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Vaccination provides many health and economic benefits to individuals and society, and public support for immunization programs is generally high. However, the benefits of vaccines are often not fully valued when public discussions on vaccine safety, quality or efficacy arise, and the spread of misinformation via the internet and other media has the potential to undermine immunization programs. Factors associated with improved public confidence in vaccines include evidence-based decision-making procedures and recommendations, controlled processes for licensing and monitoring vaccine safety and effectiveness and disease surveillance. Community engagement with appropriate communication approaches for each audience is a key factor in building trust in vaccines. Vaccine safety/quality issues should be handled rapidly and transparently by informing and involving those most affected and those concerned with public health in effective ways. Openness and transparency in the exchange of information between industry and other stakeholders is also important. To maximize the safety of vaccines, and thus sustain trust in vaccines, partnerships are needed between public health sector stakeholders. Vaccine confidence can be improved through collaborations that ensure high vaccine uptake rates and that inform the public and other stakeholders of the benefits of vaccines and how vaccine safety is constantly assessed, assured and communicated.
Vaccines have made enormous contributions to public health allowing, for example, for the global eradication of small pox and elimination of poliomyelitis from most countries [
Impact of vaccines in the USA in terms of numbers of reported cases and deaths associated with disease before and after the introduction of vaccination (reprinted and adapted from Bonanni and Santos 2011 [
|Pre-vaccination (estimated annual average)
|Post-vaccination (year)
|0 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|55 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|6,584 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|15,632 (2006)
|27 (2004)
|Poliomyelitis, acute
|0 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|Poliomyelitis, paralytic
|0 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|11 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|Congenital rubella syndrome
|Not available
|1 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|0 (2006)
|0 (2004)
|41 (2006)
|4 (2004)
|Hepatitis A
|3,579 (2006)
|18 (2006)
|Acute hepatitis B
|4,713 (2006)
|47 (2006)
|Invasive Hib
|208 (2006)
|<5 (2005)
|5,169 (2006)
|4,850 (2005)
|48,445 (2006)
|19 (2004)
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Despite these benefits, many children and adults are not vaccinated [
Suboptimal vaccination rates are observed not only in developing countries, but also in industrialized regions [
Other reasons for questioning vaccines are driven by a variety of social and behavioral factors related to complex cultural issues and belief systems [
When a decrease in confidence in vaccines results in reduced coverage, the risk of disease outbreaks rises. For example, suboptimal immunization levels with measles vaccines have led to the re-emergence of measles in Europe [
It is important to acknowledge and act upon vaccine-related concerns as part of the strategy to achieve high vaccine uptake rates [
In a USA survey carried out in 2010, of 376 parents of children aged six years or less, 26% believed that ingredients in vaccines are unsafe and 17% felt that vaccines are not tested enough for safety; only 23% had no concerns about childhood vaccines [
However, knowledge of these safeguards is not sufficient to maintain the long-term success of immunization programs. The development of effective benefit-risk communication messages to build public trust is not straightforward, requiring input from many vaccination stakeholders. In this review, we describe the systems designed to guide and regulate vaccine development and to monitor safety and efficacy. We explore the factors involved in informing the public and others of the benefits and risks of vaccines to sustain trust in immunization programs, as well as the collaboration of different public health sector partners needed to fulfil the various roles outlined in
Transparency in the decision-making processes for vaccine policy matters is crucial to counter the conspiracy allegations made on anti-vaccine websites regarding issues, such as government or institutional decisions about vaccine approval for licensure, public funding and safety assessments after licensing [
Each country has health policies and develops vaccine recommendations that drive national vaccination programs [
Factors that promote (outer green boxes) or undermine (outer orange boxes) vaccine confidence and collaborations (central box) associated with improved public confidence in vaccines.
Providing evidence-based vaccine recommendations and health policies that meet the needs of parents, healthcare providers and society and ensure that those working in primary care are provided with the support required to implement vaccination programs effectively should be part of immunization implementation programs.
Vaccines are biological preparations made in, composed of and/or tested through living systems, with a mode of action that is via the immune system. They are generally administered to large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease and need thorough assessments to ensure that benefits outweigh the risks when used in the target populations [
Selection of a candidate vaccine is usually based on public health need (disease burden), scientific feasibility, suitable technologies and manufacturability. The development process (
Pre- and post-licensure vaccine development activities.
Post-licensure activities are designed to monitor the impact of the vaccine in terms of immunization coverage and effectiveness in protecting against disease and safety surveillance. Manufacturers are usually required to submit risk management plans to the licensing authority that detail a set of pharmacovigilance activities and interventions to identify, characterize, prevent or minimize risks related to the vaccine they intend to market [
The vaccine manufacturing processes that ensure the end product is safe for use are complex, as they require, for instance, sterile manufacturing conditions and involve challenges that differ from those associated with non-biological drug manufacturing [
Currently, extensive scientific and regulatory processes are in place to ensure product quality, safety and efficacy before vaccines are licensed and made available to the public [
Once a vaccine has been approved for marketing, the manufacturer must adhere to quality assurance programs to evaluate various steps of the manufacturing process: from raw materials, through each stage of component preparation to the final formulated, filled and packaged product. Characterization and testing of raw materials are required, and the production procedure must be validated, documented and meet good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements [
A further oversight to industry processes is delivered through facility inspections by regulatory authorities. Manufacturers that fail to meet product standards or do not comply with GMP may be subject to product recalls, license suspension or withdrawal or even, in exceptional circumstances, closure of the production plant [
Safety is monitored throughout the vaccine's lifecycle, starting at the time of preclinical evaluation and continued during clinical development and, following licensure, is monitored indefinitely while in use in immunization programs. The benefit-risk profile of the vaccine is therefore re-assessed constantly. Safety surveillance is the responsibility of not only those who develop or manufacture the products, but also those who are involved in vaccine distribution and administration [
Similar to the vaccine development and manufacturing processes, safety reporting requirements are guided by rules and regulations. For example, the EMA requires public release of vaccine safety information via Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs), which present the vaccine manufacturer's integrated assessment of benefit-risk and exposure and are provided to the EMA for their assessment. From 2013, PSUR-related documents will be published on the EMA website, increasing the transparency of available safety information [
National and supranational vaccine pharmacovigilance programs involve, at the most basic level, passive surveillance of adverse events following immunization (AEFI), in which spontaneous AEFI reports are made to regulatory monitoring organizations, such as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the USA and EudraVigilance in Europe [
Where a safety signal is detected or when a new vaccine is introduced, passive surveillance of AEFI is not sufficient, and an "active" vaccine pharmacovigilance is established that involves prospective case finding and data collection [
