A health insurance policy that covers expenses such as a hospital room, hospital services, surgical care, anesthetics, medical equipment and, sometimes, outpatient care. Medical expenses are covered as either a service (percentage) or indemnity (fixed sum) benefit. Basic health insurance policies generally consist of three parts in combination: hospital insurance, surgical insurance, and physician expense insurance.
Benefit Coordination - Clause in a health insurance contract designed to prevent people from collecting from two policies for the same expense. The total claim cannot exceed 100% of the cost and a secondary plan makes payment only after the primary plan has paid its portion.
COBRA - An acronym for the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act, a 1986 law that provides an option for continued health insurance upon separation from an employer. The only exception is workers who are fired for "gross misconduct." Employers with 20 or more workers must offer to continue health benefits for departing workers for up to 18 months. Workers may be required to pay up to 102% of the cost of premiums (the full cost plus a 2% administrative surcharge). Workers have 63 days from their date of separation to apply for COBRA benefits.
Consumer-Driven Health Plans (CDHPs) - Insurance plans designed to make users feel the effects of health-care expenses in order to contain costs. CDHPs typically consist of a high-deductible managed health care plan combined with either an employer-funded health reimbursement account (HRA) or a tax-deductible health savings account (HSA).
Coinsurance - The amount (usually stated as a percentage; e.g., 20%) of a claim that an insured person is expected to pay out-of-pocket up to the stop-loss limit. A common split found on health insurance policies is that the policy pays 80% of expenses with the insured paying (i.e., coinsuring) the remaining 20%.
Copayment - The amount (usually stated as a dollar amount; e.g., $5 or $10) that an insured person must pay out of pocket for a medical service (e.g., doctor's office visit) or prescription drug.
Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) - Clause in an insurance policy that increases the benefit amount to keep pace with inflation.
Deductible - The amount (usually a flat dollar amount; e.g., $500) of a claim that an insured person must pay out-of-pocket before an insurance policy makes payment for the remainder of the loss. The higher the deductible on a policy, the lower the premium (inverse relationship).
Disability Insurance - Type of insurance that replaces lost earnings when someone is unable to work due to accident or illness.
"Dread Disease" Insurance (e.g., Cancer Policies) - Very narrowly defined health insurance policies that cover only one cause of death (e.g., cancer). Most financial experts consider single-disease policies to be a very poor value because the benefits are so limited. A much better option is major medical coverage with a high upper limit.
Elimination Period - The number of days (e.g., 30 days or 90 days), starting from the date of an insurable event, before benefits are paid on certain types of insurance policies (e.g., long-term care, disability).
Excess Major Medical Insurance - A type of health insurance policy designed to take effect when ordinary major medical coverage benefits have been exhausted. It is highly recommended for people with a low major medical policy upper limit of less than $250,000.
Exclusions - Risks that are not covered by an insurance policy.
Family and Medical Leave - Federal law that provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for use during a medical crisis to care for oneself or a family member. Employees of companies with 50 or more workers are eligible and are guaranteed a return to their previous (or a similar) job and health benefits during the time that they are away.
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) - They are also known as "cafeteria" or "125" plans, for Section 125 of the IRS tax code. FSAs allow workers to fund an account through salary reduction and withdraw the funds, as needed, for medical expenses. Any unspent funds left in an FSA at the end of each year are forfeited so it is important to carefully estimate the amount of money needed.
Group Health Insurance Plan - Health care coverage that is sold collectively to a group of people (e.g., employees of a company) rather than to individuals. Group coverage is generally less expensive than individual coverage because the costs and risks are spread over a large group.
Guaranteed Renewable - An insurance policy that will continue for life or until a certain specified age, assuming no lapse in premium payments. Premiums will not increase unless they are raised for everyone with the same type of policy.
Health Finance Literacy - The ability to understand topics such as health care costs and benefits, how health insurance works, and health coverage rules, policy exclusions, and enrollment options.
Health Insurance - Type of insurance that provides protection against financial losses resulting from an illness or injury.
Health Management Benefits - Benefits and incentives provided by employers and insurers to promote a healthy lifestyle. Examples include: cash payments for weight loss, health club memberships, use of exercise equipment, free pedometers, and weight control support groups.
Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRAs) - Money set aside by employers to reimburse workers for qualified medical expenses.
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) - Tax-sheltered accounts, set up and funded by eligible individuals, that are earmarked to pay for medical expenses and are designed to be used in conjunction with high-deductible health plans. Account owners are free to spend the money on any type of medical service desired. Whatever amount is not spent each year can be carried forward.
High-Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) - As defined by federal legislation, a high deductible health plan has a deductible of at least $1,000 for individual coverage and $2,000 for family coverage.
Indemnity Benefit - Payment by a health insurance policy of a fixed amount toward the cost of covered medical expenses. An example is a policy that pays $350 per day for hospital charges. Most financial experts consider indemnity coverage to be a poor value because the benefits are only a fraction of typical charges. A much better option is major medical coverage with a high upper limit.
Long-Term Care Insurance - Type of insurance that covers the cost of support services (e.g., home health care and nursing home care) when someone is unable to perform basic activities of daily living such as bathing, eating, and dressing.
Major Medical Coverage- Health insurance protection above and beyond basic medical benefits. Upper limits provided by major medical coverage can range from a low $10,000 up to $1 million and some policies have no maximum. If the upper limit is $250,000 or less, an excess major medical policy is recommended to protect against catastrophic losses that exceed the maximum coverage limit.
Managed Care Health Insurance- Coverage provided by a health maintenance organization (HMO) or preferred provider organization (PPO) that emphasizes wellness and preventative care, controls the care that is provided, especially by specialists, and places limits on the selection of medical providers.
Medicaid- Combined federal and state health insurance program for eligible low-income persons.
Medicare - Federal health insurance program for people age 65 and older. Part A covers hospitalization and Part B covers treatment in a doctor's office or hospital outpatient department.
Medigap Insurance- Standardized policies (ranging from A to J, in order of increasing benefits) that are sold to persons age 65 and over to pay for expenses that are not covered by Medicare.
Noncancellable - An insurance policy that will continue for life or a certain age, without an increase in cost, assuming no lapse in premium payments.
Open Enrollment Period - The period of time each year, typically one full month, where participants in a group health insurance plan can begin or make changes in their coverage or switch among alternative plan providers (e.g., HMOs).
