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Diseases had already begun to disappear before vaccines were introduced, because of better hygiene and sanitation.
Statements like this are very common in anti-vaccine literature, the intent apparently being to suggest that vaccines are not needed. Improved socioeconomic conditions have undoubtedly had an indirect impact on disease. Better nutrition, not to mention the development of antibiotics and other treatments, have increased survival rates among the sick; less crowded living conditions have reduced disease transmission; and lower birth rates have decreased the number of susceptible household contacts. But looking at the actual incidence of disease over the years can leave little doubt of the significant direct impact vaccines have had, even in modern times. Here, for example, is a graph showing the reported incidence of measles from 1950 to the present.
There were periodic peaks and valleys throughout the years, but the real, permanent drop coincided with the licensure and wide use of measles vaccine beginning in 1963. Graphs for other vaccine-preventable diseases show a roughly similar pattern, with all except hepatitis B* showing a significant drop in cases corresponding with the advent of vaccine use. Are we expected to believe that better sanitation caused incidence of each disease to drop, just at the time a vaccine for that disease was introduced?
*The incidence rate of hepatitis B has not dropped so dramatically yet because the infants we began vaccinating in 1991 will not be at high risk for the disease until they are at least teenagers. We therefore expect about a 15 year lag between the start of universal infant vaccination and a significant drop in disease incidence.
Hib vaccine is another good example, because Hib disease was prevalent until just a few years ago, when conjugate vaccines that can be used for infants were finally developed. (The polysaccharide vaccine previously available could not be used for infants, in whom most of cases of the disease were occurring.) Since sanitation is not better now than it was in 1990, it is hard to attribute the virtual disappearance of Hib disease in children in recent years (from an estimated 20,000 cases a year to 1,419 cases in 1993, and dropping) to anything other than the vaccine.
Varicella can also be used to illustrate the point, since modern sanitation has obviously not prevented nearly 4 million cases each year in the United States. If diseases were disappearing, we should expect varicella to be disappearing along with the rest of them. But nearly all children in the United States get the disease today, just as they did 20 years ago or 80 years ago. Based on experience with the varicella vaccine in studies before licensure, we can expect the incidence of varicella to drop significantly now that a vaccine has been licensed for the United States.
Finally, we can look at the experiences of several developed countries after they let their immunization levels drop. Three countries – Great Britain, Sweden, and Japan – cut back the use of pertussis vaccine because of fear about the vaccine. The effect was dramatic and immediate. In Great Britain, a drop in pertussis vaccination in 1974 was followed by an epidemic of more than 100,000 cases of pertussis and 36 deaths by 1978. In Japan, around the same time, a drop in vaccination rates from 70% to 20%-40% led to a jump in pertussis from 393 cases and no deaths in 1974 to 13,000 cases and 41 deaths in 1979. In Sweden, the annual incidence rate of pertussis per 100,000 children 0-6 years of age increased from 700 cases in 1981 to 3,200 in 1985. It seems clear from these experiences that not only would diseases not be disappearing without vaccines, but if we were to stop vaccinating, they would come back.
Of more immediate interest is the major epidemic of diphtheria now occurring in the former Soviet Union, where low primary immunization rates for children and the lack of booster vaccinations for adults have resulted in an increase from 839 cases in 1989 to nearly 50,000 cases and 1,700 deaths in 1994. There have already been at least 20 imported cases in Europe and two cases in U.S. citizens working in the former Soviet Union.
The majority of people who get disease have been vaccinated.
This is another argument frequently found in anti-vaccine literature – the implication being that this proves vaccines are not effective. In fact it is true that in an outbreak those who have been vaccinated often outnumber those who have not – even with vaccines such as measles, which we know to be about 98% effective when used as recommended.