Active surveillance is important to evaluate the background incidence of rare conditions and autoimmune disorders to determine whether events that are temporally associated with vaccination are occurring at a higher rate than would be expected based upon the background incidence rate for that event [
Data on the efficacy of the vaccine in preventing disease in immunized populations are obtained from controlled studies. Vaccine effectiveness describes protection under programmatic implementation, reflecting the performance of the vaccine in the actual target population, and is generally monitored as part of post-marketing disease surveillance activities [
An additional active surveillance approach, which is more specific and sensitive and also more resource-demanding, may be implemented and is the tool of choice to monitor and evaluate the impact on a vaccine-preventable disease that is targeted for eradication. An example is the active surveillance of acute flaccid paralysis in children aged under 15 years, as recommended by the WHO, to document progress towards reaching the target of polio eradication [
Information on vaccine uptake is crucial to evaluate the effectiveness of a vaccine or an immunization program. The best quality data are obtained on a real-time and case-based level, but as vaccines are distributed daily and in large numbers, it is highly resource-demanding to obtain data of this quality in all settings. Hence, vaccination coverage assessment may differ from one country to another in terms of the information system used, timeliness of reporting and data analysis methodology [
To achieve high uptake, there must be broad acceptance of the medical need and safety of immunization, as well as the availability of acceptable health systems that support vaccine delivery. However, the process of developing benefit-risk communication messages to instill public trust is complicated, requiring different types of research at a local community level for each new vaccine introduced. In particular, advocacy and communication strategies must be tailored to the population concerned, as has been demonstrated with the introduction of vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV). Before licensing, information-gathering exercises showed the importance of raising awareness of HPV as a cause of cervical cancer before introducing an immunization program, the success of which was dependent on targeting primarily young adolescent girls before HPV exposure [
For vaccine programs to be successful, it is important to present facts about disease burden and vaccine prevention in an accurate, appropriate and easy to understand way, including clear explanation of the risks of disease
An example vaccine information statement (VIS) for the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine (adapted from VIS produced by the CDC [
|MMR disease and complications
|MMR vaccine and complications
Ear infection (7 persons out of 100) *
Pneumonia (6 persons out of 100) *
Seizures (jerking and staring) (6 to 7 persons out of 1,000) *
Death (2 persons out of 1,000) *
|Children should receive 2 doses of MMR vaccine.
Fever (up to 1 person out of 6)
Mild rash (about 1 person out of 20)
Swelling of glands in the cheeks or neck (about 1 person out of 75)
Seizure (jerking or staring) caused by fever (about 1 out of 3,000 doses)
Temporary pain and stiffness in the joints, mostly in teenage or adult women (up to 1 out of 4)
Temporary low platelet count, which can cause a bleeding disorder (about 1 out of 30,000 doses)
Serious allergic reaction (less than 1 out of a million doses)
Several other severe problems have been reported after a child gets MMR vaccine, including deafness, long-term seizures, coma or lowered consciousness, permanent brain damage
These are so rare that it is hard to tell whether they are caused by the vaccine
Deafness (1 person out of 20,000) *
Meningitis (infection of the brain and spinal cord covering) (15 persons out of 100) *
Painful swelling of the testicles or ovaries (adults: 1 person out of 2 or 3); rarely sterility
Encephalitis (1 person out of 6,000) **
Hemorrhagic manifestations (1 person out of 3,000) **
If a woman gets rubella while she is pregnant, she could have a miscarriage or her baby could be born with serious birth defects
* Rates reported for measles and mumps complications are from CDC Pink Book; ** complications for rubella are not presented in the VIS and have been sourced from the CDC Pink Book.
Therefore, the confidence of healthcare providers in vaccines should be reinforced by better and deeper scientific and public health training on vaccines during their medical studies and through postgraduate education. The WHO has identified several areas that need to be addressed to ensure healthcare providers are well prepared for immunization sessions [
Although vaccine safety crises are uncommon, they have the potential to disrupt immunization activities and, thereby, affect public health. It is, therefore, important to ensure that vaccine safety communication plans are in place at an early stage, as recommended in the Global Vaccine Safety Initiative developed by the WHO and a group of partners [
A number of false vaccine concerns have been reported that have fuelled the effectiveness of anti-vaccine advocates. One of the most notable vaccination controversies was related to the presumed link between measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination and autism in children, which was initiated by an article in
Vaccine beliefs should be based on accurate, factual information regarding both the benefits and risks associated with vaccines [
According to a survey of over 1,200 parents in the USA, vaccine manufacturers were considered a good or excellent source of information by only 29% of those who did not use the Internet as a source of vaccine information and by 23% of those who did use the Internet [
Openness and honesty attained with bi-directional communication with healthcare providers and the general population is one of the factors that determines trust in industry [
There have been calls to go further and for relevant anonymized patient-level data to be made available upon request for all clinical trials of drugs and devices; since January 2013, the British Medical Journal requires this commitment before publication can be considered [
Openness and transparency in the exchange of information between the vaccine industry and other stakeholders in vaccine implementation should help to re-build trust and, hence, maintain confidence in immunization programs. Also, increased access to data by outside experts will allow independent trial analysis, offering the potential for different perspectives on the results, which could lead to improvements in trial design or aspects of the immunization program or even the development of novel medicines [
In this Decade of Vaccines, the expansion of immunization programs is necessary to meet the goals of healthcare organizations worldwide and to improve health at a country level. In a world of networks, the vaccination debate has moved from the classical top-down model of information provision to one of social media debate, where each contributor is seen as an equal player. However, websites often present suboptimal and inaccurate information, and as a result, public concerns surrounding vaccinations (most frequently, vaccine safety) have the potential to spread rapidly. Misconceptions and misunderstandings surrounding vaccines have been fuelled by the difficulty of many stakeholders in communicating and informing others in effective ways, be it parents, vaccine recipients or healthcare providers.
No medical intervention, including vaccines, is completely safe and without adverse events. The most common AEFIs are time-limited and mild and continuous benefit-risk evaluations are performed by regulatory authorities, using the vaccine safety evaluation and monitoring systems that are in place to identify safety concerns. Serious adverse events and associated risks are assessed and compared to the benefits of vaccination. Even so, reassurances on vaccine safety and of the necessity for vaccination via evidence-based recommendations and policies, as well as stringent safety and disease surveillance procedures, are not sufficient to counter all negative beliefs surrounding vaccines. Further social and behavior science research is needed to determine how to address beliefs appropriately via effective benefit-risk communication messages. Reactions to issues related to vaccine production, safety or implementation programs must be handled with speed and must also be fair, balanced and accurate in the assessment and in all communications. In particular, unexpected and/or serious AEFIs require rapid and comprehensive investigation to provide effective and transparent information regarding causality and management. This necessitates ongoing education and a commitment to communication and dialogue among all involved stakeholders.