Own-Occupation Disability Insurance - The least restrictive and most expensive type of disability insurance policy that defines disability as the inability to work in the particular field or trade for which an insured policyholder is trained.
Policy Limit - The highest dollar amount that an insurance policy will pay.
Preexisting Condition Clause- Language in a health insurance policy stating that medical conditions existing at the time that the policy is purchased will not be covered for a specified time period.
Premium - The fee that is charged to pay for insurance coverage.
Residual (Partial) Disability Benefits - Disability insurance benefits that are designed for disabled workers who return to work part-time. Residual disability benefits cover the difference between an insured worker's full- and part-time earnings.
Service Benefit - Payment by a health insurance company of a percentage of each covered expense.
Short-Term Health Insurance - A relatively inexpensive policy, often with a high deductible and a number of coverage limits, that typically lasts from 30 days to six months and is purchased by people who are graduating from school or are in between jobs.
Spend-Down Rules - Government regulations that stipulate the amount by which someone or their spouse must spend down their assets in order to qualify for Medicaid. Specific asset tests vary from state to state and limit a healthy spouse's liability in the case of married couples.
State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) - An agency, often affiliated with state/county offices of senior services, that provides free information and counseling about senior health insurance options (e.g., Medigap policies).
Stop-Loss Limit - A limit on the amount that a policyholder must make in coinsurance and out-of-pocket payments per year on an insurance policy. Generally the stop-loss limit is stated as a flat dollar amount (e.g, $5,000). Once the stop-loss limit has been reached, the health insurance company picks up all remaining expenses for the year.
Tiered Copayments - A cost containment method that is increasingly being used to influence the behavior of health plan participants and reduce health care costs. Different premiums are charged for different categories of prescription drugs such as a higher premium for "nonpreferred" drugs than for generic brands.
Worker's Compensation Insurance - Insurance coverage, provided according to state law, that requires employers to pay benefits to workers injured on the job. Worker's compensation benefits include the cost of medical expenses, recuperative care, and replacement of lost income.
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Man suing State over orphanage
A MAN has sued the State alleging that, when a nineyear-old orphan, he was "boarded out" to work as a farm boy in "quasi-servitude".
The now 50-year-old man is also suing a religious order that ran the orphanage where he had lived from when he was a baby until he was boarded out.
He alleges he was sexually abused by other children in the orphanage.
The HSE, the Minister for Health and the religious order deny his claim and want the case struck out on grounds of delay. The case began 12 years ago. Suzanne Boylan, counsel for the man, said he initiated the High Court proceedings before a redress board claim.
While the board recently sanctioned an interim payment of €10,000 for him, it had reserved its position on compensation for his period of "boarding out" as a farm boy.
The man is unwell and not in a position to give immediate instructions, counsel added.
Ms Boylan said she wanted an adjournment to take instructions but hoped the matter could be resolved through the redress board.
Gerard Clarke SC, for the Minister, Ireland and the Attorney General, said the man's claim related to a period from 1971 to 1981 when he was boarded out to a brother and sister in the west of Ireland.
He had attended a respected secondary school in Sligo and University College Galway and went on to obtain a professional qualification.
The brother and sister to whom he was boarded out had since died and there was no one else to give evidence as to his treatment, counsel said.
The State's ability to defend the case was therefore completely and totally prejudiced.
Mr Justice Hogan noted the man's claim appeared to be that he was held in a position of quasi-servitude while boarded out.
If the redress board resolved the matter in his favour, legal costs would be the only outstanding matter, the judge said.
He "earnestly hoped" a decision could be made by the board before the case returned before him in five weeks, he added.


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The $6 million legal battle between Robin Williams and movie bosses of 'Cop Out' has been dismissed on February 4, making the actor loses the fight.
Funnyman Robin Williams has lost a $6 million legal battle with movie bosses who allegedly hired him as the original star of Bruce Willis' forthcoming film "Cop Out". The comedian sued bosses at Gold Circle Films, claiming he was hired to star in the movie, originally titled "A Couple of Dicks", and was entitled to the fee whether or not it was made.
Gold Circle bosses gave up the rights, acquired by Warner Bros., and Willis was hired for the revamped film. The defendants claimed a "play or pay" fee was not entered in their contract with Williams. The case was dismissed on Thursday morning, February 4.
Though he lost the role in "Cop Out", Robin Williams will be seen portraying John Fischer in upcoming movie "Wedding Banned". In the big screen project, which is scheduled to be released in the U.S. in 2011, the 58-year-old actor will star opposite Anna Faris and Diane Keaton.


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Amber Heard: GUESS Girl Fragrance Launch Lady
Taking care of some promotional duties, Amber Heard showed up at the GUESS Girl Fragrance Launch in New York City last night (October 18).
The "Rum Diary" dame looked stunning as she hammed it up with Coty Beauty honcho Steve Mormoris at Palazzo Chupi, sporting a lacy white top with black trousers.
And it sounds like Amber will be steaming up the screen as Miss San Antonio when "Machete Kills" hits the silver screen next year.
Rumor has it, Miss Heard performs a titillating lap dance for none other than Machete himself, Danny Trejo, during the course of the film.


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January 2013 - CDC Public Health Law News
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In this Edition
Journal article on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis. The Public Health Law Program is proud to announce the publication of State Adolescent Consent Laws and Implications for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, in the January 2013 edition of the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. The article was co-authored by Lindsay Culp, J.D., M.P.H., and Lisa Caucci, J.D., M.A., of the CDC's Public Health Law Program. Recent large clinical trials have found that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) reduced HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM), but efforts to provide clinical care to minors, including young MSM, may be complicated by a lack of clarity regarding parental consent requirements with respect to medical services. The article analyzes laws related to minors' ability to consent to medical care, including HIV diagnostic testing and treatment, and their implications for the PrEP. Find more information and read the article.
National Health Policy Conference. The 13th annual National Health Policy Conference (NHPC) will be held in Washington, D.C. at the Grand Hyatt Washington, February 4–5, 2013. NHPC is the nation's first comprehensive look at the year ahead in health policy, providing an insider's perspective on the nation's health policy agenda. This conference brings together senior health care decision makers, drawing more than 800 leaders from academia, government, foundations, hospitals, and the health care industry. Registration ends January 28, 2013. Find more information and register for the conference.
