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Press Briefing Transcripts
CDC Discusses Increase in Hib Meningitis Cases
January 23, 2009, 1:00 p.m. ET
OPERATOR: Welcome and thank you for standing by. We′d like to inform parties you are on listen only until today′s question and answer session. At that time to ask a question you may press star one. Also, today′s call is being recorded. If you have any objections you may disconnect at this time and now I′ll turn today′s conference over to Curtis Allen.
Thank you, you may begin.
CURTIS ALLEN: Yes, thank you Candy (ph).
This is Curtis Allen with the Centers for Disease Control press office. We′re here today to provide you some important information about Haemophilus influenzae type b. That is spelled H–A–E–M–O–P–H–I–L–U–S, new word, influenzae I–N–F–L–U–E–N–S–A–E type b and that is Hib meningitis. I mean Hib disease. I′m sorry. Wait, I may have misspelled it. I–N–F–L–U–E–N–Z–A–E. I′m sorry.
With us today is Dr. Anne Schuchat, that′s A–N–N–E S–C–H–U–C–H–A–T. Dr. Schuchat is the director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Also with us is Dr. Ruth Lynfield, L–Y–N–F–I–E–L–D. She′s the Minnesota State Epidemiologist.
We will begin with Dr. Schuchat and then we will move to Dr. Lynfield and then follow with questions. So, with that we will begin with Dr. Schuchat.
SCHUCHAT: Hello. I talked with many of you about a year or so ago about a supply problem that we were having with U.S. manufacturers of the Hib vaccine. It was with one of the manufacturers, the Merck manufacturer of that vaccine and at that time we altered our recommendations for routine vaccination of young children to focus on vaccinating children in the first year of life and deferring the booster vaccine for most children until the supply situation improved.
At that time we hoped that we had a cushion of protection in the country to keep rates down and we prioritized vaccine for those youngest children. Today we want to update you on a situation that′s occurring in Minnesota and in a few minutes Dr. Ruth Lynfield is going to tell you what′s happening in Minnesota.
Before that I want to give you a little bit of background about Hib disease and then let Dr. Lynfield give you the situation there and then I′m going to come back and talk about the rest of the country and what this means for parents and providers and then open things up for some questions from you all.
So, Hib disease...sorry about that, just turning that little ringer off. I want it known that was not my phone but someone else′s phone.
ALLEN: It was mine.
SCHUCHAT: So, Hib disease is a serious infectious disease, primarily of young children. It can present as meningitis which is an infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord or as other severe syndromes like pneumonia.
Children with Hib disease are typically hospitalized and they′re very ill and one in twenty of them die from the infection. Survivors from Hib can have long–term problems like hearing loss or other neurologic problems. You know, before we had vaccines against this disease there were about 20,000 Hib illnesses each year in the United States. But, a safe and effective vaccination program has resulted in major drops in disease; about a 99 percent drops since the vaccines were introduced in the early '90′s for infants.
Currently there are two manufacturers with licensed Hib products in the U.S.; Merck and sanofi. The Merck product has been in very limited supply for the past year and most providers are using the sanofi Hib vaccines either as single component Hib vaccine or a combination vaccine that has Hib together with other products.
The schedule for the sanofi vaccine which is the typical one that providers are using right now is for three doses to be given at two months, four months and six months of age. We have deferred the booster dose which is usually given at 12 to 15 months of age except for very high risk children like Native Americans, children with leukemia or other children who are at greater risk for this disease.
We are optimistic that the supply of Hib vaccine will be greatly increased by next summer and then at that time we′ll be able to reinstitute the booster dose and call children back in for that.
But now I want you to hear from Dr. Ruth Lynfield from Minnesota about a concerning situation in that state.
LYNFIELD: Thank you very much Dr. Schuchat.
I am glad that you are joining us this afternoon and I want to tell you about this situation that we actually are quite disturbed about in Minnesota which is that we have had five cases of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in young children in 2008.
This is the highest number of cases that we have had since 1992 when conjugate vaccine for infants became widely used. We also had one death and the last time we had a death in a child due Hib disease was in 1991. Among the five cases, three of the children were un–immunized because parents either refused the vaccine or wanted to defer the vaccine until the child was older.
One child was a five–month–old infant who had received a dose of vaccine at two months and at four months but hadn′t completed the primary series. So, that child was under immunized. Another child, a 15 month–old child had received the primary series however that child did develop meningitis at age 15 months and then was diagnosed with an immunodeficiency. So, that child was a vulnerable child. So what we are seeing here is a drop in herd immunity likely related to the vaccine shortage.
The story is a little more complicated though because when we went and looked at our immunization registry in fact we found that not only 12 to 15 month old children were not getting their booster as recommended during this shortage but in fact some of our infants were not completing the primary series. When we looked at seven month–old children, 18 percent fewer received their Hib vaccine compared with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine or diphtheria tetanus and cellular pertussis vaccine. So, infants are not receiving their primary series.
In a few minutes Dr. Schuchat and then Kirsten Ehresmann from our immunization program will talk a little bit about what we will be doing to remedy this situation.
I also just want to add that what is a couple of other features about these cases; one is that none of the children attended childcare. These cases occurred in five different counties in Minnesota and there were no epidemiological links. The way we conduct surveillance in Minnesota is that when a laboratory identifies Haemophilus influenzae in a blood culture or in a culture from spinal fluid or some other sterile site, it is reported to the Department of Health.
Thank you. At this point I think that the conversation will go back to Dr. Schuchat at CDC.
SCHUCHAT: Thank you, Ruth.
You know, what does this mean for parents and for providers and reporters and really for our country? I think there are several points we want to make sure you hear.
Parents, who wondered whether the Hib vaccine was really necessary, need to know that the disease is still around. It′s a very severe disease and we have safe and effective vaccines available that can protect their children. The situation where community protection was available and un–immunized children had relatively low risk of disease does not appear to be holding right now. We think it is likely there is increased exposure in Minnesota at least.
Although there is a limited supply of vaccine right now, we really want people to know that we have calculated, we′ve been talking with the manufacturer and we are fairly confident that we have enough vaccine for the basic protection. But it may take a little bit of time to smooth out the distribution system so that there′s vaccine where we need it at the right time. But in general we do have enough doses right now for that primary series. And as you heard from Dr. Lynfield, several of the cases in Minnesota had received no vaccines. Not because there wasn′t vaccine in the office.
Doctors who need more vaccine will be handling more questions about this but they can work with the company or with their health departments to arrange for more doses. CDC is working with the public health and healthcare system to address this challenge. Minnesota has a very good surveillance system. They′re part of a national network of ten states, the Emerging Infections Program Network where extra efforts are made to find all the cases of diseases like Hib so they have recognized this problem. We don′t′ know whether this problem is occurring in other states. From what we′ve looked at so far we aren′t aware of other clusters or other increases but we really want to heighten the awareness of doctors that it′s very important that they report cases to their health departments so that the health departments can look into the situation and do the appropriate testing to see whether there is a type b case or not.
So, the situation in Minnesota might be isolated or it might be the beginning of a worse trend in other places and we′re working hard to find out which of those stories will be the right one.
Of course we′ll be planning to update you as we know more. We do expect a much better supply of vaccine next summer where we hope to be reinstituting that booster dose and calling children back in to get the vaccine, the booster vaccine but in the meantime, if parents are not sure whether their children have gotten the full primary series, we really want them to take steps to be in touch with their providers and finish up the primary series.
If parents haven′t gotten their children vaccinated, parents of children under age five should make sure their child is vaccinated particularly is they have not received any doses of Hib vaccine. You know you weren′t sure whether this was an important vaccine or not, I truly want parents to understand how serious this disease is, that this is a very safe and effective vaccine. We′ve had experience with this for almost 20 years now in the United States in babies and we do believe we have enough vaccine for children to get the basic protection.