Importantly, in view of their central role in maintaining public trust in vaccines, healthcare providers need to feel confident in providing advice and need to be updated in a timely manner when scares arise. This might require an increased amount of time spent on the topic of immunization in medical and nursing schools and an increased focus on continued medical education in this area. Better tailored communication materials shared through appropriate channels would further support community engagement.
Health authorities need to play an important role in implementing vaccine communication plans and in the wider field of transparency and accountability in vaccine decision-making. Confidence in industry requires a commitment to bring the same high quality and efficacious vaccines to all countries and a major role in the transparent infrastructure for developing, manufacturing and monitoring the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. The vaccines industry must ensure that accurate and reliable information is provided on its products in order to address vaccine hesitancy associated with social and behavioral issues. The industry should also have strategies for providing accurate and reliable information on the benefit-risk profile of vaccines, which are appropriate for each audience concerned and supported by evidence-based and transparent recommendations. This would help other stakeholders to view the pharmaceutical industry as an integral partner in public health issues. Moreover, interactions among vaccination stakeholders should be guided by the highest standards and codes of conduct in order to address any concerns surrounding the impartiality of vaccine manufacturers in terms of benefit-risk communication.
This review provides a broad overview of the systems that contribute to building confidence in vaccines and is therefore limited in terms of detail on specific topics. It is clear, however, that to sustain trust in vaccines, partnerships between all stakeholders in the public health sector, such as health authorities, policy makers, national and supranational organizations, healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers and others, are needed to ensure high vaccine uptake rates, identify and allow the introduction of new vaccines and inform the public and others of the benefits of vaccines and how vaccine safety is constantly assessed, assured and communicated. The development of effective benefit-risk communication messages to instill public trust in vaccines is complex, but can be achieved with collaborative and transparent approaches, thereby encouraging the success of immunization programs.
Writing support services were provided by Joanne Knowles (freelance, UK); editing and publication co-ordination services were provided by Véronique Delpire and Mandy Payne (Words and Science, Brussels, Belgium). The authors thank Jane Wynen, Alberta Di Pasquale and Vincent Bauchau (GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium) for critically reviewing the manuscript. All costs related to the development of this manuscript were met by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA.
All authors are employed by GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. K.H. declares ownership of GlaxoSmithKline stock options and R.S.O., R.A.A. and F.P.M. declare ownership of GlaxoSmithKline shares and stock options.
Rotarix is a trademark of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. RotaShield is a trademark of Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines, and RotaTeq is a trademark of Merck and Co., Inc.


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Revolution Under Construction: Tunisia, the World Social Forum & Feminist Internationalism | Maria Poblet
Reflections on the World Social Forum. Tunis, Spring 2013.
Tunisia is a society under construction. After a successful revolution in 2011 that sparked the "Arab Spring", the country, and the entire region, are in the midst of profound social transformation. I went to Tunisia thrilled to learn from the social movements that overthrew a profoundly entrenched, decades-long dictatorship. The World Social Forum (WSF), held in Tunis in late March, occurred in the wake of this groundbreaking change. The Forum brought together 50,000 people from social movements on all over the world to share and learn from each other and from the advances of the "Arab Spring."
Alma Blackwell, lead member of Causa Justa :: Just Cause, and I were both part of a majority-women of color delegation of Left community-based organizations from the United States, organized by the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ). In our community organizing work at Causa Justa :: Just Cause in California, we emphasize bringing our work to scale, and building a movement strong enough to have national impact. Just last month, we helped launch Right to the City's national "Homes for All" campaign and brought together homeowners in foreclosure with public housing residents, homeless people with renters, all with the goal of building a movement large enough to win the change we need.
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Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Mass Incarceration: An Interview on Contemporary Social Movements with David Gilbert
This interview originally appeared in Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 5:2, 259-270. For a PDF of the interview, go here. It is reprinted here with permission.
In the 1960s and 1970s, many activists looked to the prisons for political leadership, while viewing prisons themselves as institutions of repression and social control integral to larger systems of oppression. Around the world, the prisoner emerged as an icon of state repression and a beacon of liberation. If the prison served as the bricks and mortar of oppression, the prisoner became the flesh and blood of movement iconography. Black American prisoners held special sway within this global visibility of confinement, in part because so many prisoners became prolific authors connected to wider social movements of the time. In prison, black activists from Martin Luther King, Jr to George Jackson and Assata Shakur penned tracts that offered trenchant insights into race, class, and American power. Black activists proved the most incisive, the most creative, inheritors of a deep and multiracial tradition of political critique behind bars. These imprisoned author-activists articulate a profound paradox: one of the best places to understand the "land of the free" is the place where freedom was most elusive. It was both a sobering and inspiring message for a generation on the move.
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Marxism, The 21st Century and Social Transformation (Part 2) | Bill
This is the second section of a three-part piece by Bill Fletcher, Jr, reposted from Philosophers for Change. The last post, available here, addressed the current political context and efforts at socialist renewal. This post addresses: "The Arab democratic uprising and the rise of mass Left radicalism" and "The question of who makes history"
The Arab democratic uprising and the rise of mass Left radicalism
The reshaping of the global Left, and quite possibly global politics, may have been found in the Arab democratic uprising (what some call the "Arab Spring" or Arab Democratic Revolution) that kicked off with the December 2010 rising in Tunisia. Though none of these uprisings can be described as "Left", at least in traditional terms, and though in some places the Left played a role in the uprisings, e.g., Tunisia, the scale and scope of the uprisings has been so significant so as to send shockwaves around the planet that go beyond the Left. In effect these uprisings were anti-neo-colonial and objectively anti-neo-liberal. They were mass and were not religiously inspired (though drew upon various faiths for inspiration).[iii] And, contrary to many prior risings in the Arab World, they were not coups but rather were mass interventions that in many cases brought normal life to a halt.
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To Kick the Wars Out, There's Work Ahead
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Month in Review #85 • May 31, 2012
By Greg Hom
Taking inspiration from the IVAW activists who led the big anti-NATO protests in Chicago, Greg Hom assesses the continuing challenges facing antiwar activists regarding Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Syria and Mali.
Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans, hand-in-hand with Afghans for Peace, made history this month when they led a march of thousands against NATO and returned their Global War on Terror medals to NATO's generals. Just the boost needed for the hard work ahead in the face of challenging developments from the Middle East/West Asia to too-often-ignored Africa. Adding a complicating twist, this is an election year in the U.S. It's a lot, but it's a crazy and big world.
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The problem with peace awards is that they are capable of engendering war, of the verbal kind at least. And so it has come to pass with the awarding of the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize to Palestinian activist Hanan Ashrawi.
Ostensibly this is a Sydney gig, being sponsored by Sydney University and supported by the City of Sydney. However, due to Ashrawi's high profile, it has become a national and, to some extent, an international issue.
Alexander Downer was quizzed about this when interviewed on ABC TV's Insiders last Sunday. The Foreign Minister commented that, "over the last year", Ashrawi "wouldn't be one of the three or four people" he would "identify as having made a major contribution to the peace process in the Middle East".
Downer added that "if you wanted to choose a Palestinian, you'd choose someone like Abu Mazen who made an enormous effort to try and bring about the 'road map' and implement peace". Abu Mazen recently stepped down as Palestinian Authority prime minister after a fall-out with Yasser Arafat.
Stuart Rees, director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, was also interviewed on Insiders. He told Barrie Cassidy that what was at stake in the debate about the prize turned on "what we are allowed to discuss in this country without fear or favour".
Rees asserted that "controversial issues like the Israeli-Palestinian relationships, or even the issues about the . . . men held in Guantanamo Bay, seem to be off the agenda". He claimed that "there's too much fear to speak a word" concerning such matters and praised the "courage" of Green senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle for confronting George Bush in Canberra on Thursday.
In any analysis, this is a significant exaggeration. There is plenty of discussion in Australia about the Middle East. Ditto the situation of the two Australians held by the US at Camp Delta - on account of the alleged fact that they trained with the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
But there is genuine disagreement about whether, in the light of the present situation in the Middle East, Ashrawi is a suitable recipient of a peace prize. And many Australians do not believe that the tactics engaged in by the Green senators, in attempting to shout down President Bush in the Australian Parliament, was appropriate behaviour.
Like all participants in the public debate, Professor Rees has his own agenda. He criticised the US-led war against terrorism in Afghanistan, since "each day of conflict is one less opportunity for dialogue between the two sides" (The Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2001). And he opposed the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq - claiming that the real issue in the conflict turned on whether the world was to be governed from Texas and "whether people would be obedient to the will of the White House or fear retribution if they failed to be obedient" (The Sydney Morning Herald, March 14, 2003). Rees's book Passion for Peace (UNSW Press) will be launched by actor - and leftist activist - Judy Davis tonight.
In the present debate, Rees and his supporters have become surprisingly shrill - for peace advocates, at least. Witness his note of a phone conversation, which he supplied to The Sydney Morning Herald and which was published last Saturday.
Here Rees asserted that Sydney Lord Mayor Lucy Turnbull had distanced herself from the 2003 prize because, for her to take any other action, was "more than her husband's political life is worth".
This was a reference to Malcolm Turnbull's attempt to win Liberal Party preselection in the federal electorate of Wentworth. A surprisingly misogynous comment circa 2003.
Australians, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, should be entitled to query the credentials of the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize winner. Ashrawi is perfectly free to visit Australia and engage in public debate (she has a standing invitation to address The Sydney Institute). It's just that opponents of Ashrawi are free to state their case in advance of the award presentation. Provided that, unlike Brown and Nettle, they do not attempt to shout down their political adversary.
I met Ashrawi in July 1999 when we shared a platform at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas, where she put on a fine performance. In a private conversation she told me that she had always opposed the "armed struggle" in the Middle East. The impression was given that, in her view, terrorism was counter-productive. This leads Ashrawi's critics to claim that her opposition to terrorism is only tactical.
Ashrawi's case is spelt out in her memoir This Side of Peace (Simon & Schuster, 1995). She does not much like the biography written about her by Barbara Victor titled A Voice of Reason (Harcourt Brace, 1995).
As a polemicist of long standing, Ashrawi has spoken widely on a range of issues. Clearly, and properly, she is likely to play a significant role in any agreement that might result from the troubled, "road map" for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
In the meantime, Ashrawi is no committed peace activist. Unlike some Palestinians, she has not worked consistently with the Israeli peace movement. And she supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Moreover, Ashrawi's address to the (somewhat misnamed) World Conference Against Racism in Durban on August 28, 2001, was replete with the most virulent verbal attacks on Israel. Yet it contained not one skerrick of self-criticism from the Palestinian side. In short, this was not the address of a contemporary peacemaker.
The fact is that many individuals who live to accept peace prizes were one-time combatants - or barrackers for combatants. In view of this, it would make sense for the powers-that-be to junk the Sydney Peace Prize before it causes more verbal conflict.
Gerard Henderson is executive director of The Sydney Institute.
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The remaining two defendants who only pled to a misdemeanor will serve up to 90 days in jail.
Freundel was charged with six counts of voyeurism, a misdemeanor, and has surrendered his passport while awaiting trial.
Uber severed ties with him, and on Monday he was charged with misdemeanor vehicular homicide.
But, for bigger charges, like a misdemeanor or felony, you can be busted after-the-fact just for tweeting a picture.
Norma, on the other hand, was charged only with a misdemeanor, which carries a maximum sentence of nine months in jail.
Benedict Arnold condemned to be reprimanded by the commander-in-chief, for misdemeanor at Philadelphia.
He certainly was not there for misdemeanor; for he was a "good boy," at least in his own estimation.
They were indeed banished out of Italy by an edict; but it was for a misdemeanor committed by some villains of that nation.
His office was strictly elective, and he could be deposed for misdemeanor.
But this was only a case of misdemeanor, in which he could ask for nothing beyond fine and imprisonment.
A minor crime, punishable by a fine or a light jail term. Common misdemeanors, such as traffic violations, are usually dealt with informally, without a trial. (Compare felony.)


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September 12, 2012
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations has scheduled a hearing on Wednesday, September 12, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The title of the hearing is "DOE's Nuclear Weapons Complex: Challenges to Safety, Security, and Taxpayer Stewardship."
Note: The hearing was originally scheduled for July 20, 2012.
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Gregory H. Friedman
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Our research team is an informal group of varying size and membership within the Canadian Museum of Civilization Volunteers, 100 Laurier, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. We come from all walks of life: undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students in various academic programs, retirees, and those employed elsewhere. Our common goal is to make available to our viewers our current research in gendered spatial analysis for comment and educational purposes. Our project leader is Dr. Bryan Gordon, former Arctic Archaeologist and now a Curator Emeritus (Research) with the Museum. Our webmaster is Spencer Sutton.