Injury prevention webinars. The Network for Public Health Law has partnered with the Children's Safety Network to produce a new webinar series exploring injury prevention through policies. The next webinar, Implementation of State Youth Concussion Laws: Perspectives from the Frontlines, will take place on January 24, 2013, 2:30–4 pm (EST). This webinar will provide an update on states' youth concussion laws, as well as preliminary results from an interview survey with state officials and organizational leaders charged with implementation of these laws in their own states. Three presenters with different organizational perspectives will share their experiences in implementing the laws in their states. Presenters include Kerri McGowan Lowrey, J.D., M.P.H, Deputy Director, The Network for Public Health Law—Eastern Region, University of Maryland Francis Carey School of Law; Carlene Pavlos, M.T.S., Director, Division of Violence and Injury Prevention, Massachusetts Department of Public Health; and Gary Matthews, Executive Director, Alaska School Activities Association. The session moderator is Cindy Rodgers, M.S.P.H., Project Specialist, Children's Safety Network. Find more information and register for the webinar.
Underage drinking prevention webinar. The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD) is hosting a webinar series, Preventing Underage Drinking, this month. The first presentation is on January 30, 2013, from 2–3 pm (EST). This first webinar in the series will provide an overview of the issue and of the series. It will begin with introductions from Dr. Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and ICCPUD Chair, Administrator Hyde. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Acting Director Warren will then provide an overview of the nature and extent of the problem, and Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Director Harding will discuss the "shape of the solution." Following their presentations, Director Harding and Acting Director Warren will engage with participants in a live question-and-answer period. Find more information and register for the webinar.
Affordable Care Act implementation webinar. On January 17 at 1–2 pm (EST) the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME) is hosting Effects of the Election on Future Implementation of the ACA. The webinar includes features three presenters, Dr. Susan Polan, Eli Briggs and Jina Dhillon. Ms. Dhillon will provide a detailed look at what the Supreme Court decision did and did not do, and describe ongoing lawsuits challenging it. Dr. Polan will provide a broad overview of what the election means for the ACA at the federal level and describe some of the ACA's initiatives that impact public health. Ms. Briggs will provide a more "on the ground" look at how the ACA is being implemented at the state and local level, as well as suggestions for actions health departments can take in light of its passage and the current political environment. The webinar will be archived and posted online after the event. Find more information and access the archived webinar.
O'Neill Institute accepting Law Fellow applications. The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, which is housed at Georgetown University Law Center, is seeking exceptionally qualified candidates to serve as O'Neill Institute Law Fellows. Fellowship terms are one year, with possible extension to two years, and will begin autumn 2013. Fellows receive an annual salary of $65,000 with outstanding benefits. Candidates must have a J.D. Applications must include: CV, cover letter, writing sample, professional references, official law school transcripts, and other graduate school transcripts (if applicable). The application deadline is Friday, February 22, 2013. Any questions about the position should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com. Find more information about the fellowship.
Funding opportunity with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Law Research Program (PHLR). PHLR invites current Ph.D. students in accredited doctoral degree programs to apply. Dissertation Grants will be awarded for up to $20,000 each for twelve months maximum. These grants apply to 1) qualitative or quantitative studies of the health effects of specific laws or regulations and/or related underlying mechanisms of effect and 2) mapping studies—empirical legal research that creates a multi-jurisdictional data set of laws suitable for quantitative research. Mapping studies require the integration of legal analysis and public health research to ensure that the important dimensions of the relevant laws are accurately and comprehensively measured. Beyond the monetary support provided by the awards, the program offers awardees the opportunity to share research progress and network at the PHLR 2014 Annual Meeting. Travel support for the PHLR Annual Meeting is covered by the National Program Office and should not be included in the application budget. Up to $100,000 will be available under this program. Deadline for proposals is February 15, 2013. Find more information and read the call for proposals [PDF - 163KB.
Legal Tools
Sodium reduction tools. To support Americans' New Year's health and nutrition goals and in advance of American Heart Month, the Public Health Law Program (PHLP) has released a series of legal resources on dietary sodium reduction. According to CDC, excess dietary sodium raises the risk for high blood pressure and its cardiovascular health consequences, including heart disease and stroke, the first and fourth leading causes of death in the United States. As part of a longstanding collaboration with the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention in CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, PHLP highlights six legal resources and six policy toolkits for practitioners seeking to reduce dietary sodium in discrete populations. Access the policy resources and toolkits.
Ethics training manuals. As part of CDC's ongoing efforts to support state and local health departments, the Public Health Ethics Unit developed a training manual to strengthen public health ethics capacity at the local level. The manual includes an introduction to public health ethics, relevant case studies, suggestions for integrating ethics into health departments, and additional resources. Find more information and download the Student Manual.
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National: Looking for a match
New York Times (01/02/2013) Abby Ellin
A company called New Color Iris allegedly marketed a device capable of implanting an artificial or prosthetic iris, the colored part of the eye surrounding the pupil, over an individual's natural iris. Such an implant changes the color and overall appearance of the individual's eye. The implants, however, are not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), absent grave medical circumstances. Individuals who reside in the U.S. and leave the U.S. to have the unapproved surgery circumvent the FDA's approval, but often receive negative surgical results.
Many seek to change their eye color; colored contact lenses made up about 20 percent of the $7.8 billion global contact lens market in 2011, according to a January 2012 report by BCC Market Research. The FDA approves iris implants under the Humanitarian Device Exemption (see section 520(m) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [PDF - 166KB]), which is only available people with severe conditions, such as aniridia, a rare condition with partial or total iris absence. Those who seek the surgery purely for cosmetic reasons must leave the U.S. to receive the surgery.
Anita Adams, who had two differently colored irises, also known as heterochromia, traveled to Panama in 2008 to have the surgery. Initially, she was pleased with the surgery, even becoming a spokesperson for New Color Iris, but in 2010 her vision grew "spotty" and she began to fear she was going blind. Repeated attempts to contact New Color Iris were unsuccessful. After being diagnosed with glaucoma and cataracts, her implants were removed in early 2011. "My pupils are kind of oblong instead of round now, and my corneas are scratched, so I can't wear contact lenses," said Adams.
Dr. Gregory J. Pamel, a corneal and refractive surgeon in Manhattan, New York, and assistant professor of ophthalmology at New York University, reports receiving numerous calls over recent years seeking iris implants. "They'd want to enroll in the clinical trial, and I would say, 'There's nothing available in the U.S.'"
