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Manatee County Administrator Ed Hunzeker today put forth a $497 million net budget for next year, which is $33.7 million less than this year's budget due to significant declines in revenue.
"As in years past, we are continuing to downsize government," Hunzeker told Manatee County commissioners. "We'll probably continue to do so for the next few years."
Declining property values have resulted in a $16 million reduction in property tax revenues. As a direct effect, nearly every taxpayer-funded program and activity will see belt tightening.
The county was able to avoid large-scale workforce and service reductions by employing reserves and by spreading cuts. Hunzeker said the commission's past decisions to save money are helping "immensely" in avoiding significant service reductions to the community.
Manatee's constitutional officers, including the Manatee County sheriff, worked with the county reducing their budgets by about 5% next year. A total of about 100 positions have been eliminated, including 82 positions from the county administrator's budget and about 20 from constitutional officers' budgets.
The county administrator recommended budget reductions based on priorities and spread throughout county-funded programs and services. The recommendations do not stretch any program to a point at which it could not continue.
It is the second year of Hunzeker's zero-based budgeting plan whereby each Manatee County service and program was broken down into a series of decision units. Top priorities are funded first, and greater levels of service are approved if funding is available.
The Manatee Board of County Commissioners will address the finer details of the budget during a series of workshops in June. The public will have its best chance to weigh in on the budget during a public hearing scheduled for 6 p.m., June 18.
The County Administrator's 2009-10 budget message can be found at www.mymanatee.org.
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The Medical School has eight Mothers' Rooms where breastfeeding mothers can go to feed their babies or pump breast milk. The rooms are located in the following places:
University Campus: S6-100A and S6-100B - both locations are equipped with a hospital grade Medela pump; mothers must bring their own accessories.
South Street Campus: Two private spaces located on the second floor of building 1-SHR 1-2, both spaces are equipped with a hospital grade Medela pump; mothers must bring their own accessories.
Worcester State Hospital: BB2-204, contact Christine Bibeault, x62648
Biotech IV: B4-314C, Contact Denise Maclachlan, x68773 to schedule a time. This location is equipped with a hospital grade Medela pump; mothers must bring their own accessories.
Schrafft Building, Boston: Office 3.635- To Schedule a time, call x56200 or 617-886-8200
MBL, Mattapan II Building: Room 2034
For more information about the Mothers' Rooms click here.
The Center for Adoption Research provides individualized assistance and information to employees and their partners. Adoption consultants from The Center will provide confidential information that will enable employees to approach the adoption process with an understanding of choices and steps involved. To initiate a consultation, call The Center for Adoption Research at 508-856-5397.
UMMS provides financial assistance of $1,000 on a per child, per family basis for certain IRS qualified adoption expenses. Adoption Assistance is available for non-unit employees who are benefit eligible. Qualified expenses include attorney fees, court costs, adoption fees and traveling expenses. To apply for the reimbursement, click here (for UMass Medical School internal use only).
The Center for Adoption Research was established in 1996. Their mission is to conduct research on a broad scope of issues related to adoption and foster care in MA. Their ultimate objective is to place every child in a caring and permanent home. As UMMS employees, we are fortunate to have access to the resources that the Center for Adoption Research offers. In addition to providing an adoption consultation service for employees they have tip sheets and informational resources available here.
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Bruises, scars and crazy injuries ..
what's yours .. post pictures and write stories ..
Once i decided it would be fun to ride down a really steep slope on a bike far to big for me (couldnt touch the ground), the wheel/handlebar lining was off, and the brakes didnt work. Figure the rest out yourself. p.s. Lamp-posts can jump.
This is a kinda gross .. but this is what happens when a Saw crosses the top of your hand ...
Will never touch a saw again ..
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ewwwww that white stuffOriginally Posted by elzoan To view the link you have to Register
dont put in google 'paper shredded hand'
Oh fudge!! Umm where do I begin...?
Injured right calf, I can easily limp if I'm not careful.
Left should dislocates slightly but painfully!!
Spinal disc in my neck poped like a knuckle, umm that a weird pain
Fell off my skate board years ago, but I poped my coxis like a knuckle
Caserol burn on my right thumb, looks nasty, I need plastic surgery for that and the scare on my left pinky knuckle I got the last time I seen the stanley cup.
And then, Oh, from elementary school, I thought my self to jump kick, but there's something with my left thigh joint since grad 5 or 6...right?!
Umm...There's a few scars, small ones on my face...
That's about it I think, I got these knew 90mm roller blades just a few weeks ago, I can't wait to bail on the pavement!!