Our Approach:
Our software designer, Raymond Cheng, has developed the analytical tool DSA (Dynamic Spatial Analysis), enabling us to query large databases of artifacts, and to output each query result as a scatterplot. By refining our search criteria, we can produce the distribution of any or all artifacts in each of many levels in nine stratified archaeological sites in the Beverly caribou range of the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan. Four sites,KjNb-6,7, 9 and 13, are in close proximity to the largest water-crossing, used each July by the Beverly herd.KeNi-4, at the Thelon headwater's Whitefish Lake, is the largest site, and was used from late spring to early winter by resident hunters, plus the nearby small but related KeNi-5. Joining the inhabitants of KeNi-4 and 5 in August are those hunters returning from the Thelon water-crossings and a basalt artifact trading group from KkLn-4 on Grant Lake and KdLw-1 on Mosquito Lake on the lower and middle Dubawnt River. We can set our search criteria for in-site and between-site comparison for any common cultural level so that we can compare seasonal activities of one or more particular groups. Using interlevel comparison we can compare seasonal activities over time in one or all sites. In conjunction with these 8 sites are 994 surface sites, some with plotted artifacts. Altogether, we can plot trade items moving through the Thelon and Dubawnt Basins in the form of copper, chert,basalt, silicious shale and exotic coloured quartzites such as red quartzite. Copper was likely carried all the way from the northwest from near the Coppermine Delta, while the source of the special Pre-Dorset chert is still undetermined, but probably also came from the northwest.
One of our major achievements has been deciphering palimpsests, the bane of archaeologists. A palimpsest is a scattering of artifacts from different times on the ground surface or a buried level. As its formation varies from minutes to centuries, we separate it into activity areas relating to the various stages of caribou harvesting and processing. We are very fortunate that the ancient hunters had many types and materials of artifacts of a vast range of colours to separate stone knapping activities. Ethnographic analogy allows to us to assess the gender of the people in specific activities. Generally, men knapped the tools, hunted, and worked with wood and bone, while women stripped and dried meat, removed and stored marrow and sewed. Both sexes shared the butchering of carcasses.
Ethnographic analogy allows to us to assess the gender of the people in specific activities. Generally, men knapped the tools, hunted, and worked with wood and bone, while women stripped and dried meat, removed and stored marrow and sewed. Both sexes shared the butchering of carcasses.
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We reconstruct the tasks done by ancient men and women by examining the distribution of the tools they dropped. As each task needs specific tools that are often gender-related, we examine their arrangement so we can place scaled bird's eye views of male and female icons on each living floor. We orient these icons on the basis of tool scatter, handedness (left 20% or right 80%), wind direction where hearths are involved, and sequence if a task requires a series of steps. Comparing tool arrangements with those in floors used in different seasons, or those used by other cultures centuries apart, allows us to see if gendered tasks varied over time. Hunter-gatherer tasks typically do not involve differences in power and authority, so we look for tasks that you or I would do, given their circumstances. By counting the number of icons for each task for each floor, we can estimate their intensity by season and culture. Using this information we gain some idea of family size. Did boys assist their fathers or uncles in the hunt? Did girls help their mothers or aunts in preparing food or skins? Can we envision an assembly line operation? When did both genders work side by side?
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We wish to discover how ancient Barrenland hunters lived. Their descendants still hunt the peripheries of the Beverly caribou range, so it is informative that we compare their behavior with that of their ancestors. By having over a thousand sites for study, plus the main database of the remaining Northwest Territories sites at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, we can also compare long distance trade. For example, one of our sites, KeNi-4 at treeline, has most copper objects. Using our surface and stratified sites, plus the Museum's sites, we can plot trade routes from the Coppermine to our area. For project development, we try to place ourselves in the role of the hunter (the provider) or his wife (the processor). Examining gender-specific artifacts from Inuit and Indian ethnology, and knowing the limitations and opportunities imposed on us in our role, we write reports to give everyone insights into the logical choices made by ancient people.


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The merger (which would create the world's largest airline) needs the approval of the U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Transportation. The companies are aiming to have the merger completed by September.
The sticking point is about whether or not the combined company will agree to sell slots (take off and landing rights) at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C. If the merger is approved, the new company would have control of 68% of the slots at Reagan National, reports Reuters.
In May more than 100 Congressmen asked U.S. regulators to allow the new airline to keep the slots. The airport is used by many congressmen in their flights to and from the capital, reports Reuters.


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The kids' cough-cold space has become a significant category for homeopathic manufacturers. With the safety and efficacy of cough-cold medicines called into question several years ago, the category now is stocked with homeopathic remedies and reformulated/repackaged allopathic medicines.
Safe and effective. Those are the selling points that homeopathy has been emphasizing with mass consumers, and it's working. Sales of homeopathic products as measured by SPINSscan across food, drug and mass (excluding Walmart) were up 16%, reaching a sales base of $126.1 million.
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Executive order establishes new Pathways Programs
The Obama administration will start new programs to establish clear paths for the recruitment and hiring of students and recent graduates for entry-level federal jobs. The administration will also end the controversial Federal Career Intern Program, which has long been criticized by labor unions as unfair.
White House officials detailed the new programs and the administration's decision to end the intern program in an executive order released Dec. 27. The Office of Personnel Management will issue regulations to implement the governmentwide programs and will oversee recruitment efforts.
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The Pathways Programs consist of three programs: the Internship Program, the Recent Graduates Program and a modified version of the Presidential Management Fellows Program.
The executive order says new programs are necessary to strengthen the government's recruitment of qualified applicants for entry-level positions.
"To compete effectively for students and recent graduates, the federal government must improve its recruiting efforts; offer clear paths to federal internships for students from high school through post-graduate school; offer clear paths to civil service careers for recent graduates; and provide meaningful training, mentoring and career-development opportunities," the order stated.
Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, said in a statement that the government "took a significant step in opening the door to a new generation of public servants. For too long, government has underutilized its internship programs and left highly qualified, proven talent on the table."
Those eligible for the Recent Graduates program must have gotten a qualifying degree or completed a career or technical education program in the preceding two years. Military veterans will be able to join the program within six years of earning a degree, according to the executive order.
OPM will provide oversight of federal agencies' use of the Pathways Programs to ensure "that they serve as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the competitive hiring process," the order states.
As part of the executive order, the White House also scrapped FCIP, the government's two-year development internship program, which began in 2001.
The National Treasury Employees Union has been fighting to eliminate FCIP, arguing that a number of agencies have abused the program by using it for all new hires.