We are bringing this to your attention now to be on the precautionary side, to get the word out and to find out whether the problem is bigger than we think it is but of course any death from a vaccine preventable condition is just tragic and we really want to prevent any more.
I think we can probably take questions and then address some of the Minnesota as well as the national concerns now. Is that right?
ALLEN: Yes. Is there anything else you′d like to say, Minnesota?
MALE: Yes, Curtis, thank you. Here in Minnesota we would just like Kristen Ehresmann who′s our section manager for immunization, tuberculosis and international health to just say a few words about the immunization and vaccination situation in Minnesota and then we′ll turn it back for questions.
For the folks on the line, that′s Kristen, K–R–I–S–T–E–N Ehresmann, E–H–R–E–S–M–A–N–N.
KIRSTEN EHRESMANN: Thank you.
I just want to point out again that looking at the data for our Minnesota immunization registry we identified that about 18 percent of seven month olds had not received the necessary third dose of the Hib vaccination series although they have received other doses that would have been given at the six month time frame. And so right now in Minnesota our goal is to ensure that all infants born since the Hib vaccine shortage has completed a primary three dose series of Hib vaccine. We′re working with the CDC and sanofi pasteur to get our Hib containing vaccine allocations increased and we expect to have enough vaccine to both cover those children who need to complete their primary three dose series as well as those who are continuing on schedule.
We estimate that we need an additional 37,000 doses of vaccine to catch up the babies who have not completed their series at this point and that would be above and beyond our normal allocation. In the past 24 hours we have communicated with healthcare providers across the state so that they are aware of the situation and know that they need to be ordering additional vaccine.
We ask that parents would check their immunization records to see if their baby does need to catch up on their vaccination. If you have a child who′s less than 12 months of age and has not received three doses of vaccine, you should contact your healthcare provider and schedule an appointment. I want to point out as Dr. Schuchat said that vaccines are very safe and effective and we had a death in Minnesota from a child who was unvaccinated. We want to encourage parents who have delayed or refused vaccinations to reconsider as delaying and refusing vaccinations does result in serious consequences like Hib disease and in this case a death.
Hib vaccination not only protect your child but also babies who haven′t completed their primary series or infants who are unable to be vaccinated because of immune system difficulties or who are undergoing chemotherapy. Thank you.
ALLEN: OK, thank you. Candy (ph) let′s open it up for questions please.
OPERATOR: OK thank you and as a reminder for questions on the phone, please press star one and our first question comes from Brian Thompson. You′re line is open and state your affiliation please.
BRIAN THOMPSON: Kansas Public Radio. And I would like to first ask a technical request here and that is to if you would please speak into the phone rather than into the speaker phone because I′m having some sound quality issues on this end.
And what I wonder about is Haemophilus influenzae b, isn′t that a disease of itself? So what is the distinction between that and the meningitis that occurs with it and then I believe I heard the number of five cases of an invasive type in Minnesota so is that yet a third distinction? And I would like to know if that′s really what we′re concerned about, you know how do we draw any kind of conclusion as far you know concerns for other states based on five cases.
ALLEN: OK, I think Dr. Schuchat can take that.
SCHUCHAT: Yes, thank you for those questions. Haemophilus influenzae b is a bacteria that can cause several kinds of serious syndromes that we group together as invasive disease. A common type of those syndromes is meningitis. Other kinds of presentations are clinical presentations of disease are pneumonia and something called epiglottis which is a severe infection of the upper airway.
Your question about five cases in Minnesota and what does that mean for other states is an excellent one. We, so far, have not seen an increase in cases in other states although the Minnesota situation is a clear increase from their previous years of good surveillance. We now are calling on doctors and health departments to let us know, doctors letting their health departments know and then health departments through the usual reporting to us so that we can understand whether this is a more widespread problem or something just isolated to the Minnesota population. We really want parents throughout the country to know how important it is to check their children′s immunization records and realize that this bacteria is not gone; that it′s around and it can cause serious disease and vaccination is the best way to reduce their child′s chances of a real nightmare.
ALLEN: Thank you. Next question please.
OPERATOR: OK, thank you. Next, David Brown you′re line is open and state your affiliation.
David Brown: Yes, I′m with the Washington Post. It′s a little bit unclear to me how many of these cases are the result of refusal to vaccinate their children? You know and perhaps an anti–vaccine point of view completely independent of the supply issue.
ALLEN: Dr. Lynfield?
LYNFIELD: Yes, thank you Dr. Brown for that question.
Three of the cases occurred in children who were not immunized because the parents did not want their child immunized. Two occurred in parents who refused immunization. One occurred in a family where they deferred immunization until the children were around five years old.
I think you have another component to your question.
SCHUCHAT: Yes, Ruth let me add on.
As Ruth has said three of the five cases were not immunized. I think your question gets at whether we think this problem is because parents are refusing vaccine or we think this problem is because there′s a shortage and we actually think that both factors are relevant. The shortage could be contributing to an increase exposure to the bacteria in the community but the resistance to vaccination would increase the risk of an individual child upon exposure of getting disease.
Whether we will see this anywhere else is going to be a combination of factors. How much of the bacteria is circulating and whether children are immunized or not. At this point it′s quite possible that there′s more bacteria circulating than there used to be but I want everyone to remember what we saw with measles. These diseases are in other parts of the world and can be a plane ride away. The Minnesota situation may or may not relate to changes in exposure in their own community but clearly every child who came down with this terrible disease was exposed to the bacteria.
ALLEN: Do you have a follow–up David? Next question please.
OPERATOR: The next question we have Daniel DeNoon. You′re line is open and please state your affiliation.
DANIEL DENOON: I′m with WebMD, thank you. Dr. Lynfield I missed the percentage there. You said you′re looking among 18 month old kids in your look back and you saw that a certain percentage fewer got vaccinated. What was that percentage?
LYNFIELD: Oh, I will restate that. And I′m sorry....can you hear me clearly because I have a microphone and then there′s a speakerphone and so maybe people are not able to hear what I say. Can you hear me?
Daniel DeNoon: I′m hearing you clearly now.
LYNFIELD: OK. What it was is that we looked at our immunization registry data during the shortage looking at seven month old children so these are children who should have received three doses of Hib vaccine okay, because during the shortage the primary series could only be completed by a series of three Hib vaccines and when we compared seven month old children who received Hib vaccine with the children who received two other vaccines at that same age, 18 percent fewer received Hib vaccine. Therefore we interpret this as a manifestation of a shortage of vaccine that providers did not have vaccine in the office to vaccinate these infants and in fact we have heard from our pediatricians, our family physicians, and the nurses at the clinic that they don′t have enough vaccine in certain areas of the state.
SCHUCHAT: Just to add onto that. Again the situation in Minnesota is the focus of the call here, but in our discussions with the manufacturer and our review of the public sector vaccine that we have and we are providing, we do believe that nationwide we have an adequate supply for the primary series for the basic protection as we′ve been talking about but not for the booster dose. For the situation in Minnesota, is one that we′re working closely together with to meet these problems. But in terms of the country as a whole we haven′t yet heard that kind of challenge. We do think there are some practice issues that we want to remind providers about. The sanofi vaccine that is the main one being used right now is a three dose primary series. The Merck vaccines that used to make up about half of the market but is no longer very much available were the two dose primary series. So, we want to make sure providers and parents know in using these newer vaccine formulations from sanofi, they have to give three doses to get the primary protection.
ALLEN: Next question from the phone, please.
OPERATOR: OK, thank you. Miriam Falco, your line is open and state your affiliation.
Miriam Falco: Hi, CNN Medical News. My question is for the doc from Minnesota. Number one, do you know how many children in Minnesota aren′t getting any vaccinations at all? And is there an exemption for....is there a way parents can get out of getting the Hib vaccines since this is one of those that are really, really important?