Other medical professionals, such as Dr. Kenneth Steinsapir, an oculofacial surgeon and ophthalmologist in Los Angeles, California, have been warning the public about it. Dr. Steinsapir blogged about the problem in 2010, "The colored disk that is put in the eye has been shown to cause harm. If you are not albino and missing iris pigment or have part of the iris missing either from a birth defect or from trauma, then there is no compelling medical reason for this surgery."
National: FDA offers broad new rules to fight food contamination
New York times (01/04/2013) Stephanie Strom
In recent years food contamination has sickened thousands in the U.S. On January 4, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released two proposed rules that work to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act, enacted in 2011.
The first proposed rule focuses on preventative controls for human food by setting safety requirements for facilities that "process, package, or store food for people." The FDA website indicates a separate rule will be promulgated for animal food. The second proposed rule deals with safe production and harvesting of fruits and vegetables.
Officials are optimistic that the new rules will be more effective due to their reliance on strong scientific methods. According Michael R. Taylor, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, "These new rules really set the basic framework for a modern, science-based approach to food safety and shift us from a strategy of reacting to problems to a strategy for preventing problems."
While funding remains a concern, the changes include record-keeping requirements, outbreak contingency plans, and other measures to halt the spread of contaminated food products. The rules are open for public comment for 120 days. Three other proposed rules still await release.
[Editor's note: Find more information and comment on the proposed food safety rules.]
Briefly Noted
Alabama: New laws crack down on uninsured drivers and human trafficking
New Alabama law targets drivers without insurance
AL.com (12/25/2012)
Alaska: Law requiring coverage of autism spectrum disorders takes effect
Autism bill, other measures set to take effect
Juneau Empire (01/01/2013) Becky Bohrer
California: Registered nurses able to dispense birth control under new law
Nurses can dispense hormonal birth control in California, but new law draws controversy
Huffington Post (01/05/2013) Kim Lamb Gregory
Illinois: New law mandates radon testing in daycare centers
Illinois daycare centers now must test for radon
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier (01/04/2013)
[Editor's note: Find more information about Illinois's radon awareness activities and read the law.]
Maryland: Arsenic banned in chicken feed
New Md. laws include ban on arsenic in chicken feed
Baltimore Sun (12/29/2012) Michael Dresser
Massachusetts: Mayor declares influenza emergency, worst flu season since 2009
700 cases of flu prompt Boston to declare emergency
USA Today (01/10/2013) Elizabeth Weise and Melanie Eversley
[Editor's note: Find more information and read Mayor Menino's declaration.]
Vermont: States file with federal court for nuclear waste site re-evaluation
Vermont, NY seek more review of nuke waste storage
Burlington Free Press (01/03/2013)
National: Schools grapple with allergy policies and allergy-based bullying
Allergy Bullying: When food is a weapon
CNN (01/05/2013) Elizabeth Landau
National: Approved anti-diarrheal drug may increase HIV/AIDS therapy compliance
Company: FDA approved diarrhea drug
USA Today (01/02/2013)
National: Concerns raised about affordability of family coverage
Employers must offer family care, affordable or not
New York Times (12/31/2012) Robert Pear
National: Seventeen states and D.C. approved to run health insurance exchanges
More states cleared to operate health insurance exchanges
Los Angeles Times (01/04/2013) Noam N. Levey
Feature Profile in Public Health Law
Lindsay Wiley
Title: Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director
Organization: Health Law and Justice Program, American University Washington College of Law
Education: J.D., Harvard University, M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Matthew Pierce
Title: Associate Director
Organization: Health Law and Justice Program, American University Washington College of Law
Education: J.D., Georgetown University, M.P.H. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
CDC Public Health Law News (PHLN): What was your route to the Health Law and Justice Program (HLJP) in terms of education and career choices?
Wiley: When I made the move onto the law school tenure track, I sought an institution that would be supportive of my efforts to build a health law program and I've found a wonderful home for that work here at American University Washington College of Law. The law school had an existing Health Law and Policy Project, which our program built upon by adding a scholarship and research focus.
Pierce: I was drawn to HLJP largely because of Lindsay's and the law school's commitment to promoting public health, civil liberties, and social justice. I became interested in how these societal goals relate to one another during law school, and my career decisions have all been guided by my desire to explore those relationships and promote these three goals.
My first full-time job out of law school was as a public defender in Baltimore City, an experience that made me sensitive to how laws (even well-intentioned public health laws) can disproportionately burden already marginalized populations. As just one example, seatbelt laws have undoubtedly saved thousands of lives, but in many Baltimore neighborhoods, these laws also provide police a convenient means to circumvent the Fourth Amendment. It does not take long working as a public defender, however, to realize that defending individuals from government overreach (while extremely important) does little to change the underlying factors that cause most people to become entangled in the criminal justice system in the first place.
During my last year as a public defender, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to participate in a pilot program that sought to incorporate some public health principles into public defense by connecting clients to support services and helping them address some of the collateral consequences of their criminal records. I still believe that this is the best model for public defense, but it is still secondary prevention at the individual level, and I was interested in exploring broader level changes. I was, therefore, thrilled to have the opportunity at the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center on a couple projects that examined colleges' and employers' use of criminal histories to screen applicants. This practice, which appears to be growing, has yet to be rigorously evaluated from a public health perspective and has the potential to disproportionately burden populations with higher arrest and conviction rates. Moreover, criminal screening could be harmful to public health because it prevents prior offenders from building alternative career paths to crime.
Although the projects I worked on at UNC have ended, I hope to continue to explore this line of research, and I am grateful that my position at HLJP will allow me to conduct public health law research while helping to build a broader health law program committed to promoting civil liberties and social justice.
PHLN: What initially sparked your interest in public health and, more specifically, public health law?
Wiley: As a law student at Harvard, I came to health law via my initial interest in disability law. I found the questions surrounding the definition of "disability" fascinating and exploring those led me to broader questions about defining illness and health that eventually led me to health law. At that time, there weren't many course offerings available, but through part-time work at the American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME), I gained exposure to a broad range of cutting edge questions in health law research and scholarship. This was just after September 11, and there was an explosion of public health law scholarship going on. I found it absolutely fascinating. I was editing articles for the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, including truly groundbreaking work by Larry Gostin, Wendy Parmet, Scott Burris, James Hodge, and others whom I am now lucky enough to count as colleagues, mentors, and friends.