I put it in google.Originally Posted by Elizayne To view the link you have to Register
When I was younger my cousin and I thought it would be fun to sword fight with some plastic tent poles we had for some kid's tent set thingy. Anyway, he ended up whacking me right in the mouth with one and split my lip open. Blood everywhere. I went to the hospital and we had to wait for the plastic surgeon because obviously having a huge scar on my lip was not ideal. I was put under local anasthesia so I remember the whole thing; I got 15 stitches. That sucked.
I also have a fairly large scar on my leg from when I was younger and they took a biopsy of my muscle because I was pretty sick as a kid and they couldn't figure out what was wrong.
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I've had lots of injuries and scars... most of the scars go away after a few months, only few have lasted.
There's a scar on my left eyebrow, the cut occured when I was 2-3 years old and it had to stitched... that scar is pretty clearly visible... There's a cut on my right knee which I got when I walked on my mother's glass bangles
And once my sister took a sharp blade and made a "Y" on my arm and that scar lasted a few years, but it isn't there now
And once I tried to hold a kitten, but that bastard dug his claws into my wrist
Most of the painful injuried I've had have been due to playing football. There's this recurring knee injury I have... every time I play for a week, the knee gets injured for a month. At times rash challenges have ended up in very bad injuries.
Once when I was 8 yrs old and the goalkeeping, I got a hit to the face from point blank range Atleast I blocked the shot
And once I asked for a pass from my teammate and he took a shot instead and it hit me where it pains the most I was down for about 10 minutes
And I got into a fight last month and injured my shoulder
My father had a cauliflower ear because he was into wrestling when young. I wish i could have one of those
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My biggest scar is on the right hand of my stomach! I was playing on some rocks when I was on holiday in France years ago, and I fell right into this sharp gap between two rocks, I have 4 big scars down the side of my stomach!
Also got one on my knee from when I spit my knee open (ouch!).
And I've got tons of random ones on my body from when I had chicken pox (which I didn't get till I was 15!!!).
I've tons of scars on my knees and legs cause I used to fall down a lot from bikes..etc.
I remember once playing with a girl and we were jumping a thingy down which was like 1 meter above the ground. All of the sudden she pushed me from behind and I broke my arm :/ the bone was broken into two parts.. the mother and child ran away and my father was soo upset :P .. well needed an operation.. had 2 metal sticks in my arms for 6 months or maybe more and couldn't do anything with my arm ><wasn't great..then needed a 2nd operation to remove these metal sticks ><..
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Shiseido has developed a method to assess the skin permeation of cosmetic ingredients using a novel spectrometry technology. The method involves tape stripping, acquiring two-dimensional data on the sampled area using spectrometry technology and converting that data to a clear image that shows permeation.
This achievement improves simple, quantitative and clear visualization of the state of permeation of active ingredients into the stratum corneum (SC) across cross-sectional surfaces compared with existing methods. Up until now, the most common method of visualizing the permeation state has been to permeate active ingredients on a part of the skin which can be surgically removed and observe cross sections using a fluorescence microscope. In recent years, methods such as using a confocal laser microscope to measure active ingredients on living subjects have been developed. However, all of those devices are cumbersome and time-consuming to operate and are only able to obtain unclear visual images. Furthermore,these devices are able to target only ingredients that emit fluorescence has posed a problem.
Therefore, Shiseido started developing an analysis method for consumers to visually understand the permeation state of active ingredients and as a means for Shiseido to advance research related to the permeation of active ingredients by enabling simple, quantitative and clear visual display including the depth direction of the state of permeation regarding cosmetic ingredients or skin constituents.
The first step in the process is to take multiple 2 cm2 samples of the stratum corneum (SC) where the ingredient has been applied using special adhesive tape, which is well-known as "tape-stripping." Then two-dimensional distribution data of target ingredients of each sampled SC is acquired utilizing the newly developed Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Mass Spectrometry Imaging (DESI-MSI) method, which detects target ingredients according to their molecular weights. DESI-MSI is conducted by spraying positive or negative electrically charged liquid droplets in a fine mist on the surface of the sample under atmospheric pressure, simultaneously extracting and ionizing substances from near the surface of the sample and detecting target molecules after inserting into a high-vacuum mass spectrometer. Two-dimensional quantitative distribution (flat surface) data is obtained by moving the spray position at a constant speed on the flat surface, whereby the data can be visualized and displayed as an image. A quantitative and clear visual display in terms of depth direction is obtained using multiple two-dimensional distribution data collected via DESI-MSI using a patent-pending data processing method. However, this cross-sectional visual display developed at this time provides approximated images via data processing that combines planar images.