LYNFIELD: Thank you very much for that question. I′m going to let our immunization manager Kristen Ehresmann answer that.
EHRESMANN: Minnesota does have an exemption in our childcare law that allows parents to opt out of vaccination based on conscientious objection. So, there is an option for parents to choose not to vaccinate their children as it relates to our childcare law but as Dr. Lynfield mentioned earlier when she was describing the cases, none of these five children were in daycare so that law would not have affected them. When we look at our exemption rates and they are somewhat difficult to measure; historically we have had a couple of key surveys that have indicated Minnesota′s exemptions when we looked at all kindergarteners in the state and we saw that exemption rate increase from the early '90′s to early 2000 from 1.5 percent to about three percent. We′re not exactly sure what the rate is currently but we do know that there are a number of parents who have chosen not to vaccinate in Minnesota.
ALLEN: OK, let′s take a couple of questions from the room in Minnesota. Do we have any questions in Minnesota?
FEMALE: Can you talk about...
LYNFIELD: I′m sorry, can you state your name and.....
MALE: You don′t have to repeat.....
MARTINA (ph) (INAUDIBLE): Martina (ph) (INAUDIBLE), Associated Press. I′m wondering if you can talk a little bit more about Merck and why the providers in Minnesota are using Merck and why they haven′t switched over and is this what′s happening in other states and if so, why?
EHRESMANN: The providers across the country choose vaccinations based on their preference. And so what we found looking at our immunization data was that our providers for their private practices were choosing the Merck vaccine at a higher rate than the product produced by sanofi prior to the shortage. So, when the shortage occurred in Minnesota, obviously the impact would be greater for those providers that had used the Merck vaccine because they would not necessarily have had you know extra stores of vaccine and that type of thing. So, we do think that Minnesota was harder hit because of the preferred use of the Merck product. Does that answer your question?
SCHUCHAT: Let me just add on. I think across the nation before the shortage, there was about a 50/50 split and the public purchased the vaccine that CDC organizes buy both products. CDC has been working very closely with the manufactures, with FDA and with the state programs to work out allocations of vaccine to really minimize the disruption that this supply problem has. And I thin that what we′re seeing in Minnesota is a need for extra attention and we are quite committed to work carefully with the state to address the local problems.
ALLEN: Do we have another question from Minnesota?
EHRESMANN: Let me just clarify. Did that answer your question?
MARTINA (ph) (INAUDIBLE): I guess underlying question I have is, is this showing up in Minnesota because we have a problem with our vaccine or is it showing up because of the better surveillance?
EHRESMANN: I think that it′s probably a combination of factors. Our registry data suggested that we did have a higher proportion of providers that used the Merck product and so as Dr. Schuchat said, we need to work on our allocations to make sure we have adequate vaccine but definitely Dr. Lynfield can talk more about our surveillance but we have an excellent surveillance system in Minnesota that contributes to detecting disease.
SCHUCHAT: Let me expand on that. I think in Minnesota we′ve seen a few things in terms of the description and we don′t have necessarily the same situation elsewhere. Minnesota is one of ten states with the extra special surveillance who may have an earlier awareness of what′s going on both for disease and for immunization because through their registry review they were able to look at what was going on in 2008.
So, regardless of which vaccine they were using before the shortage, I think a very important finding that Dr. Lynfield stressed was that many children who had gotten two doses of Hib vaccine did not actually get their third dose even though they apparently got other vaccines at the right time. The issue of disease is that at least for ten states that are in a strong active surveillance system, Minnesota appears to be unusual. But the other states may or may not have problems that we haven′t detected. For coverage, we don′t know yet of other states that like Minnesota have this drop–off in this third dose. But the third point is that remember, three of the five cases in Minnesota are in people with absolutely no vaccine and as we shared with you during our measles discussion, our national figures for vaccination rates are still quite high and most children get most of the vaccines but there may be clustering of un–immunized people that are occurring in areas that we don′t detect with our nation or state level tracking.
So, if there are other communities where there are other individuals who haven′t been vaccinated and the Hib strain is circulating like it obviously is in Minnesota they will be just as vulnerable as these children in Minnesota have been. So, it′s truly a multifactorial story. A shortage situation that may have limited the cushion of protection we had in the community. A surveillance situation where in a few weeks we may have better information about the rest of the country and as this winter season evolves we may or may not see up ticks elsewhere. And then this issue of resisting or refusing vaccines which we take very seriously; as a doctor and a public health leader it′s very important to me for parents to have good information to make the best choices possible for their children. Hib disease is very severe. A vaccine against Hib is very safe and highly effective and I really want every parent to know that when they make their healthcare choices.
ALLEN: OK, Candy (ph) let′s take a question from the phone.
OPERATOR: OK, thank you. Next Mike Stobbe, your line is open and state your affiliation.
MIKE STOBBE: Hi, it′s Mike at AP. Thanks for taking the question. First just to clarify, from these five cases, three didn′t get any vaccine because of parental decision. One child was five months old and the other had other circumstances so none of these cases did a child not get vaccine because there was a shortage, is that correct?
LYNFIELD: That is correct. I should say they did not lack their primary series. What has been recommended during the shortage is that children not get the booster dose at 12 to 15 months of age.
ALLEN: OK. Next question from the phone please.
OPERATOR: OK, thank you. Next, Jennifer Corbitt your line is open and state your affiliation.
JENNIFER CORBITT: Yes, I′m with Dow Jones. One question I had on the five cases, did they all have meningitis or not necessarily?
EHRESMANN: No, they didn′t. Three of the children had meningitis including one whose disease was complicated by what′s called a subdural empyema which is actually a collection of pus in the brain. So, it′s very severe. One of the children with meningitis died. And then we had a child who had pneumonia and a child who had epiglottitis which is the disease that Dr. Schuchat had mentioned can result in a swollen throat, closing off the airway.
ALLEN: Why don′t we take a couple of questions from Minnesota? Minnesota.
MALE: I just have one question. Can you tell us what part of the state...was it in the metro here? Were they all here in the metro or were they scattered throughout the state?
LYNFIELD: They were in five different counties. One of the counties is considered part of the seven county metro. The other counties were in the central part of the state.
ALLEN: It is important to note that these were not connected. Is that correct?
LYNFIELD: That is correct. They were not connected. In fact we did molecular sub–typing on the strain and although two of the strains appeared to be similar and there was another one that was related, there were two completely different strains. They varied temporally and they had no connections that we could detect between each other epidemiologically.
ALLEN: So, another question from Minnesota?
FEMALE: Was the child who died (INAUDIBLE)?
LYNFIELD: Yes.
FEMALE: Can you say how old?
EHRESMANN: I have that information I′ll pass around.
LYNFIELD: I would just say that the child was old enough to have received immunization, had not received immunization and very sadly and we feel horrible about this as we do about all the cases but certainly about a death and our sympathies go out to the family and that′s why it′s so important that the message that Dr. Schuchat said, gets out to parents that this vaccine is safe. This is a very dangerous infection. We have a tool to take care of it. Doctors who were seeing patients 20 years ago all have very vivid images of young children coming in with these horrible infections, some of whom died. And I can′t emphasize enough how important it is to use this tool in our toolbox. This is a preventable infection. We have to get this message out to everybody that we can to use this vaccine.
ALLEN: OK, we′ll take another call from the phone, please.
OPERATOR: OK, thank you. Carrie Walker (ph) your line is open, and state your affiliation.
CARRIE WALKER (ph): Hi, I′m with Pediatric News. I have a question about what physicians and pediatricians should do in order to make sure that they have adequate supplies of the sanofi vaccine.