Pierce: I don't think there is any single event that sparked my interest in public health or public health law. Certainly, the fact that my father spent most of his career in public health played a part in my decision to pursue an M.P.H., but I think my interest in the field stems mostly from my belief that differences among populations are best explained by social and environmental variation. When we are able to compare two populations and accurately predict that one population will have significantly worse health outcomes, it is, in most cases, evidence of injustice. Working in public health law allows me to think about how to address some of those injustices.
PHLN: Please describe HLJP's projects and activities.
Pierce and Wiley: HLJP serves as a hub for the health law activities at our law school. We help coordinate the health law curriculum, including our LL.M. Health Law Specialization and our Health Law & Policy Summer Institute—a two-week session in which we offer ten to eleven intensive health law courses on cutting edge topics for practitioners and law students alike. We organize conferences and events on health law topics; we provide academic and career counseling for students interested in health law; and we help support the two student health law groups at the Washington College of Law: the Health Law and Policy Brief, which is the school's biannual health law publication, and the Health Law and Justice Society, which organizes symposia, career panels, and networking events for students interested in health law.
HLJP also conducts public health law research. Lindsay's most recent research has focused primarily on public health legal theory, including the appropriate scope of public health law and responses to allegations of "nanny-statism." She's also working on several projects surrounding the promotion of healthy eating and physical activity and reduction of weight bias as a public health objective. Matt's main current research project involves mapping state prescription monitoring program laws over the past decade and evaluating their effect on overdose deaths from prescription opioids.
PHLN: What do you see as law professors' role in the development of public health law?
Pierce: I think two of the most pressing roles for public health law professors are to 1) articulate a coherent public health legal theory that courts can apply to uphold laws that promote public health and 2) convince more judges to incorporate that theory into their decisions. Professors Gostin and Parmet, among others, have made enormous contributions to step 1, but now I think public health law professors need to be thinking more about step 2.
Wiley: This is an issue we're actively engaged with here at HLJP. We're hosting a meeting this week to bring together public health law professors from across the country for a discussion of our role in creating a legal environment that is more conducive to the protection and promotion of population health.
Several legal doctrines with enormous importance to public health are currently in flux. We see deeply disturbing trends in the First Amendment protection of commercial speech (which put warning and disclosure requirements and other regulations at risk), preemption of local law by state law, and state law by federal law (which limits the authority of government actors with the greatest traditional responsibility for public health), and other areas as well. I'm particularly interested in the efforts of the food and beverage industry to defeat innovative interventions to address obesity-related health threats. They're using tactics straight out of the tobacco industry playbook.
As law professors, we can respond to these trends by helping to reframe the exploding national debate over public health in terms of collective community action to address problems that none of us is able to combat effectively acting alone. We can guide the development of the empirical evidence basis for existing and newly developing public health law interventions. We can innovate to develop legal interventions that more successfully navigate these (ever-changing) legal constraints and new legal arguments that attempt to reverse a trend toward what we view as improper developments in the law. These are all important and valuable functions that law professors are uniquely well positioned to perform, but they are difficult for us to engage in successfully in isolation.
The aim of this week's meeting is to promote greater coordination among us, and among our centers, with an eye toward more effective engagement with courts, legislatures, regulators, practitioners, and others.
PHLN: Please describe your respective job duties and projects within HLJP.
Pierce: As associate director, I'm responsible for many of the day-to-day activities of HLJP. I work with our LL.M. Program on Law and Government to develop our Health Law Specialization and with our adjunct faculty to develop both regular semester and summer courses. I provide academic and career counseling to J.D. and LL.M. students interested in health law. I help support the law school's two student health law organizations: the Health Law and Policy Brief and the Health Law and Justice Society. I teach as an adjunct during the summer and one of the regular semesters. And I conduct public health law research and seek funding for future research projects.
Wiley: As the faculty director, I work closely with Matt to define and promote our program's strategic vision. I particularly enjoy working to shape the health law curriculum. Health law is such a broad and varied field and student interest in it is growing dramatically in response to exciting job opportunities. My primary role is as a teacher and legal scholar, but I find that my program responsibilities help keep me in touch with the rapidly developing field of health law as a whole and with trends in empirical research and grant funding in public health law in particular.
PHLN: One of HLJP's primary missions is to advance the law field though research and training programs. What type of research and training programs do you offer?
Pierce: I am currently overseeing two research projects at the law school: one is a collaboration with researchers at UNC that involves mapping state prescription monitoring program laws over the past decade and evaluating their effect on overdose deaths from prescription opioids. The other is a collaboration with the Children's Dental Health Project and involves the administration and expansion of the Fluoride Legislative User Information Database or "FLUID," a web-based database containing historical information on legal cases decided by U.S. courts and current information on federal and state policies regarding community water fluoridation.
The Health Law and Policy Summer Institute and LL.M. Health Law Specialization are our primary media for training professionals. The Summer Institute is a great way for individuals who are considering returning to law school for an LL.M. to get a sense of the types of courses we offer, and all Summer Institute courses can be applied toward an LL.M. Health Law Specialization. The courses are also a wonderful way for health law professionals to stay up-to-date on developments in the law. We also offer conferences and events throughout the year through which professionals can earn CLE credit.
PHLN: What is the Health Law Policy Institute and how does it support HLJP's public health training mission?
Pierce and Wiley: The Health Law and Policy Summer Institute runs for two weeks at the end of each June and offers students and professionals the opportunity to take specialized health law and policy courses for academic or CLE credit. We are fortunate to have a dedicated summer faculty composed of leading health lawyers who blend theory and practice into their curricula so that participants gain an understanding of the high-level policy debates and of the concrete legal rules that have come out of those debates. We also organize several lunchtime events over the two weeks to give participants the chance to network outside of the classroom and to attend panel discussions on recent health law developments.
This summer we plan to offer eleven courses on a variety of topics, including public health litigation, health insurance exchanges, and global health and human rights. We are also introducing two new course "clusters": one will focus on health care fraud and abuse, and the other on legal regulation of the development and marketing of pharmaceuticals. The goal of these clusters is to allow participants to dig more deeply into these two rapidly developing areas of health law.
Each course will run for two full days or four evenings. Participants can choose to take just one course or to take courses throughout the full two weeks.
PHLN: What upcoming HLJP projects and events do you find particularly exciting?
Wiley: We're currently developing new research projects in areas relating to food labeling and obesity and we're very excited to get those off the ground over the next several months.