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School librarian organises mass lobby at Westminster
4:30pm Tuesday 30th October 2012 in News By Emily Roberts, Chief Reporter
A SCHOOL librarian from Basingstoke has organised a mass lobby at Westminster.
Barbara Band, a mother-of-two, who works at The Emmbrook School, in Berkshire, will join other librarians, authors, teachers, parents and students from across the country at a march in support of school libraries.
The protest will call on the Government to make sure that every child has equal access to the knowledge and information that a good school library provides.
Those taking part in the demonstration believe that every school should have a library and professional staff to help children find information, including online, so they understand how to assess its accuracy.
There are fears that as the Government hands more power to schools, including tough budget decisions, some headteachers could cut school libraries, as it is not compulsory for secondary schools in England and Wales to have one.
The protest comes as research from the National Literacy Trust reveals that one in six adults in the UK has a literacy level below that expected of an 11-year-old.
Mrs Band, 56, from Elvetham Rise, Chineham, said: "I'm tremendously lucky to work in a school that fully supports their library and to have experienced first-hand how exposure to a wide range of reading resources can inspire students and encourage them to become readers.
"This mass lobby demands that all children should have this opportunity and that reading for pleasure should not be left to chance. It should be embedded and sustained in the school ethos."
Children's author Alan Gibbons is supporting the lobby.
He said: "School libraries are the custodians of information and research, access to literacy and literature. They are the ambassadors of dreams and inspiration. We need them more than ever."
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Elizabeth Amidon, English professor at Western Michigan University, guides a world tour of authors and books that capture what's going on in other parts of the globe, or stories told by "foreign" voices. Washington Square Branch Library, April 5, 2011. A Reading Together 2011 event.
Fr. Kenneth Schmidt, Sharon Froom and Olga Bonfiglio talk about their varied experiences in Rwanda, the ongoing efforts to heal after the genocide and other traumas, and their personal reflections. Oshtemo Branch Library, Monday, April 4, 2011. A Reading Together 2011 event.
Gail Griffin, author and professor at Kalamazoo College; Katherine Joslin, author and professor of English, Western Michigan University; and Kathy Jennings, journalist, writer, and editor, Second Wave Media, IMG Publications, discuss creative nonfiction, bringing together literary memoir and biography, the personal essay and literary journalism, Thursday, March 31, 2011, Portage District Library. A Reading Together 2011 event.


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Few getaways enable you to escape like a trip to Napa and Sonoma in California. Easily accessible from San Francisco, the area celebrates the good life with superb wineries and wine, trendy restaurants, intimate resorts, and pampering spas. Gentle hills and vineyard-laced farmland make Napa and Sonoma perfect for back-road driving or cycling—or a picnic. Along with famous chefs and chic shops, there's plenty of small-town appeal in towns such as St. Helena, Yountville, Sonoma, and Healdsburg. Time may seem to stand still in the iconic countryside, but the luxury and sophistication here are thoroughly modern.
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The modern, minimalist layout of Artesa blends harmoniously with the surrounding landscape, yet this Napa winery makes a vivid impression with... Read more
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Here's your chance for your figs to be involved in the Kingdom of Ikros.
While I cannot give any of your figs speaking roles, or even identify them by name, your fig can have a walk-on part in one of the next two chapters of Ikros:Chaos Skies. These two chapters involve my Halcyon 2 MOC, so large crowds of people will be good to have.
Obviously if 300 people give me a sig-fig, I can't use them all, that'd just be too many.
So here are the rules:
First, your sig-fig must be castle oriented. That means no Space figs or the like. This should go without saying, but some people need clarification.
Second, do not send me your fig. Just reply with a picture of him/her so that I might build it. I don't know when I'll be able to get the new chapters finished, so if you were to send me your fig, you might not see it again for a year (God I hope it doesnt take me that long).
Third, your sig-fig cannot have modified LEGO parts. It's not that I'm against modifying parts per se, but I have to be able to build the figs, remember that. Stickers are ok, but if you HAVE to have stickers, I'll need the stickers, too.
Fourth, your sig-fig cannot have overly rare parts. I mean, I'm not Jojo
Fifthly, if two sig-figs look nearly identical, the one posted first will be used. If a sig-fig looks nearly identical to one of my characters, that sig-fig cannot be included.
I'm hoping by the time I'm ready to do chapter 9 (the second Halcyon Chapter) Henry will have come into my hands. It'd be neat to include him.