SCHUCHAT: You know, pediatricians and family physicians are used to ordering vaccines from the companies and they′re used to the provisions from the health departments of the public sector vaccine so they should use those routine mechanisms. If they order from sanofi it′s the same way as always. The company is eager to work with them and we do believe that you know the appropriate request can be met. The idea is not to you know stock up on vaccine for 12 months but to make sure that there′s sufficient vaccine in your office so the children who could come in any day can get vaccinated. So, I think that this is going to take a little bit of time to smooth it out but that′s basically the recommendation. For Minnesota we′re working especially closely with the health department and the company to address those needs.
ALLEN: OK, one more call from the phone, please.
OPERATOR: Thank you. David Brown, your line is open and state your affiliation.
DAVID BROWN: Yes, it′s David Brown with the Washington Post. First of all can the speakers please identify themselves it′s really hard to know who′s talking? I don′t recognize all the voices. What is the absolute coverage, not the relative compared to people who you know are getting the pneumococcal at seven months but what′s the absolute coverage for Hib in Minnesota? And does this mini outbreak of these cases suggest that there′s an unexpected waning of immunity that three doses aren′t enough to suppress it in express circulation in the community or in fact is it the fact that there′s probably a lot of people who have no immunity, have gotten no vaccine explains the likely circulation?
SCHUCHAT: David, this is Anne Schuchat. Let me begin and then let Dr. Lynfield continue with the Minnesota situation.
Unfortunately there′s a little bit apples and oranges here. The national estimate for Hib vaccine coverage with at least three doses is based on our national immunization survey and looks at children between 19 and 35 months of age. Our information for the 2007 survey was that national coverage was at 92.6 percent. The statistics that Dr. Lynfield was talking about was with a more recent look at seven month olds. She may be able to give you additional information but I don′t want you to compare the 92.6 percent at 19 to 35 months with these more recent looks at seven month olds.
The second part of your question was bout waning immunity. There is no evidence that waning immunity is a problem here. Three of the children had no vaccine so they would have no vaccine induced immunity. You need either vaccine or exposure to the bacteria that you survive to basically get immunity. So, these children were totally unprotected. A waning immunity in the picture would look quite different than what we′re seeing here. So, I think Dr. Lynfield could give you more information about absolute immunization coverage in Minnesota.
LYNFIELD: Dr. Brown, this is Ruth Lynfield and Kirsten Ehresmann will give some of those statistics but I do want to mention and I don′t know if this was behind your question or not but, we do think that when there are high immunization rates among children in a community that there′s herd immunity. And it may be that because of the shortage that that herd immunity has dropped and it′s being first manifest in un–immunized or under immunized or vulnerable because they can′t produce a good immune response; so those types of children. one think we are going to do in Minnesota is to survey young children. 2,000 young children in Minnesota to try to determine the carriage rate for Hib and that might lend some insight to getting a sense of this issue.
EHRESMANN: This Kirsten Ehresmann and let me just give you specific data. This data is taken from the Minnesota Immunization Registry and what we looked at was, we looked at doses of vaccines that children would normally be getting and then compared the DTAP vaccine, the Prevnar or the pneumococcal vaccine and then the Hib vaccine and what we saw was that for instance, when 97 percent of children received one dose of the DTAP vaccine then 96 percent had received the Hib vaccine. So, that was very similar for the first dose. For the second dose 86.3 percent had received the DTAP vaccine and 82.4 percent had received the Hib vaccine.
So again, very similar so you would be expecting that these children are coming into the office and being vaccinated with both of these vaccines simultaneously. And then when we looked at the third dose, that was where we saw the difference. So while 63 percent of the children had received their DTAP vaccine at seven months, only 46 percent had received the Hib vaccine and that is where we′re getting that difference. So, those kids were coming into the office and we would have expected them to have a similar vaccination picture but they did not get the Hib vaccine and that′s what suggests to us that they weren′t completing three dose series and there was not adequate vaccination for them.
ALLEN: OK, we′ll have one more call from the phone and then take a couple of questions from Minnesota.
OPERATOR: Thank you. We have one last question from the phone. Mike Stobbe your line is open and state your affiliation.
STOBBE: Hi, from AP, thank. The child that died, was this a boy or a girl and also was that a case where the parents deferred vaccination or was it one where they said flat out no?
LYNFIELD: Mike, this is Dr. Lynfield. I don′t really feel comfortable answering those questions. What is important here is the parents did not want the child vaccinated at that age and the child had invasive Haemophilus influenzae disease and died from the infection?
ALLEN: Thank you. Do we have a couple of questions from Minnesota? And then we'll close this out. Minnesota?
MALE: I think we're done.
ALLEN: Ok, thank you. Anne Schuchat has one more thing to say.
SCHUCHAT: Yes, I do want to let people know that we′re expecting later on MMWR with more details on this will be on our Web site and we also want people to know that our Web site at www.cdd.gov/vaccines there′s a lot more information that might be helpful for parents and we′ll be adding on to what′s available there.
ALLEN: I would like to add to that there will be a transcript on the Web site later this afternoon at CDC.gov/media and the MMWR will be posted later this afternoon, and there′s additional information not only for providers but for parents on the Web site that is up now. And that is at cdc.gov/vaccine.
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Vail Daily obituary: Nancy Mines, 1932-2013
July 28, 2013
Nancy McHugh Mines, 80, of Edwards, died at her home Saturday.
She was born Oct. 17, 1932, to James and Mary McHugh. Born and raised in Chicago, she graduated from Mundelein College in Chicago with a B.A. in philosophy and minor in economics.
Nancy moved to Boulder with her husband, Tom, and their seven children, then retired to Edwards in 1990. Nancy's sports passions were tennis and skiing. She skied well into her 70s. She loved spending time with her husband, Tom, their seven children and spouses, eight grandchildren and friends. She was a life-long learner and fabulous role model. She will be terribly missed.
She is survived by her husband, Tom Mines; sons Mike Mines, Tom Mines and Jim Mines; daughters Chris Mines Roe, Kathy Mines Manley, Susan Mines and Joan Mines Sego; and brother James McHugh.
Services will be at the Beaver Creek Chapel at 11 a.m. on Friday. Her ashes will be placed in the Living Wall in the Minturn Cemetery.
Please make contributions to Hospice of the Vail Valley or Brain Injury Foundation of Colorado.
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Knots of Rugs & Carpets:The type and number of knots are two important properties in Persian rugs. There are different types of knots used in different type of weaving. The two major types of knots are asymmetric (Persian, Senneh) and symmetric (Turkish) knots. In this page, we try to explain about these knots and the regions of IRAN those are using these types of rugs.
Asymmetric Knots (Persian, Senneh):
Symmetric knots (Turkish):
There is no advantage or disadvantage of using any of these knots. Knowing the types of the knots in your rugs it's a good indicator of the region that your rug was made. The main important issue in knots is the number of them in specific length. In IRAN, they use metric system so the number of knots in 7 cm is called RAJ is one of standard of quality of the rug. In the US and England that are using English units, the number of knots per square inch (KPSI) is
getting used to define the quality of a
There are flat-woven rugs that you cannot count the number of the knots due to the way the weaver make those knots. Most probably the majority of tribal rugs such as Qashgai,Bakhtiariand some Kurdish rugs belong to this family. Some village rugs also use flat-woven structure.
The following table explains the number of the knots in different system and its conversion:
The formula to convert the RAJ to KPSI is :
[(RAJ/7) x2.54]^2=KPSI


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"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity" – Charles Mingus
Dean West has won several different awards for his advertising work, and was even named "Saatchi & Saatchi's World's Top Emerging Photographer" in 2008. But, what stands out to me are his conceptual portraits. Not only are they wildly creative, but his execution, the compositing and post-processing, are absolutely superb. [via Beware]
I love finding work that just makes me smile. Looking through Sam Nielson's whimsical illustrations left me in a good mood all day and made me want to be a kid again. [via Cruzine]
I know I shouldn't feel this way, but I'm still fascinated by how out of place the Amish look in such a technology-saturated world of 21st-century America. These photographs, by Lottie Hedley, show another side of the American experience; a strong sense of family, a dedication to community, and lives rich with meaning and purpose, despite the uncanny lack of "modernity". [via Feature Shoot]
We are suckers for portraits of pets. Traer Scott travels the country and creates these compelling (and sometimes heartbreaking) portraits of dogs living in shelters. Though many are adopted, others are not, making these portraits that much more poignant. [via Design You Trust]
This is the Ted Talk video that accompanies the article we wrote about Anton Kusters and the photographs he took of the Yakuza. In the video, Kusters discusses the two-year process that he went through to gain permission to photograph some of the top members as well as some of the more interesting encounters along the way.