PHLN: Considering both domestic and global public health law arenas, what essential public health law challenges and changes do you anticipate in the coming year?
Pierce: Two public health law story lines that I will be watching closely this year are the response of gun control advocates to the series of mass shootings that occurred in 2012 and the response of the FDA to the D.C. Circuit's decision to invalidate its proposed graphic warning labels for cigarettes. I will be interested to see whether gun control advocates have enough momentum to make changes in gun laws . . . As a legal matter, I will be interested to see whether the D.C. Circuit's decision to invalidate the FDA's graphic warning labels is successfully challenged.
Wiley: The graphic warning decision in particular has enormous ramifications for a wide range of public health issues, In addition to the issues Matt mentioned, I'm going to be watching the implementation of the New York City portion rule for sugary drinks. It's an innovative—and woefully misrepresented—intervention that I think shows significant promise. I see it as conceptually related to the ban on the inclusion of toys or other incentive items targeted at kids in meals that fail to meet minimal nutritional standards. These kinds of changes to the food environment make healthier options (like smaller soda portions or apple slices instead of fries in meals heavily marketed to preschoolers) the default. They require people to affirmatively "opt in" if they want to make less healthy choices (by buying two cups, or by paying an extra fee for the toy).
PHLN: How can professionals as well as lay people learn more about HLJP and become more involved with public health law?
Pierce: Anyone interested in health law can learn more about our program, our Summer Institute, or our LL.M. Health law specialization by going to our website (http://www.wcl.american.edu/health/index.cfm) or by contacting us directly.
PHLN: If you were not working in public health law, what would you likely be doing?
Pierce: There is a part of me that misses working as a public defender and that, at the very least, wishes I had spent a few additional years developing my criminal defense skills before turning to public health research, so perhaps I would give that career another shot. I've also always thought it would be nice to be a dog walker.
Wiley: I don't know that it's "likely," but my alternative dream job would be to be a snarky TV recapper for Television Without Pity or maybe a film editor.
PHLN: Please describe any personal information, hobbies, or interests you care to share.
Wiley: We both have young children—Matt's a new dad and I have three kids. So we don't really have hobbies or interests at the moment. We're really quite boring, but happy.
PHLN: Have you read any good books lately?
Pierce: I'm proud to say that I was able to make it through Donald Crews's Freight Train in one sitting, despite the best efforts of my six-month old to eat most of the pages. Of less interest to my son, but of more interest to me, I've finally been reading Wendy Parmet's Populations, Public Health, and the Law, and I can't recommend it enough for anyone who is interested in public health law.
Wiley: I'm learning a lot from Benn McGrady's wonderful book, Trade and Public Health: The WTO, Tobacco, Alcohol, and Diet.
PHLN: Is there anything else you'd like to add?
Wiley: Perhaps there would be, but it's 5:00 and I'm going to have to run to go pick up the kids!
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Montana: City's degree of misconduct to be determined in park injury case
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Filed 12/21/2012
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Clark County v. Southern Nevada Health District
Supreme Court of Nevada
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Filed 12/06/2012
Opinion by Justice Michael Douglas
Federal: ACA does not violate substantive due process rights
Coons v. Geithner
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Talking to boys is an exciting part of a girl's life - well, exciting and potentially agonising ...How to Talk to Boys gives a realistic picture of the challenges and choices that face girls today when they're talking to boys. Written by a highly experienced educator, it provides a clear and informative guide to help girls through obstacles like shyness and awkwardness...Featuring 'uncut' individual comments from girls, this book links their ideas about their ability to develop boys as friends and looks at what is needed to further a friendship into a relationship. It's all about talking, listening and asking the kinds of questions that lead to healthy friendships and relationships. It's not rocket science!
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Language: English
Number Of Pages: 180
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Every Day's Prayer - Poem by Pushkar Bisht
O Almighty,
May a bright and cheerful
Morning knock at the door.
May all rays of the sun
Keep us holy and pure in thoughts.
May we hear the chirpings
Of beautiful birds
In our neighbourhood.
May my every breath
Take your name.
May my heart beat for you.
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Who is in a big trouble
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Not to lie any more
May we sing a song
For the world.
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May we not hurt anybody's feelings.
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The right path
Who has lost the way.
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May the moon scatter its light on us
May the stars twinkle like diamond in the sky
May our dreams come true
In the next morning with a prayer.
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Mexican poncho for Carnival and Wild West parties
Disguise yourself with our El Bandito Mexican poncho as Cowboy, also called Charro orVaquero! The Western Poncho forms for its colorful design a great costume accessory for the next carnival and Wild West themed celebration!
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FREE LDS Tot School & Preschool Printables!
It's my birthday! To celebrate my 08/08 birthday as well as 800 Facebook followers, I have a freebie for you all!
I'm so excited to announce a mini project I've been working on for a bit. I absolutely love my Walk Beside Me LDS Preschool Curriculum, but it is definitely geared towards older preschoolers. This K4 program assumes your child recognizes his or her letters and is starting to learn the sounds associated with each letter. Today I have a free download for you: LDS preschool printables for the youngest crowd!
It is designed to work with the Walk Beside Me curriculum or as a standalone activity (also: think FHE and Sacrament Meeting activities!) If you have an older child who is ready for Walk Beside Me, start your tot on these simple hands on activities that go right along with your theme for the week! If your child is a bit older, but perhaps not ready for some of the activities in Walk Beside Me, use the Lead Me, Guide Me set to fill out your weekly curriculum. This download contains 5 activities: a Do-A-Dot page, a coloring page, a collage page, a 'trace then write' page, and a phonics coloring page. (Look here for an excellent example of collage pages!) There are 130 total pages in this download alone!
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Would you do me just a quick little favor? Would you mind just filling out this quick little form? I'm contemplating some changes in the future for this little blog of mine, and I'd love your input.
Since my blog "niche" is just a wee bit scattered (uh, ADHD anyone??), I want to know why you are here reading this blog. Are you skipping every few posts, just waiting for the posts you're most interested in? Or are you loving every single word I write? (Ha ha.)
Filling this out should take you two minutes, max. Unless your kids interrupt you every twenty seven seconds while reading it, then I can't guarantee anything!