I make no guarantee that you sig-fig will make the cut. If yours doesn't, it doesn't mean I have a grudge against you, it just means I either ran out of figs or some other reason popped up.
So, reply to this thread with a picture of your sig-fig and maybe something about him/her that would give me an idea as to what your fig would be doing in my city (baking, fighting, stealing, just passing through, etc.).
Unless, of course, you don't want to have your sig-fig in the story, in which case, just forget you read this post.


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She did it. She did it well, revisiting it again and again is a bore.
as usual for old "Miss Ann", very 1970′s & oh-so-over….
Didn't Steven Klien do Gaga's Alejandro as well? These two sort of look and feel the same.
@tardis: As well as Lady Gaga's commercial for "Fame", which also kinda looks like this. Basically he's a one trick pony aesthetics wise.
Very arty… and not necessarily in a bad way.
I don't know why the ball has to be in Gaga's corner. Are they competing? They are on the same side of the issue. Stylistically and in language and tone it's very reminiscent of Gaga's work. I don't know why Madonna has an issue with Gaga except that she's apparently been listening to the trolls.
OK. GRANDMADONNA, Time for you to go to the old folks home. It's sad when the elderly think thyey can wear dominatrix gear. If I wasn't gay before, seeing her saggy, pointy bra just turned me.
"Mom! Grandma's drunk again!"
Why is she ranting about everything everyone already knows its going on? What so secret about this? What is new?
She is just promoting herself as usual.
'This film is dedicated to those have been persecuted,…
…or their sexual preferences'
Sweetie, it's orientation, not preference. Preference would indicate I chose to be gay and could switch teams at will.
Get it right, won't you?
@Rabbit: ouch. and THANK YOU.
also… it's 'economics' not 'eeeconomics.'
that being said… it was fun, visually stunning and tightly executed. captivating and very… stark. the first major male dancer is phenomenal – his movements are genius. i think the naked male dancer was good as well, but out of place and unnecessary (unless he represented 'hope' or something… but it would have probably worked better as a naked woman).
also i think the prose could have been tighter and more definitive (less simile references). but was captivating and interesting in a post-apocalyptic French wild west sort of way.
@Jackhoffsky: Webster's, the OED, most dictionaries show both pronunciations: [ek-uh-nom-iks, ee-kuh-].
Linguistic fascism is ugly.
It is a shame that the so-called "supporters" of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (stage name, Lady GaGa) feel that they have to criticize and disrespect Madonna in order to make Miss Germanotta look better. It doesn't make her look better, but just shows how immature and mean-spirited her fan base is. Let's just hope that her "fans" don't ruin her career.
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If you follow biotechnology at all, you probably know that there is red biotech for medical applications (example: using bacteria to produce drugs); white biotech for industrial applications (example: using microbes instead of chemicals); and green biotech for agriculture (example: using genetically modified crops.)
So it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a term for using biotechnology to come up with new fuel sources. "Black biotech" is the phrase Richard Gallagher at The Scientist has coined to describe the rush going on in the life sciences to enlist microbes in a bid to prolong the age of oil in the latest issue. But it really comes down to figuring out what's up down in those subsurface oil formations.
After all, we barely know the mix of extremophiles thriving in the heat and pressure of the deep Earth. The sub-surface is likely oozing with microbial life, research has shown, and it's quite possible those critters can help us produce more energy—whether by converting unrecoverable oil to recoverable methane as they do naturally anyway or by becoming the oil feedstock of the future, like algae turned to jet fuel.
Some scientists are even trying to make entirely new microbes that will actually make gasoline or other fuels—synthetic biology for synthetic fuels. That may prove even more difficult than figuring out what's going on miles beneath the ground we walk on, but there's no question that microorganisms have a lot to teach us when it comes to using energy.
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Great, let's invest in producing more oil and more co2.
Apparently we need to be taught how to sustain our very existence.
Black biotech gives me associations to bio weapons, evil and black stuff!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe total carbon content on our planet is almost constant. Microbes can take up CO2 and convert it to a more complex molecule using energy. When this molecule decomposes we get back part of the energy that went to create it. The time cycle is short, new CO2 converts to a macro molecule and then back to CO2.
Burning coal on the other hand is very damaging, coal takes extremely long periods of time (based on our lifespan) to form, it is also surface active and holds on to gasses as well as metals like mercury and lead. When you burn coal you are releasing old CO2, you are also releasing toxic metals. Most of the mercury contamination of our oceans comes from burning coal.