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Emma Watson has shown she's got one thing in common with her character Hermione in the Harry Potter films - they're both at the top of the class!
The actress got her A-level results on Thursday, and she got As in all her subjects - English literature, geography and art.
The 18-year-old says she's "absolutely thrilled" with her results.
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After graduating from Victoria College, Stellenbosch, he moved to Pretoria (1914), where he entered the civil service. Three years later he qualified in law at Pretoria University and began a successful practice at Nylstroom, Transvaal. Strijdom became increasingly interested in politics, however, paying particular attention to the rights of his fellow Afrikaners. In 1929 he was elected to Parliament as a member of the Nationalist National Party from Waterberg, a seat he continued to hold until his death. His tenacity in political matters led to his characterization as "the Lion of Waterberg."
Strijdom was a loyal follower of J.B.M. Hertzog, prime minister and leader of the Nationalist National Party, until 1934, when Hertzog and Jan Smuts entered into a coalition. For a time Strijdom was the only member of Parliament from the Transvaal to support Daniel F. Malan's Purified Nationalist Party, contributing much to its victory in the election of 1948. He was rewarded with the post of minister of lands and irrigation in Malan's Cabinet. In that office for six years, he became well - known for advocating white supremacy in South Africa.
After the retirement of Malan, Strijdom succeeded him as head of the party and on Dec. 3, 1954, assumed the office of prime minister. Strijdom's rise to power represented a victory for the party's more extreme Transvaal faction over the moderate Cape faction. As a result, he pursued a policy of strict apartheid, which was furthered by radically changing the composition of the Senate in 1955 so as to ensure the necessary two-thirds majority in a joint sitting of both houses of Parliament. The following year the Cape Coloured voters were placed on a separate electoral rollremoved from the common voting rolls. Strijdom fell ill in December 1957 and was succeeded on his death by Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd.


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Lemm is one of the top tight ends in the Mississippi class of 2016 and all three in-state schools are showing interest in the talented youngster.
"Southern Miss, Ole Miss, Mississippi State are all showing interest in me," said the 6-foot-4, 225-pounder.
Although he doesn't have an offer from any of the three, he's working hard in hopes that one will be forthcoming.
"The coaches tell me to keep getting better and work all that I can, (and) over the summer I hit the weights hard, conditioned hard and tried to get better when we did our scrimmage," said Lemm.
Due to his hard work, he has seen improvements in his overall game.
"My blocking and catching have gotten better but I still have a lot of work to do," said Lemm, who runs the forty-yard dash in the 4.6 to 4.7 range. "That is what I always tell myself."
Keep it on GenesPage.com and Scout.com as we continue to follow this talented member of the class of 2016.
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In 2005, Heartland Bank opened an office at Friendship Village of Dublin, a local retirement community built on quality, stability and attention to detail. Nine years later, we're still proud to be a part of the Friendship Village family. In addition to Heartland Banker Cheril Lee, who oversees the daily operations from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., there is an ATM machine in the lobby of the facility.
On Thursday, August 28, Heartland Bank will host the 9th anniversary celebration for the residents of Friendship Village. They will enjoy an update from Chairman, President & CEO, G. Scott McComb and he will answer the question "Will my CD ever make money again?"
Four lucky residents will be randomly selected to receive door prizes among which will be two Heartland throw blankets. Following tradition, the afternoon will end with each resident receiving a warm loaf of Heartland Honey Wheat Bread, fresh from Westerville's Great Harvest Bread Company.
Heartland Bank has been serving the communities of Central Ohio since 1911, and is committed to building and expanding a solid, customer-friendly community bank. Chairman, President & CEO, G. Scott McComb said, "Heartland Bank is the kind of bank where you are known and where your business is appreciated. We pride ourselves on being a true community bank - we strive to give back to our community some of the rewards they have given us. We are pleased and proud to be able to serve the residents of Friendship Village of Dublin and its employees."
Friendship Village of Dublin was opened in 1981 by a group of Columbus citizens with experience in the field of senior living who were committed to developing a not-for-profit retirement living community to serve the people of Columbus, Ohio. This same organization owns and operates the community today. Their dedication and success are evidenced by the fact that many former board members have, over the years, chosen to become residents of Friendship Village of Dublin.
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Dale Rio obtained her MFA in photography from Pratt Institute in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant and the Miguel Vinciguerra Grant to shoot life in rural Sicily. She has continued to travel extensively and has worked as a freelance photographer and writer for over fifteen years. Dale's photographic work is varied. She has been shooting the world of burlesque for nearly ten years, has a landscape series about historic Route 66, began documenting the Japanese tea ceremony in 2008, photographs wild horse herds, recreates crime scenes with the feel of vintage images, and shoots roller derby in the capacity of owner, editor, and contributor for Blood & Thunder Magazine. She has also done portraiture, promotional and fashion photography, and live performance photography commercially.


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Washington, DC — Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Incoming Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, Incoming Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, Incoming Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and Senator Jack Reed sent the following letter to President Bush, calling for the appointment of a special envoy to Iraq.
The text of the letter is below.
November 28, 2006
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to urge you to appoint a special envoy to work full-time with the Iraqi government and other regional players to reaffirm the basic message that the Iraqis must reach a political settlement and to help find immediate, tangible ways to quell the violence, provide services, and create long-term peace and stability.
We commend you for meeting with Prime Minister al-Maliki in Jordan this week and we strongly urge you to advise him that the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq is not open-ended and that the American people are impatient with the failure of the Iraqi political leaders to reach a political compromise.
Your timely meeting will allow you and the Prime Minister to review the situation in Iraq and consider what next steps need to be taken. However, it is unlikely that all decisions can or will be made in a single meeting. Therefore, we believe that a U.S. special envoy, who is known to the Iraqis and other regional players and reports directly to you, is required to follow up on issues discussed at the meeting and ensure continued attention to these matters. U.S. Ambassador Khalilizad continues to do a remarkable job, yet we believe that he has too many other on-the-ground responsibilities to provide undivided attention to the broader initiative that is necessary.
Violence in Iraq has reached critical levels, and the violence is not predominantly instigated by insurgents, but is taking place between Sunnis and Shia. It is our belief that Coalition military action alone cannot end this violence. Indeed, General Abizaid has testified that more U.S. troops will not address the fundamental problems in Iraq. This internal strife can only be stopped by a political solution that is created and implemented by the Iraqis themselves. Prime Minister al-Maliki acknowledged this fact when he stated on Sunday that "The crisis is political, and the ones who can stop the cycle of aggravation and bloodletting of innocents are the politicians." A special envoy can play an indispensable role in assisting the Iraqis in finding solutions.
We have previously written to you on a number of occasions outlining sound changes in U.S. policy that would give our troops and the Iraqi people the best chance for success. In addition to beginning the phased redeployment from Iraq and transitioning the U.S mission in Iraq within the next 4 to 6 months, we strongly believe your Administration needs to more proactively pressure Iraqi leaders to disarm the militias and to develop a broad-based and sustainable political settlement, including considering amendments to the Constitution to achieve a fair sharing of power and resources. We also believe it is imperative to convene an international conference and contact group to support a political settlement in Iraq and to preserve Iraq's sovereignty. We hope you will revisit those recommendations in light of the growing crisis confronting Iraq.