Review: LeapFrog Touch Magic Learning Bus #LFTouchMagic #spon
Last week, I reviewed the totally awesome LeapFrog Touch Magic Rockin' Guitar. (Refresher: it's awesome!) Today I'll be reviewing the equally awesome LeapFrog Touch Magic Learning Bus from LeapFrog. The alphabet bus has the same magical touching qualities that made the Rockin' Guitar on the cutting edge of toy technology.
Side note: would "toy tech" not be the coolest job ever?
Like its alphabet toy predecessors, this ABC toy is colorful and features all 26 letters of the alphabet. Unlike alphabet toys of the past, it has some cool characters and even piano buttons to make this toy a class all its own! There are three touch buttons along the top of the bus: Learning, Letter Exploration (games), and Music.
When you touch the Learning star, your child is invited to touch a letter. The first time you touch a letter it says, "H as in hammer," followed by a sound effect. Touch it again and it says, "H makes the sound huh." Then finally it reinforces when you touch a third time by saying, "H." So many toys emphasize the name of the letter, but for toddlers to make the leap (haha, no pun intended, but it's staying!) into reading, they need to learn the sound of the letter. I love that this serves as a gentle introduction into the sounds letters make!
Letter Exploration
This touch button is in the shape of a ball. When you touch it, the toy asks you to, "Touch a picture that makes the sound…" (then makes the appropriate sound effect, like a ringing telephone for the letter T." When you do so correctly, it reinforces, "that's the duck!" and plays the sound effect again. Or it may ask you to touch the letter P. These activities are a fun way to strengthen the connection between the name of the letter and the sound it makes.
My personal favorite part of the toy is the Music note touch button! A friendly voices calls, "Let's jam!" and asks you to touch a band member. As the song plays, you can add in different notes that each animal plays – the penguin will chime in with his tambourine, for instance. You can press a letter during the sound, which layers in the sounds of the letter, or create your own music on the piano keys.
This toy is a little more sedate than the Rockin' Guitar was for my children, which doesn't bother me. It is such a cute introduction to letters for my two year old, Abigail, that I think we'll be using this throughout the year! It's a great starting place for a child who is just starting to learn their letters.
Speaking of the Rockin' Guitar, the video contest is still going strong! Vote daily for a chance to win a $100 prize pack each week from LeapFrog. Enter your own video to win $500 cash!
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Review: LeapFrog Touch Magic Rockin' Guitar! #LFTouchMagic #spon
This month, I'll be sharing a couple of amazing new LeapFrog products with you. We love LeapFrog! We have everything from the Letter Factory DVD (which taught Nicole all her letter sounds!) to not one but two Leapster Explorers. In our home, LeapFrog is our go-to educational product; perfect for birthdays and Christmas and hey, let's call it homeschool 'curriculum,' okay? ;) Today I'll be reviewing the LeapFrog Touch Magic: Rockin' Guitar!
You guys.
Toys are so high tech now. It's crazy. They call this product line 'touch magic' and it seriously is magic.
The front of the guitar is a flat slick surface. Your children simply strum their fingers over the guitar 'strings' and the guitar starts playing. If you strum slow, the singing and music slow down. If you strum fast? The guitar speeds up as the singer starts singing really fast. It has extra fun buttons for jamming on the guitar – like a slide button, or a drum solo button, and you can even coordinate your own applause!
One thing I really liked about this guitar was that it has ten different songs. With all the customization features like the guitar solo, silly sounds, and a choice of acoustic or electrical guitar, this toy won't drive you crazy. You know the toys with poor recording, and they have one song choice? One song choice your child plays over and over and over and over until you start fantasizing about bashing it until a million pieces?
This toy is so not like that.
The Rockin' Guitar is totally an active-play toy. The music is so fun and upbeat, my children took turns being the person who played the guitar and the person who danced. Nicole got really into it, as you can see below. I loved how they worked together, and I love the shot (above) of Nicole showing Abigail how to play!
LeapFrog is holding a video contest on their website! Simply upload a photo of your child rocking out on their guitar or an air guitar/paper mache guitar/etc, and spread the word! You could win $500!! You can also vote daily for a weekly chance at winning $100 prize pack of Touch Magic toys. Now go make your own video!
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How to Organize Your Preschool Curriculum
Figuring out the best way to organize my Walk Beside Me LDS Preschool curriculum was one of the trickier aspects of my homeschool preschool experience. Eventually, I figured out what worked best for me, and I wanted to share that with you.
As you may know, homeschooling is a struggle with me because I have ADHD. Any extra planning required on a daily basis equals schooling that doesn't happen. I wanted my preschool curriculum to be very much open-and-go, without daily (or even weekly!) planning, printing, or coordinating. The system I figured out works to my advantage perfectly. Whether you're an ADHD mother trying to homeschool, or have several other kids to juggle while homeschooling your preschooler, this is an ideal way to get your homeschool set up!
First, I started with a file box. This is a Sterilite Showoffs File Box. (This is an affiliate link that will take you to a super cute green version, I like it even better than my orange box!) I love these boxes, I have several. In the file box I have 5 hanging file folders, and within those I have 5-6 tabbed folders. The first file folder has a folder for reusable worksheets (more about this later), then it holds a file for each letter of the alphabet. The remaining hanging file folders hold the remaining letters of the alphabet.
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Since the Walk Beside Me LDS preschool schedule uses "preschool pages" (i.e., worksheets from a book or found online), I stick in the Reusable Worksheets file anything that doesn't belong to a certain letter. If I had pulled out a 'shapes tracing' activity from a workbook but used a sheet protector and a dry erase marker, that can be used again and filed. If I didn't get to it that week and want to pull it out some other time, that can be used again. I won't remember unless I stick it in that front folder. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's talk about what's in each folder.
In each file folder, I place everything I will need for school that week. It is all laminated (if I desired to laminate it!) In the image below you can see my preschool schedule, all the worksheets, puzzles pasted onto cardstock that were laminated and cut out, a book of the week, and extra worksheets from Confessions of a Homeschooler that coordinate with that letter. I had considered laminating the schedule onto the folder itself, but I just didn't get around to doing that this time. I even cut out all the letters for these fun letter activities and placed all their parts in a baggie. At one point we had our Bob Books stored in each of the folders too, but they've since been taken out to be stored in the cute box they came in.