"I applaud the White House for recognizing that agency misuse of the FCIP far beyond its original intent undercuts a basic pillar of the civil service — fair and open competition for positions — and that it must be ended in its current form," NTEU President Colleen Kelley said in a statement.
In November, the Merit Systems Protection Board also found that FCIP violated a statute relating to veterans' preferences.
Interns appointed under FCIP will be converted to competitive service, without loss of pay or benefits, starting March 1, according to the executive order.
NTEU is taking a cautious approach to the new programs. The union said outside of limited internships, it supports competitive hiring in the civil service.
"In a similarity with the FCIP, this new program would be an exception to competitive service, and, as such, it should be very narrowly drawn," Kelley said.
The executive order directs OPM to establish, "if appropriate," a governmentwide cap on the number of non-competitive conversions to the competitive service of Interns, Recent Graduates or Presidential Management Fellows, or a governmentwide cap applicable to all three categories together.
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Administration of human resources requires supporting a constant flow of personnel through the system. People who are in a job title do not have the "big picture" because they are limited to their own job. With three million employees there is always someplace that needs more people. Even if there are RIFs the position has to be covered by someone or completely eliminated from the budget line. It ain't easy being green!
If you want to slap government workers with a pay freeze, and still hire young people who are saddled with massive student debt, how about paying off their student loans? The current student loan program is a joke: no one I know has ever gotten any money from it, and the 10 year debt forgiveness only kicks in after you've already paid off your debt. Young people struggle to get established, and choking them with student loan payments just sets them back for life. They worked hard to get the skills the government needs, so help them out by unburdening their student debts.
Hey, come work for us... Oh, BTW, by law we can't give you a raise for a few years.
Interesting that the Federal Gov't is now implementing improved programs to hire "highly qualified" new grads while at the same freezing pay for 2 years. Those two initiatives run counter to each other--isn't anyone in gov't talking and coordinating efforts to improve gov't and gov't services?
If the Federal Government really wants to be able to compete effectively for top quality graduates, maybe they should rethink how they treat current employees. Right now College graduates see Federal Employees scapegoated by the politicians as lazy, underworked and overpaid mindless bureaucrats. We get our pay frozen allegedly to help with the budget crisis, only to see Obama and the Lame Duck Congress spend many multiples of what they took from us on new programs in just a few short weeks. The incoming Congress talks a lot about messing with our pension plans to make them "fair", giving no thought to just how fair it is to yank someone's pension out from underneath them after they've already worked over 32 years towards earning that pension. The pension is not a gift, it is payment for services rendered. To cut the pensions of those of us who have worked long and hard under the current rules would amount to a retroactive pay cut. At any rate, a new College graduate hears about all this jacking around of the current workforce and you've pretty much convinced them to avoid Federal Service like the plague.
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Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant likes the Lakers lineup. He loves the Thunder's chances.
With the Lakers picking up center Dwight Howard and point guard Steve Nash to go with Metta World Peace, Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol, it is hard not to be impressed with the their lineup.
"People outside, fans, media, of course they are going to say (the Lakers are the favorites) because on paper they have the best lineup in the league," Durant told Marc J. Spears of Yahoo. "But you still got to play the games. We respect everybody. We are going to go through the league respecting everybody as well. We already view ourselves as an elite team, but we have to prove it again. Last year is over with."
The elite team knocked off the Lakers in the playoffs last season on their way to the NBA Finals. So Durant said he and the Thunder will be ready for the team in L.A.
"We all like that challenge in OKC," he said. " It should be fun."
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'NAIVE' proposals for an HS2 station in Bucks have been withdrawn from a mitigation blueprint put forward by council chiefs.
A first draft of the blueprint - setting out what councillors are demanding to mitigate the worst aspects of the project if it goes ahead - at one stage included plans for a station near Aylesbury.
The blueprint was handed in to the government this week - but Chiltern District Council heard at the authority's full council meeting on Wednesday it does not include the station proposals, which have now been dropped.
Cllr Seb Berry said: "It was a naive and politically quite damaging proposal. How on earth did it emerge in the first place and ended as being talked up by the county council?"
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By Samantha Bomkamp, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK JetBlue Airways Corp. is auctioning off more than 300 roundtrip flights and six vacation packages this week on eBay, with opening bids set between 5 and 10 cents.
The flights are to more than 20 destinations, including four "mystery" JetBlue Getaways Vacation packages to undisclosed locations.
The three-, five- and seven-day auctions include one- and two-person roundtrip, weekend flights in September from cities including Boston, Chicago, New York, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Fort Lauderdale and Southern California.
Harlan Platt, a finance professor at Northeastern University who follows the airline industry, thinks the auctions will provide some valuable "word-of-mouth" advertising for the discount carrier.
"I think it's a great idea. In this day and age, people are inundated with ads as they are sitting on airplanes, or at airports," he said. "A subtle advertisement such as this could be very effective."
Platt said the auctions will likely produce final bids between 85 percent and 90 percent of the flight or package's total value.
"It's all about the cost of getting someone to notice you," he said. "And this (method) provides a lot of bang for the buck."
Each auction will have a specific range of dates in which customers can travel. The travel dates, times and flight numbers will be posted when the customers bid.
The vacation packages include airfare and a four-night hotel stay for two at Marriott hotels in locations including Las Vegas and Nassau, Bahamas. The four mystery packages include two locations where passports are needed and two that don't require passports.
Taxes and fees are additional and will vary according to the particular route, but they will be disclosed in each listing, according to JetBlue spokeswoman Alison Eshelman. Bidders will need to have a PayPal account.
Flights leave on Thursdays or Fridays and return on Sundays or Mondays. All travel must be completed by October 6.
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High school wrestlers face extra challenges during holidays
High school wrestlers face many challenges during the season, but holiday temptation can make life especially difficult.
"As a varsity wrestler, you don't get the luxuries that other kids have during the holiday season," Southmoreland coach Ryan Shaw said. "These kids have to sacrifice."
In a sport in which an athlete's weight is so important, wrestlers must guard against pitfalls such as over-indulgence on holiday food and drinks.
"It takes a lot of self-discipline on the wrestlers' part," Mt. Pleasant coach Mike Long said. "They have to be disciplined in order to manage their weight.
That means eating the proper food and nutrition."
According to Long, it's important for coaches to emphasize discipline and sacrifice during this time of year.
But ultimately, the responsibility falls on the wrestlers.
"The big thing is trust," Long said. "The kids I have, have been wrestling their whole lives, so I know they are disciplined and can manage their weight. They don't want to disappoint their teammates or their coaches, and they know where they have to be weight-wise."