Don't discriminate on colour, appearance or other physical factors - Think.
Yes, that's right. Think. Remember that our planet has finite resources and our environment has a finite ability to render our pollution and waste harmless (to ourselves and other species). It is pointless to "prolong the age of oil" unless the aim is to provide a bridge to a sustainable society that doesn't consume resources faster than they can be renewed (renewable or non-renewable). I don't think many people are thinking of such a bridge but rather are hoping for some magic elixir that can keep things going the way they'd like until it is some other generation's problem, or downfall.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisOK, on sustainability, let's be honest. Yes, our resources are finite. Which means we can't reproduce uncontrollably forever and expect to stay on this rock. But most people, yourself included, tend to confuse the finite resources with the idea that we're going to run out soon. This planet has been here for several billion years. Life has been on this planet "using" its resources for most of that time. Yet today, I would argue that there are more resources available on this planet than there have been at any point in its history. Now how could that be?
Because when we talk about resources we are really talking about resources that are useful for us as we are today. A few billion years ago, CO2 was a very valuable resource for the life that was here. So were many other things that we see as being mostly useless. As we roll into the future, the types of resources will no doubt change, but the resources themselves will remain here as long as we don't eject them into space. The ultimate question is how to we use those resources to our benefit? How do we get at the vast resevoirs of energy that exist in every piece of trash and every bit of carbon we release?
There is no question of resources. It's really a question of "natural" resouces. I placed that in quotes because I have to wonder how protecting species from extinction is natural.... Anyways that's a different topic. What we need to do is find better unnatural ways to take advantage of our resources. For example, electricity is natural as lightning. But it is also virtually useless. Controlled in a way that is unnatural, look what can be done with it! Oil is another example. Naturally it's good for torches, that's about it. But refined amazing things can be done. We only recently learned to tap into that. Until a hundred years ago, oil was no more useful than it has been for thousands of years.
But here's the question.....can something better be made? Something more useful? Can we get into the processes that created this natural product and create something even more amazing? Renewable even? Imagine a genetically engineered plant that growsnextremely fast in sunlight with very little water, can thrive in a desert, removes LOTS of carbon from the atmosphere, and could be easily converted by a genetically engineered microbe to make a fuel that has more potential energy and produces less carbon than gasoline. THAT is what we should be working on. And this is a step in that direction....(more to follow. I am at the maximum number of characters)
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Cheap abundant energy is the key to everything. With it, other things become more practical like converting garbage into energy and raw materials, recycling, and other such things where the energy cost is the main reason it is not done. Because of this, we need to find new and better ways to store and extract energy from our surroundings. There is PLENTY to be had. We just need to get to it. Once that is done, all things are possible.
One other point I wanted to address is this crap about atmospheric carbon and global warming.
Look, maybe we are warming the planet. Maybe we aren't. But no one bothers to ask..is this a bad thing? It is downright crazy to assume that this particular momoent in all of world history, contains the optimal world temperature for the survival of our species. In fact, human history shows otherwise. In every period of warming in the past - up to 4 degrees at times - our species has flourished. In every period if temperature decline we have suffered and perished. The amount of land and resources we can't touch because it is covered in ice is simply amazing. The amount of freshwater tied up in glaciers is just astounding. It may be bad for some animals, but it is a benefit to others....including us. Attempting to maintain the status quo simply for the fear of change is just silliness.
Lots of scientists did ask if global warming was bad, and they generally discovered that Yes, it is bad. In fact, it is so clearly bad that they don't bother asking any more. It is a settled fact. The only people who question it are shills for the petroleum industry, assorted kooks, or dupes of evangelical leaders.
But more importantly, "prolonging the age of oil" might be a good thing if that oil isn't derived from fossil fuels. Petrofuels produced using bio-matter (like corn-based ethanol) are carbon neutral, and don't contribute (as much) to global warming. Oil created by bacteria would have the same benefits.
No, kfreels, I don't confuse limits with running out soon. But whenever we hit a limit (i.e. peak of production or scarcity relative to demand) in one critical resource we will hit problems. Running out may take decades or centuries but running out isn't when the problems start. Many people, including yourself, seem to thing that is exactly when the problems start.
You also confuse attempts at maintaining biodiversity (a good thing for all species) with interfering with nature (ignoring our other interferences with nature for the last few centuries). Add to that the assumption that any resource diverted for human use can only be good and we see why we are headed for certain catastrophe.