I could have broken my folders even further into days. In this scenario I would have had a hanging file folder for each week (like J pictured above) and then a tabbed folder for each of the three days scheduled. This would have made filling Nicole's workboxes a breeze. HOWEVER. Flexibility was my friend here. With the system as is with one weekly folder, I easily flipped through each of the worksheets and decided what I wanted to do that day. If we happened to have a
lazy busy week, I could combine some extra worksheets and remove extra activities to make a two-day schedule happen. I didn't want to feel like I was falling behind at any point. That was the deciding factor for making this work for me. If you like the super organized feeling, or don't want the pressure flexibility of deciding on a whim what printables you'll be doing on what day, then I would organize your folders just like the schedule outlines with a folder for each day.
This system was perfect for me. I really felt like I had control over how much school we did on a given week, but I never felt like I was 'behind' or had any guilt for skipping over activities. The best part of this system was at the end of the week, I just put everything back in the file folder. If you're good at remembering to refile things, and don't like the 'used worksheets' mixed in with the 'unused worksheets' for the week, you could make an extra file for what you've already done that week. I didn't have much of a problem with this, and had a box on my desk for any papers I wanted to keep in her memory binder.
Now you know the key to Slacker Mom homeschooling: have everything prepared beforehand, so you have little excuse for procrastinating! Bonus: I've got 90% of preschool prepared for my next daughter, since everything got re-filed!
How do you organize your preschool or homeschool? Do you think this system would work for you?


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The woman whose 911 call set in motion the events that led to the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates did not tell police during the call that the two men she saw forcing their way into a house were black.
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The release of the tape and a recording of subsequent police radio transmissions provided more details about the incident that has ignited a debate about race and racial profiling by police. The tapes do not explain how a routine call about a possible burglary led to Gates' arrest at home on a charge of disorderly conduct.
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According to the 911 call, Whalen wasn't sure a crime was taking place. She told a dispatcher she saw suitcases and didn't know whether the men lived in the house.
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Whalen, who works near Gates' home and was on her way to lunch when the incident occurred, spoke about it Monday through her lawyer, Wendy Murphy. According to Murphy, Whalen said officers did not interview her at the scene, she never said the men at the house were black, and the only thing she told Crowley was that she was the 911 caller.
Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas did not return calls seeking comment about the discrepancy. Haas told the Associated Press that the police report is merely a summary of the incident and not an exact chronology.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a black friend of Gates' who had called the arrest "every black man's nightmare," said Monday that he won't apologize for his remarks. A multiracial group of police officers supporting Crowley has demanded an apology.
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They did it last week as well with Cesaro shaking his head in disappointment at Swagger losing yet again.
That is to say, I've the impression that The Real Americans will disband like the Prime Time Players. Things that I've noticed about them recently.
Jack Swagger takes exception to being slapped in the face by Zeb Colter. It was done to motivate him during a match.
Interestingly, Swagger looked annoyed by Antonio Cesaro's proclamation that a "real American," himself, will win the WWE championship at the Elimination Chamber PPV. I don't know. In my opinion, Swagger appeared visibly irked by the comment for a moment. Jealousy? The broadcaster(s) seem to want to hint at this.
I like Cesaro and Swagger as a tandem or as individuals.
In my opinion, I suspect that they'll disband soon. However, I don't see how Cesaro would benefit from a feud with Swagger. Not to mention, the latter would be without a storyline if they do indeed breakup. Ironically, Swagger could use Colter as a manager more than Cesaro. So I don't want for the WWE to separate them.
They did it last week as well with Cesaro shaking his head in disappointment at Swagger losing yet again.
I get tag teams disband, but you gotta have another waiting to take their place or it'll be like a few years ago when the entire division was depleted. I couldn't take going back to just a bunch of mish moshed tag teams. For the first time in a long time I'm enjoying tag team wrestling.
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The Real Americans SHOULD break up though. Antonio is way too good to be in a shitty tag team and he's not a good fit for Swagger anyway. The issue with a lot of these teams breaking up now is that they weren't real teams to begin with. It very rarely feels like there is any kind of chemistry between the two guys on the team. They just come out together and hit all their signature solo moves and then the post match high five. Matches just feel empty for the most part.
Personally, I think Swagger and Cesaro work well together.
It's not a team I want to see split up but, it was inevitable. Hopefully we can get a mutual parting of ways as, we already have a former tag team feuding. It would make much more sense for these two to split than the Prime Time Players. At least these two have a chance, I can't see Titus or Darren doing much of anything after their feud.
They're not ever gonna win the titles and Cesaro is too good to be stuck in the mid card, so they should break up.
And they are going to break up based on the way they've been booked as of late.
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Tag teams that can work
Mason Ryan / wade Barrett
The miz / ziggler
Santino / fandango (goofball & mr serious)
Mark Henry / big show
Mysterio/ sin cara
Let's see.
Real Americans
And Cara/Mysterio, if their match at WM 30 happens.
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The thing is how do you go with it? I mean both Cesaro and Colter are expressing displeasure with Swagger, so you would think it would be Swagger that would turn face, but its obvious that Cesaro is the more cheered for of the two. Not to mention there is no way you can turn that Colter gimmick face.
Have Edge come back and kill off Colter by dropping him off a very high place, Swagger and Cesaro just shrug it off and go about their own, separate ways like it's no big deal.
That's all, folks.
Then have Antonio and Jack accidentally roll him off the high place!
And then next week, forget it ever happened.
I am actually upset at the tag teams breaking up. They need to call up a tag team from NXT that is a legit team. Also make the Matadors drop their gimmick because its restricting. They need to either go heel or have a manager. With the Outlaws around, there are some buzz along with the fresh up and comers Usos. WWE needs to capitalize now. Every division needs atleast 4 strong contenders and right nows its just Outlaws and Usos.
I concur. This is a valid point. Because there aren't that many legitimate male tag teams in the WWE to begin with. And the Bella Twins are advocating for there to be Women's tag team titles. Really? Good luck with that.
Does anybody still believe that the tag team division will be revitalized by Hunter?
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I hope not. Sad to say but neither guy is going to go on to win a big title any time soon, so keep them together. I believe it keeps wwe a lot stronger to have as many tag teams as possible and really make the tag titles mean something. They can't do that if they break up every tag team that comes along.
Ah Screw it
Right. I'd rather they turn the team face(although i dunno how you'd turn Zeb face at this point) and appease the crowd being behind Cesaro than disband a team that has the opportunity to really help the division as a whole. There's talent in that team. Cesaro has plenty of time before he needs to go solo for a major run, and that scene is pretty tied up at the moment anyway.
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