The PIAA gives a 2-pound weight allowance on Christmas, but that is not a license for wrestlers to pack on weight freely during the holiday season.
"It's a double-edged sword," Shaw said, noting that it gives wrestlers an opportunity to enjoy holiday foods without penalty. But it can also be used as a reason to overindulge, which could lead to problems making weight in future matches. The two-pound allowance also allows wrestlers flexibility to move into weight classes in which they would not normally compete. This becomes an issue during holiday tournaments.
Teams such as Connellsville often try to compete in some of the biggest tournaments in the country during the holidays. The Falcons are regulars in the Beast of the East Tournament the weekend before Christmas and the Powerade Tournament the weekend after Christmas. Southmoreland and Mt. Pleasant compete in the Southmoreland Holiday Tournament, which also brings in top-notch athletes.
"Christmas and New Year's are always a tough time, but it's a balancing act," Connellsville coach Tommy Dolde said.
Dolde also noted the sacrifices wrestlers make during the holidays, not only in terms of their diet, but also in terms of time spent with family and friends.
"The biggest thing is sacrifice," Dolde said. "They sacrifice that big holiday meal. They get up Christmas morning, spend time with their families, but then go on a run while everyone else is at home. They sacrifice pop and desserts, and that's what they have to do during Christmas time."
Of course, the coaches realize that the holidays are meant for enjoyment, so expecting a young athlete to forgo fun things associated with this time of year is not completely realistic.
"We tell them that moderation is key," Dolde said. "Balance everything you eat with an exercise plan."
Time spent away from home also is something teams try to deal with around the holidays.
"Do we try to find ways to get them out of the gym early to be with their families? Absolutely," Shaw said, noting that practice sessions are often set up at a quicker pace so less time is spent working out and more time can be spent with loved ones.
"When it comes to the holidays, we try to get them out fast," Dolde said. "We do power hours (a one-hour workout) because it's the holidays, and family comes first."
Of course, the wrestlers know the importance of maintaining their focus during this time of year. And for most, it's a challenge they are more than willing to accept.
"You just have to work harder to make weight," Mt. Pleasant wrestler Ethan Charlesworth said. "It's hard, but I've gotten used to it."
Southmoreland wrestler Sean Suter noted that the holidays are a time to be extra vigilant, not a time to slack off.
"It's pretty hard to not eat too much," Suter said. "But you just have to work it off in the room. We just work hard through the holidays and just keep at it."
Connellsville wrestler Gunnar Lynch competed at heavyweight last season, but he dropped 45 pounds and is competing at 220 this season. He knows what it takes to be disciplined in terms of dropping and maintaining weight. He also knows it's important to have a plan through the holiday season.
"When we go in to work out, we know what we have to do," Lynch said. "Christmas time can be tough. It's good to spend time with family, but we make sure we get our work done. When it's done, then we have time to relax."
One of the things coaches admire about their wrestlers is their commitment to the sport, especially during the holiday season.
"These kids are very dedicated," Dolde said. "They realize that if they want to win, they have to get the workouts in."
That's true, even during the holiday season.
Jason Black is the local sports editor of the Daily Courier. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It's about time the U.S. Senate or the mainstream media vetted those publicly attacking Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as thoroughly as the Judge himself. After all, if the Senate Judiciary Committee or a gaggle of reporters parsed every word written and each comment uttered by the liberal opposition, the news would be a whole lot different.
Take University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, for example. On the day of the nomination, Newsweek published an interview with Sunstein in which he asserted that Alito "is a very conservative judge." The professor went on to elaborate that, in 15 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Alito had authored "more than three dozen dissenting opinions and the overwhelming majority of them are more conservative than the court itself." And, to emphasize his point, Sunstein claimed "[t]his is particularly noteworthy because the court [Alito] is on is already very conservative."
Sounds believable, right? Well, yes, if only Sunstein had stuck to his story when he wrote for the Washington Post the very next day.
Instead, when Sunstein's op-ed column appeared the following morning, his assessment had changed dramatically. On the pages of the Post, the professor wrote that "Alito does not place political ideology in the forefront" and that "[n]one of [his] opinions is reckless or irresponsible or even especially far-reaching." And, discussing those same dissents, Sunstein now claimed they "are lawyerly rather than bombastic," and warned "not to misread" too much into them since Alito "sits on a relatively liberal court, and hence his dissents are sometimes from relatively liberal rulings."
So which is it, Professor Sunstein? Is Alito "very predictably conservative" judge, as you told Newsweek? Or is he a "modest" jurist who "does not place ideology in the forefront," as you wrote in the Post? For that matter, is the Third Circuit "very conservative," as you said in your Newsweek interview? Or is it "relatively liberal," as you claimed in your Post column?
As it turned out, those were only the most obvious problems with Sunstein's supposedly expert analysis of Alito's judicial inclinations. Inconsistencies in Sunstein's presentation of his "research" prompted legal blogger, fellow law professor and radio sparring partner Ann Althouse to ask Sunstein off-the-air for more details about his findings and conclusions. Specifically, Althouse wondered just how many Alito dissents Sunstein had categorized as "more conservative" than the decision reached by the other two judges on the panel.
This, after all, was the crucial question since Sunstein claimed "the overwhelming majority" of Alito's dissents were "more conservative than the court." What's more, Althouse already had her doubts, since Sunstein had referred twice to only "two dozen" conservative dissents during the radio program on which they had both been interviewed. Doing the math on her blog, Althouse commented: "There were 41 cases. ... 24 as compared to 17 is a 'remarkable pattern'? Fifty-eight percent of the time is 'almost uniformly'? I don't get it!"
It turns out, Althouse was absolutely right not to "get it" because the "overwhelming majority" of Alito conservative dissents claimed by Sunstein amounted to nothing more than his "best estimate" that just over half of Alito's dissents "are to the right" politically speaking.
As Sunstein explained in his e-mail reply: "In terms of counting: I looked over 41 dissents ... Some of them are easy to code in ideological terms; some of them aren't. Somewhere between 13 and 20 are best treated as 'neutral,' that is, no[t] ideological ... at all." What's more, Sunstein added that he wasn't even sure that all the remaining Alito dissents could be categorized as "conservative." Instead, it was simply his "best estimate" that the "overwhelming majority" of the rest "are to the majority's right" And, if that were not enough, Sunstein added Althouse should keep in mind that "[r]easonable people can differ, of course."