In service of this recommended change of course in Iraq strategy, we believe that your discussions, and any follow-up actions by a special envoy, should include addressing the following actions by the Iraqi government, linked to a specific schedule:
- Iraqi government and religious leaders must clearly and publicly condemn all sectarian violence.
- Militias must be disbanded.
- The Iraqi government must begin serving the needs of all Iraqis. For example, evidence indicates that the Shia-dominated Ministry of Health is not assisting Sunnis, and that the government is not paying Sunni soldiers in al-Anbar province. Such actions, whether deliberate or not, lead to increased tensions and strife.
- The Iraqi government must pass legislation which provides for equitable sharing of oil revenues.
- The Iraqi government must begin to use a portion of oil revenues to provide basic services to Iraqis in all areas of the country.
- The Iraqi government must follow through on its commitment to pass constitutional changes to provide for a more inclusive government.
- The Iraqi government must accelerate the process providing for provincial elections, again to allow Sunnis participation in governmental affairs.
We understand that all of these steps are difficult. We are also aware that the Iraqi government has pledged to take many of the above steps but none have been accomplished. In the meantime, our U.S. forces continue to be injured and killed. For these reasons, we believe that appointing a special envoy to Iraq, dedicated to helping the Iraqis reach a political solution supported by other regional players, is a necessary step for the United States to take at this time.
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Senator Harry Reid
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All-Star Scott Hartnell recorded a Gordie Howe hat trick and the Philadelphia Flyers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday.
Sergei Bobrovsky was forced to make a couple of outstanding saves in the third period to improve to 12-5-1 on the season. The Russian stopped 24 shots in the victory.
Toronto's Tyler Bozak scored his second goal of the second period at 18:09 to cap off a wild six-goal period. Bozak roofed his 12th of the season from the top of the crease to pull the Leafs to within a goal at 4-3.
Rookie Brayden Schenn gave the Flyers a 4-2 lead at 15:07 when he buried a rebound off Danny Briere's shot. Schenn's sixth of the season came about a minute before All-Star Claude Giroux scored his 21st of the season.
All-Star Joffrey Lupul tied the game at 2-2 on the power play at 5:57 with his 22nd of the season.
Max Talbot tipped in his 13th of the season at 3:48 to give the Flyers a 2-1 lead after Bozak netted his first of the game for Toronto.
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The Concrete Producer and Concrete Construction magazines recently received a letter requesting information on aged concrete mixers from the Gorham Historical Society.
Seeing articles about old cement trucks on your website makes me think that you might enjoy a photo and some info about a 1920's era concrete mixer recently resurrected after 60 years of storage in a barn in Gorham, N.H.
Roger Cloutier got it limbered up and running! He had the Novo 4 HP(?) hit and mix engine going and the drum turning, while it was strapped on his trailer, pulled by an old John Deere tractor, on the 4th of July.
It was owned by the Libby Sawmill. Old timers remember using the beast, estimated to weigh around 2,800 pounds.
Reuben Rajala, President, Gorham (NH) Historical Society
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TOP STORY >> Library seen as changing Main St.
By SARA GREENE
Leader staff writer
Described by the designer as being a monumental civic building in a park setting, early sketches of what the new Esther DeWitt Nixon Public Library will look like enticed more than 50 Jacksonville residents out to a public meeting for the $2.5 million structure Wednesday night.
The 13,884-square-foot library will be built along Main Street, across from the Jacksonville Shopping Center and adjacent to Walgreens Pharmacy. The 20 foot tall building will be about 40 percent larger than the current library.
There was some disagreement between whether the exterior should be red or beige brick but it will not have a flat roof like many of the other older buildings in downtown Jack-sonville says designer David Sargent of the Witsell, Evans, Rasco architecture firm. We want people to look at it and know it is a library, so they dont have to ask what the building is, Sargent said.
The north side of the building will have a nearby gazebo, benches and a 150-foot covered walkway with pillars. The length of the walkway concerned some residents.
I have a lot of friends who cant walk and 150 feet is a long way for them to travel, said Marilyn Canon of Jacksonville. Canon said she uses the Nixon library two to three times a week.
Sargent said the south entrance would be wheelchair accessible and much closer to handicapped parking spots for patrons who find it difficult to walk.
Inside, library will have a vestibule that separates the general circulation area from a 1,000 square foot multi-purpose room complete with kitchenette and restrooms. The layout allows people to use the multipurpose part of the building then the library itself isnt open.
With large glass windows on the north side of the building and glass block walls inside, the library will have abundant sunlight without being overheated in the summer.
The building will be lit at night, lights will be left on inside and the outside will be lit with floodlights and other lighting.
There will be 3,204 square foot of general circulation area, 3,500 square foot of bookshelves, 1,200 square foot computer lab and a 1,200 square foot childrens reading area.
One highlight of the building is plans for a walled garden area, accessible from the childrens reading area where youngsters can take their books outside to read.
Cherry furniture, wooden ceiling tiles and cork flooring will make the interior of the build inviting. The entire building will be equipped with high-speed wireless Internet for laptop computer users too.
Bobby Roberts, director of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), said hed like to landscape the property to make it look more like a park with evergreens on the west side and oaks or similar trees on the north side along Main Street.
I think its important the landscaping is done correctly. Hopefully the building style and landscaping could set a trend and spread throughout the city, Roberts said.
CALS would maintain the landscaping he added.
This will be second largest library in CALS, Roberts said.
The current building the Nixon library calls home was constructed in 1969. It is one of the oldest buildings in the Central Arkansas Library System.
Along with being old, the Nixon library is small with 9,265 square feet. The new library will be approximately 13,500 square feet. Excluding the Nixon Library, the average Central CALS building is five-years-old and has about 14,000 square feet.
In 2004, the Nixon library was closed for a month while a leak in the roof was repaired. About 200 books were damaged from the leaking roof. Several computers got wet as water leaked heavily through the roof to the buildings interior, about 40 ceiling tiles were damaged to the point of breaking and falling to the library floor. Workers cleaned the tiles and used a shop vacuum for about six hours to remove flooding water from the floor.
The drainage system failed when one of the roof drains got plugged, and instead of backing up onto the roof, the rainwater soaked into the ceiling until water leaked through.
During the closure, workers removed asbestos insulation from a 950-square-foot area above the circulation desk. The Nixon library still has asbestos materials in 488-square-feet of floor tile in the back room where the librarians work, in 30 segments of pipe insulation and in 200 foot of caulking between the buildings exterior and window units.
The next public meeting for the library will be in early spring Sargent said.


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Raspberry Pi
- Download the image from http://xsce.activitycentral.com/downloads/rpi-xsce-0.4-1.img.gz, and the rpi-xsce-0.4-1.img.md5sum (-1,-2,-3, etc will include more recent fixes).
- Gunzip the <xxxx.img.gz> file.
- Run md5sum on the expanded .img file and compare with cat < rpi-xsce...img.md5sum.
- Determine the /dev/<name> of the SD card you want to use with the Raspberry Pi.
- Use dd to write the image to the SD card:
dd if=<file name> of=</dev/name>(probably /dev/sdb or mmcblk0). Don't include the "p1,p2" because the partition table gets written by the image.
- The image was created with an unprivileged user "admin" and a password of "12admin". If you don't have USB keyboard, mouse, and digital monitor, you can ssh in with these credentials. Sometimes you can view the IP addresses passed out by your router with a web browser to get the the Raspberry Pi's IP address.
- Root password is "fedora". Change this if you have pranksters in your vicinity by becoming root, and using command line "passwd".
- Change to user root by typing su. enter the password for root
- It's recommended to resize the SD card partition to it's maximum available size. GParted or a similar tool would do the trick.