People do ask if global warming is a bad thing. The problem is that we act as though it isn't and thus are likely to accelerate it. Get your greatgrandkids to ask the question in 90 years. Do you not think it is better for us and future generations to live within our planetary means? And answer that we don't know what the future holds would be a cop out.
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The great northwest of the U.S. is known for its natural beauty. It's also a high-tech region with a highly educated public – not exactly the kind of place one would expect to fall for the anti-science rhetoric of the anti-vaccine movement.
But it has. The anti-vaxxers have convinced a frighteningly high number of parents in Washington State to withhold vaccines from their children. A story in The Seattle Times last year reported that
"Washington [state] parents are choosing not to vaccinate their kindergartners at a rate higher than anywhere else in the country."
This despite the fact that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (formed by the founder of Microsoft Microsoft, which is headquartered in Seattle) is one of the world's leading sponsors of vaccine research.
When the vaccination rates drop, everyone becomes more vulnerable to infectious diseases. When more than 90% of the population is vaccinated, we have "herd immunity" – this means the disease can't spread because there aren't enough susceptible people in the community. So the high rate of vaccine refusal in Washington makes it easier for whooping cough (and other diseases) to spread.
The media has been complicit in spreading some of the anti-vaccine misinformation. Sometimes it comes straight from the media itself, such as the CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has repeatedly and persistently reported on the purported link between vaccines and autism long after such a link was widely discredited.* Other times it comes from talk shows, magazines, or even airline advertisements that provide a platform for anti-vax celebrity doctors such as Jay Gordon (who gained fame as Jenny McCarthy's son's doctor) and "Dr. Bob" Sears, who has published his own "alternative" vaccine schedule in a book filled with anti-vaccine nonsense. These characters continue to claim, at every chance they get, that vaccines cause autism (as Gordon has said, repeatedly), or that they cause other harms, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. They use their medical degrees and their faux concern "for the children" to frighten parents into keeping their kids unvaccinated.
And now we learn that the U.S. is in the midst of the worst whooping cough epidemic in 70 years. One of the most hard-hit states is Washington, which the CDC just announced (on 20 July) has suffered 2,520 cases so far this year, a 1300% increase over last year. This is the highest number of cases reported in Washington since 1942. This plot of the number of cases this year compared to last year shows the dramatic rise in infections:
Making things worse, it seems, is an increase in cases among children aged 13-14. Children get a booster shot at age 11-12, but the new outbreak indicates that the effectiveness of the booster may not last very long. The dramatic increase in whooping cough this year also suggests that the bacterium that causes it, Bordetella pertussis, is mutating to make the vaccine less effective. Nevertheless, the CDC emphasizes:
"Vaccination continues to be the single most effective strategy to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by pertussis. Vaccination of pregnant women and contacts of infants is recommended to protect infants too young to be vaccinated."
This good advice is seriously undermined when misinformed doctors such as "Dr. Bob" Sears directly advise pregnant women not to get the whooping cough vaccine, as he did in the Huffington Post. (Hint: it's a good rule to be very skeptical of celebrity doctors who go by their first name.)
I should also point out that whooping cough is a national problem, not just Washington State's. The U.S. has had over 17,000 cases this year, putting it on track for the worst year since 1959. The highest rate of infection in the nation is in Wisconsin (which has also been hit hard by anti-vaccine effects), followed by Washington and Montana. 10 deaths have been reported, mostly in infants who were too young to be vaccinated. For all this, we can thank the anti-vaccination movement.
*Note: Following a complaint from Sharyl Attkinson, this story has been updated to clarify my view of her vaccine-related reporting.
W&N, this is getting redundant. You only provided a portion of Fisher's quote, conveniently leaving out the last half of the sentence, apparently, in attempt to create a scenario to support your false claim that she is misrepresenting the court's finding. Her entire quote reads, "On February 22, 2011 the U.S. Supreme Court shielded drug companies from all liability for harm caused by vaccines mandated by government when companies could have made a safer vaccine. 1 " and notice the citation to the court ruling in this quote. http://tinyurl.com/czjhdyh
The supreme court's opinion is clear and Fisher's statements are completely in line with the media reports as to what the ruling was. Your continuance in trying to twist the ruling and NVIC's position on the ruling to create a so-called "lie" on NIVIC's part is a futile effort because the facts don't support your case. Any reasonable person can read the media reports, the ruling and Fisher's commentary and decide for themselves if it all lines up.
As to your list of ridiculous assertions and accusations, they are so unreasonable and without merit that they do not deserve a response but since you insist we will say this: NVIC has never engaged in threatening anyone and would never condone such behavior and we stand by the accuracy and truthfulness of all the information on our website.