Sunstein concluded his explanation with the real kicker. Feigning mere academic curiosity, Sunstein claimed, "I wasn't looking (or hoping) for this pattern. It really surprised me. I really want to be in favor of [Judge] Alito and haven't made up my mind." That's right, the author of a new book entitled Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America isn't choosing sides when it comes to the ideological direction of the highest court in the land. Or, just maybe, reasonable people can differ about that, too.
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Not sure how many forum Readers, Lurkers or otherwise are in Eastern WA or more specifically in the Tri-Cities WA area, But ACE Hardware in Richland has PMC X-Tac, 20 rnds. per box, 5.56 in stock. Limit is 5 "per customer". There was 20 or so boxes left when I took my 5 from the pile. $12.95 a box :confused:. Still a bit high, but it beats the crap out of $30-35 a box :mad: for the same ammo I saw at the last gun show. There are 3 or 4 Ace's thru out the Tri-Cities so I assume they All have some in stock.
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There is no shortage where I live now. You can walk into just about any gun store and buy as much as you want of 5.56
The rifles are slowly coming in; but, ammo is not!
You can't find .22 LR around here if your life depended on it. I purchased a S&W M&P 15-22 in early January and haven't even shot it yet because there is NO ammo available. ANYWHERE. It's friggin ridiculous. :confused:
I did find some a while back on gun broker, but I ain't paying $75 for a 525 rnd. brick.:eek: Stinking gougers.:mad:
One LGS here in Billings MT had CCI 22lr today for $4 a box and almost all LGS now have a real nice stock of 5.56 and .223.
The other day my local Walmart 5 min from me had 8 or 9 boxes of 555rd of win 22lr. I didn't get any but bought 4 boxes of 100 rd Winchester .40. They also had 7 boxes of 9mm Luger 100 rd Winchester.
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A little bit of ammo is trickling in, here and there. Just found 20 rnd. PMC X-TAC for $9.99 limit 5 per customer. 50 rnd. CCI 22LR Standard Velocity, $3.99 2 per.customer. 50 rnd. CCI 22LR Stingers, 2 per customer, and CCI maxi-mag 50 rnd for $13.99. No limit.
Not great prices and there where not a lot of stock left. But it is coming in. There was plenty of .45, .40, .357, 9mm etc., etc.
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Talking and understanding speech go hand in hand. By listening to others, your child learns what words sound like and how to put a sentence together.
As a baby, she discovered first how to make sounds, then how to make those sounds into real words ("mama" and "dada" may have slipped out as early as 4 or 5 months). By the time she was a year old, she was trying to imitate the sounds around her (though you probably heard her babbling away in a language that only she could understand).
Now comes a period of extraordinary growth, as your toddler goes from speaking a few simple words to asking questions, giving directions, and even telling you stories she's made up.
When and how it develops
Here's a general idea of how you can expect your toddler's verbal skills to progress. Keep in mind that every child is different. Children pick up language in stages, and kids may reach those stages at different times.
If your child varies somewhat from these general guidelines, don't worry. (If he's being raised in a bilingual environment, the number of words he can speak may be split between the two languages he's learning.)
12 to 18 months
By his first birthday, your child will probably begin to use one or two words meaningfully. Over the next few months, he'll try to copy words, and you may hear him babbling away as if he's having a real conversation. He'll even practice speech sounds, raising his tone when asking a question. He might say "Up-py?" when asking to be carried, for example.
Your toddler is learning the power of talking as a means of communicating his needs. Until he learns more words to get his ideas and desires across, he'll probably combine his speech with gestures to show what he wants. He'll reach his arms toward his favorite toy, for example, and say "ball."
Some toddlers develop a whole sign language of gestures to communicate with their parents. Your child might put his fingers to his lips when he wants food, for example, or pound on the table when he's frustrated.
Don't worry if he struggles to get his meaning across now and then. This frustration is actually a healthy sign that he's trying hard to communicate and cares whether you understand him.
By 18 months, your toddler will probably start making many common consonant sounds, such as t, d, n, w, and h. Learning to make these sounds is a watershed event, one that leads to the rapid vocabulary spurt that most children go through at this stage. Don't expect to hear all these sounds in actual words yet. But you may hear him repeating them when he's alone in his crib or playing with his toys.
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Your child now understands simple commands and questions. Each month she'll add more words to her vocabulary. Many of these words will be nouns that designate objects in her daily life, such as "spoon" and "car."
During this phase your child may begin stringing two words together, making basic sentences such as "Carry me." Since her grammar skills are still undeveloped, you'll hear odd constructions such as "Me go."
She's understood for some time that she needs language and will attempt to name new objects as she observes the world around her. She may overextend the words she already knows, though, so that all new animals are called "dogs," for example.
Starting around her second birthday, your child will begin using simple two- to four-word sentences and singing simple tunes. As her sense of self matures, she'll use "me" to refer to herself, and she's likely to tell you what she likes and doesn't, what she thinks, and what she feels.
You may also hear her say, "Jenny want juice" or "Baby throw," for instance. (Pronouns are tricky, so you may notice her avoiding them.)
25 to 30 months
Now that he has a bigger vocabulary, your toddler will begin to experiment with sound levels. For a while he may yell when he means to speak normally and whisper softly when answering a question, but he'll find the appropriate volume soon enough.
He's also starting to get the hang of pronouns, such as "I," "me," and "you." Between ages 2 and 3, his working vocabulary will grow to 200 words or more. He'll string nouns and verbs together to form complete but simple sentences, such as "I eat now."
He'll even get the hang of speaking about events that happened in the past. He may not quite understand the particulars of the past tense or plurals, though, so you'll hear him say things like "I runned" or "I swimmed," or "mouses" instead of "mice." Sure, it's cute, but it also shows that he's picking up on the basic rules of grammar (that you add a d sound to a word if it happened yesterday, for example, and an s sound to make things plural).
At this age, your child will start answering simple questions, such as "Do you want a snack?" and "Where are your shoes?" If you notice that he doesn't use two-word phrases, consistently echoes your familiar expressions, or doesn't respond to his name, bring it up with your child's doctor. Such behavior can be an early sign of a developmental delay.
31 to 36 months
By the time he turns 3, your child will be a more sophisticated talker. She'll be able to carry on a sustained conversation and adjust her tone, speech patterns, and vocabulary to fit the person she's talking to. For instance, she'll often use simpler words with a peer ("I need go potty") but more complex constructions with you ("I need to go to the bathroom"). She'll also understand simple rules of grammar and use plurals and pronouns correctly.
By now, other adults, including strangers, should be able to understand almost everything your child says, which means you won't have to do as much translating. She'll even be a pro at saying her first and last name and her age – and will readily oblige when asked.


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