- type xs-setup-network
To test the latest code:
- Change directory by typing cd /etc/yum.repos.d.
- type rm xs-devel.repo when prompted type y
- Download the needed yum repo file by typing wget http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce-rel4.repo.
- Ensure you can access all the repos with yum repolist (can be repeated if an error occurs.)
- type yum update xs-config
- type xs-setup
CAVEATS: Raspberry Pi is armv6 architecture, and XO is armv7hl. Some rpm packages are not available in the required form and some functions will have incomplete support. i.e:
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Playoff races enter the home stretch
With the baseball and softball regular seasons coming down to a very wet wire, several area teams are in the thick of playoff races while a handful have already punched their WPIAL tickets.
The inclement weather has wreaked havoc with games scheduled this week, but here is how the area post-season races are shaping up:
BASEBALLClass AAA
In Section 4, Belle Vernon Area (9-4, 5-4) is one game behind third place South Park (8-6, 6-3) for the final playoff spot in the section, with Elizabeth Forward (7-7, 3-5) not totally out of the picture.
BVA has remaining section games against second-place Thomas Jefferson, Carrick and EF, while South Park has games against first place West Mifflin, EF and Ringgold.
If the Leps can pick up a game on South Park and finish tied for third, both would qualify for the playoffs.
Class AA
In Section 2, Charleroi (7-7, 6-5) is in forth place, two games behind third place Chartiers-Houston (9-3, 7-3).
The Cougars have three games remaining against Burgettstown, Chartiers-Houston and Brownsville.
The Cougars need to win and will need some help to get in.
Class A
In Section 1, California (14-0, 8-0) has already clinched a playoff berth and with games remaining against second place Carmichaels and Jefferson-Morgan, and would clinch the section crown with a win over the Mikes (8-1, 5-1).
In Section 2, Monessen (5-6, 4-3) is in third place and Frazier (4-8, 3-4) is in fourth.
The Greyhounds, who made the playoffs a year ago for the first time in 26 seasons, have games remaining against Geibel (0-9, 0-6), first place Serra (10-3, 7-0) and Clairton (1-6, 1-5) and will clinch a playoff berth by winning two of those games, regardless of what the Commodores do.
Frazier has games remaining against Clairton, second place Bishop Canevin (7-3, 5-2) and Geibel. The Commodores need to catch Monessen or Canevin in hopes of reaching the playoffs.
Canevin has games with Geibel, Frazier and Serra.
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In Section 3, EF (9-5, 6-3) is tied for second place with Southmoreland (8-4, 6-3).
TJ (9-4, 5-4) is a game back and Yough (6-5, 5-5) is two games back.
EF has games remaining against TJ, Southmoreland and Belle Vernon Area (5-9, 3-7).
TJ has to play South Park (2-10, 1-9), EF and first-place West Mifflin (12-2, 7-2).
Yough has games against West Mifflin and Southmoreland.
Class AA
In Section 2, Bentworth (9-8, 6-4) is in fourth place, one game behind third-place Chartiers-Houston (8-5, 6-3) and the Lady Bearcats are two games in the loss column behind McGuffey (12-2, 8-2) and Waynesburg (8-8, 7-2).
In Section 4, Charleroi (9-3, 7-1) is in first place and has already clinched a playoff berth.
The Lady Cougars have games remaining against South Allegheny (7-3, 5-3) and Greensburg Central Catholic (1-6, 1-6). They can clinch at least a share of the section title with one win and will wrap up the crown outright with two wins or a loss by second- place Steel valley (7-3, 6-2).
Class A
In Section 2, Frazier (8-4, 8-3) is in third place, 1 1⁄2 games ahead of Serra (7-4, 6-4) and one game behind section co-leaders Jefferson-Morgan (12-2, 9-2) and Carmichaels (11-3, 9-2).
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The Phoenix Inn, in London Road, Phoenix Green, won the inaugural Best British Roast Dinner award after a mystery diner scored a meal there as the best in the UK.
The Punch Taverns pub had been in a shortlist of five, which included the club restaurant at Aston Villa Football Club.
Landlady Sisi Ryder and her husband Andrew received a certificate for winning the competition, organised by Knorr.
She said: "We are over the moon. We've been working so hard for the last three years and have always been particular about provenance, seasonality and freshness."
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Lael Brainard (born 1962) is a member of the U.S. Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, and served as the United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2001 to 2009, and served as the vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program from June 2006 to March 16, 2009. Brainard was confirmed by the United States Senate to her post on April 20, 2010.[1][2] She left her post at the U.S. Treasury in November 2013.[3]
Early life and education[edit]
Brainard grew up as a U.S. expatriate in Communist Poland and Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.[4] She is an alumna of George School, in the class of 1979, a boarding school in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Brainard received masters and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard University, where she was a National Science Foundation Fellow. She graduated with highest honors from Wesleyan University with a degree from the College of Social Studies. She is the recipient of a White House Fellowship and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, a Marshall Scholar elect, and a member of the Wesleyan University Board of Trustees, Council on Foreign Relations, and Aspen Strategy Group.[5]
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Brainard served as Associate Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where her publications made important contributions on the relationship between offshore production, trade, and jobs; the measurement of structural and cyclical unemployment in the U.S. economy; and strategic trade policy. Brainard has also worked at McKinsey & Company advising corporate clients on strategic challenges and on microenterprise in West Africa.
Clinton administration[edit]
Brainard served as Deputy National Economic Adviser and Chair of the Deputy Secretaries Committee on International Economics during the Clinton administration. As Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, she helped build a new White House organization to address global economic challenges such as the Asian financial crisis and China's accession to the World Trade Organization. As the U.S. Sherpa to the G8, she helped shape the 2000 G8 summit that, for the first time, included leaders of the poorest nations and laid the foundations for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. She had been mentioned as a likely U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration.[6]
Obama administration[edit]
On March 23, 2009, President Obama nominated Brainard to serve as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, to replace David H. McCormick, whose term had ended with the end of the Bush administration.[7][8]
On November 18, 2009, the New York Times reported that Senator Charles Grassley, the chairman and ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, had cleared the way for her Senate confirmation as Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. Reuters News Service reported on December 23, 2009, that the Senate Finance Committee had approved Brainard to become the "Treasury Department's top global diplomat, a job that would give her a key role in the bid to push China toward a flexible currency".[9]
On April 19, 2010, the Senate voted 84-10 for cloture for Brainard's nomination.[10] The Senate confirmed her in a 78-19 vote on April 20, 2010.
Brainard served as the principal policy advisor to Secretary Timothy Geithner on international economic matters at the Treasury Department. Treasury described her role as advancing the Administration's agenda of strengthening U.S. leadership in the global economy to foster growth, creating economic opportunities for Americans, and addressing transnational economic challenges, including development as well as climate change.[11] Brainard was the highest-ranking female Treasury official in U.S. history until Sarah Bloom Raskin became Deputy Secretary. [12][13] She left her post in the US Treasury in November 2013.[3] [14]
Brainard was nominated to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in January 2014.[15] She was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 61-31 on June 12, 2014, and began her term on June 16, 2014.[16][17]
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Brainard is co‑editor of Too Poor For Peace? (2007); co-editor of Offshoring White Collar Work (2006); editor of Transforming the Development Landscape: the Role of the Private Sector (2006) and Security by Other Means: Foreign Assistance, Global Poverty and American Leadership (2006); and coauthor of The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (2004).
- ^ "Lael Brainard Confirmed as Under Secretary for International Affairs". Media-newswire.com. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ a b "Brainard to leave Treasury". Politico.com. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 24, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2012.
- ^ https://philanthropyforum.org/people/lael-brainard/
- ^ Smith, Ben, "Labor Pained", Politico, November 25, 2008. Accessed November 26, 2008.