W&N, you have been very aggressive over the last three days, in attempting to discredit NVIC and many of the individuals who have commented to this article. Your tone is very sarcastic and demeaning and most of your comments include accusations with little or no citations to support your claims or are outright misleading. When NVIC posts a comment we are clear as to the fact that it is NVIC commenting, yet you use a pseudonym. In the spirit of transparency and given the fact that you seem to have some vested interest in this debate why, not drop the cover and tell us all who you are?
At NVIC, we give consumers information that is not readily available to them so that they can understand risk and benefit as upheld by the informed consent ethic. We are not anti-vaccine and support educated decision making. We do not support a one-size fits all agenda or forced vaccination – that is different from being anti-vaccine. We are not responsible for the fact that vaccine dangers remain largely unquantified and unresearched, but we will never stop asking for that – in accordance with the federal law. We will never allow those facts and the faces of the injured to be ignored.
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National Vaccine Information Center – Your Health, Your Freedom, Your Choice
Mr. Salzberg, your comment consists of pure speculation and generalities, while others are posting statistics.
And NVICFactChecker posted quotes from the Wall Street Journal and the Seattle Times, with concrete info and even a quote from the CDC, and your response was just to hurl slurs at NVIC. That's baloney, not rational argument.
No Twyla,
As 9 pages of comments here demonstrate, the anti-vaccs simply are not up to the intellectual challenge of clicking on a hyperlink…..even when the exact words are pointed out to them….much less working through the words or the numbers….
Nvic FactCheck ,
You continue to be unconstrained by facts.
1. Ms Fisher's words are posted above and she was very clear using phrases such as:
"….shielded drug companies from all liability…"
"…there is no civil liability…." etc, etc…
You have grossly misrepresented the basic English meaning of Ms Fisher's words, apparently in an attempt to obfuscate the fact that once again Ms Fisher claims are unquestionably false.
2. You have also grossly misrepresented my words. I have asked for one example where you or where NVIC have condemned the anti-vacc use of death-threats on scientists and/or their children. You have not provided one example and you continue to choose not to condemn these actions.
The reflects entirely upon you.
3. Fact is that NVIC is a misinformation organization. You choose to refuse to take sensible actions like getting your science from qualified scientists.
I think this is because you know that such scientists will tell you that NVIC's positions are utter BS. "VIC" being the example above where NVIC simply is not truthful.
"We do not support a one-size fits all…"
Here is the vaccine schedule:
It is not one-size fits all. NVIC is too clueless to even read the vaccine schedule correctly.
NVIC is:
A person has to make a willful choose not to look at the facts to pretend otherwise.
W&N, States mandate vaccines for all children in order to access public education. The mandated schedule is the same for all children i.e. one-size-fits-all. NVIC is opposed to vaccine mandates. We believe in the right to informed consent and choice in all medical decision making.
We have provided through answers with many citations and references in this comment string. At this point let the reader decide who seems most credible and who has been most thorough in providing facts with citations and references. We have been transparent yet you still attempt to act as some voice of authority while hiding behind a pseudonym.
It is wise of you to retreat.
Meanwhile most Forbes readers will have noticed:
" States mandate vaccines for all children in order to access public education. The mandated schedule is the same for all children i.e. one-size-fits-all."
You argue by assertion. Let's check the facts….
Here is the Virginia public school mandates:
Look at that!
" Vaccines must be administered in accordance with the harmonized schedule of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Academy of Pediatrics, and American Academy of Family Physicians and must be administered within spacing and age requirements."
And anyone that follows the link at the Virginia site will find the harmonized schedule that has already posted…..where different vaccines are recommended to kids with different risk factors.
Fact is that NVIC is a stranger to the truth….literally too clueless to correctly read the mandated vaccine schedule.
"We have been transparent yet you still attempt to act as some voice of authority while hiding behind a pseudonym"
Dear person posting with a pseudonym, thanks for the irony.
If your intent was to publically humiliate yourself, you are succeeding admirably.
Meanwhile, anyone with the tiniest spark of reason can't help by figure out that since anyone can post here under any handle…that there is no way of knowing who is really posting regardless as to what handle they use.
Your criticism isn't just absurd, but it is predicated on having a remarkable inability to think clearly.
Maybe you should find some other hobby more inline with your talents…you might enjoy basket-weaving…
"We have been transparent yet you still attempt to act as some voice of authority while hiding behind a pseudonym"
Dear person posting with a pseudonym, thanks for the irony.