- ^ "President Obama Announces Additional Treasury Department Nominations". Whitehouse.gov. 2009-03-23. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate, 3/23/09". Whitehouse.gov. 2009-03-23. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "Senate panel OKs Lael Brainard for Treasury post". Reuters. 23 December 2009.
- ^ "U.S. Senate: Roll Call Vote". Senate.gov. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "International Affairs". Treasury.gov. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "Globalizing Reform". The American Prospect.
- ^ Lowrey, Annie, "Lael Brainard is Washington's Financial Envoy to Euro Crisis", The New York Times, 26 January 2012. Retrieved 28 Jan. 2012.
- ^ "Treasury Officials". Treasury.gov. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ Puzzanghera, Jim (10 January 2014). "Obama to nominate Stanley Fischer, 2 others to Federal Reserve seats". LA Times. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
- ^ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress - 2nd Session, Vote 189". Senate Bill Clerk. June 12, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
- ^ "FRB: Lael Brainard". Federalreserve.gov. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
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Low sugar prices are cutting into payments to farmers at American Crystal Sugar Co.
The Moorhead-based cooperative is telling its growers to expect a "massive reduction" in payments for this year's beet crop.
In a company blog, American Crystal CEO David Berg says growers will be paid just $38 per ton. Last year, Crystal's farmers were paid more than $68 per ton.
The company says the reduced payments are mainly due to lower sugar prices but also reflect much lower sugar content in this year's crop.
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They say it's a clash of wealth and cultures. That belittles the power of the game, writes Tony Stephens.
Forget all this stuff about tomorrow's rugby league grand final being a battle between Sydney's east and west. Forget the attempts to turn a football game into a socio-economic study. This is a contest between the head and the heart.
The head says that the Sydney Roosters will win. The heart says Penrith Panthers.
Heads say Roosters because of the reigning champions' experience, consistency and persistent power. The Panthers were 100/1 after losing their first two matches; teams don't go from cellar-dwellers to champions in one season.
Hearts say Panthers because Australians love underdogs and a Panthers victory would be something of a fairytale - even if league followers don't believe in fairies.
A newspaper called it a match between the Silvertails and the Fairytales, thus introducing another reason for hearts to choose Panthers.
The Manly team was once called the Silvertails because the then powerful club spent so much money buying the best players from other clubs. Everyone hated Manly, except Manly's modest band of partisans. Now Manly has fallen upon hard times and hardly anyone hates them. If the Roosters become widely known as the Silvertails, all league hearts, other than Rooster hearts, will turn against them.
Hearts choose Panthers because the Roosters have powerful people such as Nick Politis and the Packers as backers. They took one of the world's best players, Brad Fittler, from Penrith. Other Penrith people like Phil Gould, John Cartwright and Ned Catic headed east.
The Panthers picked up a few discards from other clubs and developed their own youngsters, often sons of people who relocated to the Penrith area and switched their allegiance from old city football clubs to the Panthers.
Believing, like the Jesuits, that to capture a child's belief was to guarantee that person's support through life, the Panthers chief executive, Shane Richardson, has promoted the game in primary schools.
Bob Stewart, associate professor in Victoria University's department of human movement, recreation and performance, divides spectators into broad groups: Aficionados, who are loyal to the game rather than any team and enjoy highly skilful matches. Partisans, loyal to one team, who won't mind if the full-time siren sounds early if their team is leading. They attend matches as part of an urban tribe, with a commitment that is akin to religious faith. Theatregoers, who consider football a source of entertainment, like cinemas and zoos. Champ followers, who support a fashionable team or individual and may switch from season to season.
Of about 80,000 spectators expected for tomorrow night's game, fewer than half will be active partisans.
The Panthers attracted an average home crowd of 17,771 during the season; the Roosters 16,097.
Passive partisans will join the huge television audience.
None will care about a struggle between east and west.
Many will know that only Luke Ricketson and Ryan Cross of the Roosters are locals anyhow, and they're more likely to drink beer than cafe latte.
A few with history in their hearts might point out that the Roosters of the east couldn't produce anything in Sydney's early days and that the starving colony was saved by farmers along the rich Nepean River flats, where Penrith is today.
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Muslims who believe in the Messiah, Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadiani (as)
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The San Diego Associated Press reported that Banks sent nearly 26 percent more default notices to California homeowners in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, stepping up actions against those with delinquent loans in what may herald a new wave of foreclosures, a real estate information service reported Tuesday.
There were 71,275 first-time notices of default issued in the California, the nation's most populous state, in July, August and September, DataQuick reported. By comparison, there were 56,633 default notices issued in the second quarter of the fiscal year, a three-year low. "Obviously, some lenders and loan servicers have begun to plow through their backlogs of delinquent loans more aggressively," DataQuick President John Walsh said in a statement.
Most of the mortgages, home equity loans and lines of credit going into default are from 2005 to 2007, La Jolla-based DataQuick said.
Foreclosures weigh down home values and create uncertainty among would-be homebuyers who fret over prospects that prices may further decline as more foreclosures hit the market. Default notices were filed against California homeowners who, using median figures, owed $19,198 on a primary mortgage of $331,333 and were eight months behind on payments, DataQuick said. The median amount borrowers owed at the time the default notice was filed rose about 17 percent from the previous quarter and 27 percent from a year earlier. "The gains likely stem from some lenders working faster last quarter to get caught up on their backlogs of long-delinquent loans," a DataQuick statement said. On home equity loans and lines of credit in default, borrowers owed a median $4,576 on a median $70,055 credit line. The foreclosure process can take nine months or more to complete.
Foreclosure activity began to slow nationwide last year after allegations that lenders were using abusive practices such as "robo-signing," or approving foreclosure paperwork without actually reading it. The number of default notices in the third quarter of 2011 was down 14.4 percent from the third quarter of 2010 -- before most of the delays began. Major banks and attorneys general in all 50 states have been working on a settlement of the allegations, but California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced last month that she would not agree to a settlement. Harris said the deal was inadequate in a state where more than 2.2 million residents owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. Poorer neighborhoods had more defaults than richer ones in the third quarter. Areas where the median sale price of a home was below $200,000 had 11 defaults notices filed per 1,000 homes. That compared with 2.8 filings per 1,000 in areas with median prices above $800,000. Statewide, there were 8.1 notices of default filed per 1,000 homes.
In today's market, the real remorse is often felt by sellers who have to do a short sale. They feel stupid for having made a bad investment, ashamed about not being able to pay off a debt they agreed to repay, and embarrassed that have to share this "dirty laundry" with a Realtor, who is there to help them. They are often very depressed about the damage to their future caused by a loss of equity. It can be demoralizing. Now, combine that with some buyers who are trying to get a "steal" and putting in ridiculously low offers, and we've got a challenging situation all around. Helping sellers understand that they're in the same boat as many other Americans, many of whom are quite intelligent and wealthy helps, as does the fact that since the market is down, they can hopefully soon buy low to compensate for having to sell low.
Trust me, realtors are not judging you. Many of us have gone through the same thing and have friends and relatives who have also. It's often the inability to accept current realities that keep people from moving forward in these situations. If Realtors can help you through the issues, you can make some serious progress. As real estate practitioners, we sometimes forget what it's like to walk into this incredibly complex world of buying and selling with little or no knowledge of how the whole thing works. We sometimes forget that there are people behind the doors of those houses and more is going on in their lives and in their minds than just this transaction. We deal with the people, not the house, and with the whole person, not just the issues surrounding the transaction.
When we can put ourselves in your shoes, imagine what you may be dealing with, and have compassion for what you're going through, it's then that we are most effective. Realtors strive to deal with the whole person and are willing to counsel and help, when possible with your situation. Whether you are buying or need to sell, call a local Realtor and get the assistance that you need. Having the banks work through these properties is actually a good thing and will help us get back to a normal housing market some day and housing tends to lead the economy.
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