If your intent was to publically humiliate yourself, you are succeeding admirably.
Meanwhile, anyone with the tiniest spark of reason can't help but figure out that since anyone can post here under any handle…that there is no way of knowing who is really posting regardless as to what handle they use.
Your criticism isn't just absurd, but it is predicated on having a remarkable inability to think clearly.
Maybe you should find some other hobby more inline with your talents…you might enjoy basket-weaving…
NVIC FactCheck is not a pseudonym, NVIC FactCheck is NVIC. Who are you and who do you represent?
Sarah Miller 1 month ago
"Dr Salzberg, I'm not a scientist but your statement above "The vast majority of people are vaccinated, but the DTaP vaccine is not always effective, so vaccinated people end up comprising the bulk of cases." makes no sense in your argument whatsoever!"
Sarah, if you were a scientist, then Dr. Salaberg's statement would make sense. I'll try to break it down for you.
Let's say you have a population of 1 million people, and 95% received a vaccine for pertussis. That makes 50,000 who have no immunity because they have not vaccinated.
Of the 950,000 who have received the vaccine, ten percent remain unimmunized because the vaccine didn't work for them. So we have:
Unvacxed: 50,000
Vaxed but not immune: 95,000
If an unimmunized person has a 20% chance of contracting the disease, then that means there will be 10,000 unvaccinated persons who contract pertussis, and 19,000 vaccinated.
And now we come to the part where you ignore the evidence I have provided and change the subject.


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Hey y'all! I'm really psyched to finally be announcing this. Come visit our new facebook page (yes, our new name is Tijuana Sweetheart) and add us on twitter (TJSweetheart). We really need your support after all the drama!
For Immediate Release
January 27, 2010 [email protected]
All-girl Punk Band Tijuana Sweetheart
(Formerly Known as VAGIANT) to Appear in
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"A rose by any other name would smell as drunk."- RockBand.com forums
Due to a legal dispute, the truculent, wayward girls of the band formerly known as VAGIANT (Boston) have changed their name to Tijuana Sweetheart.
After hundreds of often off-beat band name suggestions from fans, the band selected Tijuana Sweetheart a name which comes from a ****tail of the girls invention (and from the bands unique slang term for a prostitute).
The name change goes into effect immediately. Merchandise with the bands former name will continue to be available at the bands forthcoming website, www.TijuanaSweetheart.com, for a limited time at a discounted rate. For comment on the name change, please contact the bands formidable, motorcycle outlaw lawyer, John Taxiarchis, at [email protected].
Three tracks from Tijuana Sweethearts album Trash Candy will appear on Rock Band Network: No Mercy, Sticks & Stones, and Trash Candy. The songs are being authored by the talented team at Rock Gamer Studios, and the band hopes that the launch of these new downloadable tracks for Rock Band will help get the word out about their necessary name change.
The band will debut their new name at their Valentines are for Pussies show at the Baseball Tavern in Boston on February 13th, with the Jeddo Stars, Tired Old Bones, and the Chemical Smiles (sponsored by Narragansett Beer).
Featured on the multi-million unit-selling video games Rock Band® and Guitar Hero® II, Tijuana Sweetheart (formerly VAGIANT) has managed to expand beyond the Boston bar scene and into living rooms worldwide. The band was nominated for Punk Act of the Year in the 2009 Boston Music Awards and has performed live with such bands as Bang Camaro, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, DMZ, and the Ducky Boys.
Tijuana Sweetheart is an all-girl punk/rock outfit from Allston, MA. They enjoy playing raucous live shows, eating chicken wings, and have recently determined, as a result of their band name brainstorming, that group consensus is an exercise in futility and now believe in benevolent dictatorship. (www.tijuanasweetheart.com)
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Dr. Ryan D'Arcy, of Simon Fraser University, will lead the charge.
"I'm going to continue doing what I love for as long as they let me do it," he told the Now.
He's tasked with "developing the medical research capacity that sits in Surrey," he said.
Hailing from the Institute for Biodiagnostics in Halifax, D'Arcy is pretty much a rock star in the field of neuroscience. His work is expected to put Surrey on the map in terms of being a city on the cutting edge of diagnosis and treatment of people suffering from brain injuries.
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Dr. Nimal Rajapakse, the dean of SFU's faculty of applied sciences, played an important role in recruiting D'Arcy. The interest generated from the $5.2 million will help pay for the project, which will be reviewed every five years by an advisory board. All told, D'Arcy will have up to 20 graduate students and technicians conducting research under his guidance at labs on SFU's campus and at the hospital.
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