This apparent paradox is explained by two factors. First, no vaccine is 100% effective. To make vaccines safer than the disease, the bacteria or virus is killed or weakened (attenuated). For reasons related to the individual, not all vaccinated persons develop immunity. Most routine childhood vaccines are effective for 85% to 95% of recipients. Second, in a country such as the United States the people who have been vaccinated vastly outnumber those who have not. How these two factors work together to result in outbreaks in which the majority of cases have been vaccinated can be more easily understood by looking at a hypothetical example:
In a high school of 1,000 students, none has ever had measles. All but 5 of the students have had two doses of measles vaccine, and so are fully immunized. The entire student body is exposed to measles, and every susceptible student becomes infected. The 5 unvaccinated students will be infected, of course. But of the 995 who have been vaccinated, we would expect several not to respond to the vaccine. The efficacy rate for two doses of measles vaccine can be as high as >99%. In this class, 7 students do not respond, and they, too, become infected. Therefore 7 of 12, or about 58%, of the cases occur in students who have been fully vaccinated.
As you can see, this doesn't prove the vaccine didn't work – only that most of the children in the class had been vaccinated, so those who were vaccinated and did not respond outnumbered those who had not been vaccinated. Looking at it another way, 100% of the children who had not been vaccinated got measles, compared with less than 1% of those who had been vaccinated. Measles vaccine protected most of the class; if nobody in the class had been vaccinated, there would probably have been 1,000 cases of measles.
There are "hot lots" of vaccine that have been associated with more adverse events and deaths than others. Parents should find the numbers of these lots and not allow their children to receive vaccines from them.
This misconception got considerable publicity recently when vaccine safety was the subject of a television news program. First of all, the concept of a "hot lot" of vaccine as it is used in this context is wrong. It is based on the presumption that the more reports to VAERS** a vaccine lot is associated with, the more dangerous the vaccine in that lot; and that by consulting a list of the number of reports per lot, a parent can identify vaccine lots to avoid.
This is misleading for two reasons:
1. A report made to VAERS does not mean that the vaccine, or other vaccines from the same group or lot caused the event. VAERS is a national system for reporting health problems that happen around the same time of the vaccination. Only some of the reported health conditions are side effects related to vaccines. A certain number of VAERS reports of serious illnesses or death do occur by chance alone among persons who have been recently vaccinated.
VAERS reports have many limitations since they often lack important information, such as laboratory results, used to establish a true association with the vaccine. For all serious and other clinically significant events (life-threatening events, hospitalization, permanent disability, death), follow-up with the health care provider and/or the parent or vaccinated individual is conducted in an attempt to collect supplemental information on the reports. Because of the limitations of this type of reporting system, causality is difficult to determine. Regardless of the cause, VAERS is interested in hearing about any health concerns that happen around the time of vaccination. In summary, scientists are not able to identify a problem with a vaccine lot based on VAERS reports alone without scientific analysis of other factors and data.
2. Vaccine lots are not the same. The sizes of vaccine lots might vary from several hundred thousand doses to several million, and some are in distribution much longer than others. Naturally a larger lot or one that is in distribution longer will be associated with more adverse events, simply by chance. Also, more coincidental deaths are associated with vaccines given in infancy than later in childhood, since the background death rates for children are highest during the first year of life. So knowing that lot A has been associated with x number of adverse events while lot B has been associated with y number would not necessarily say anything about the relative safety of the two lots, even if the vaccine did cause the events.
Reviewing published lists of "hot lots" will not help parents identify the best or worst vaccines for their children. If the number and type of VAERS reports for a particular vaccine lot suggested that it was associated with more serious adverse events or deaths than are expected by chance, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the legal authority to immediately recall that lot. To date, no vaccine lot in the modern era has been found to be unsafe on the basis of VAERS reports.
All vaccine manufacturing facilities and vaccine products are licensed by the FDA. In addition, every vaccine lot is safety-tested by the manufacturer. The results of these tests are reviewed by FDA, who may repeat some of these tests as an additional protective measure. FDA also inspects vaccine-manufacturing facilities regularly to ensure adherence to manufacturing procedures and product-testing regulations, and reviews the weekly VAERS reports for each lot searching for unusual patterns. FDA would recall a lot of vaccine at the first sign of problems. There is no benefit to either the FDA or the manufacturer in allowing unsafe vaccine to remain on the market. The American public would not tolerate vaccines if they did not have to conform to the most rigorous safety standards. The mere fact is that a vaccine lot still in distribution says that the FDA considers it safe.
Vaccines cause many harmful side effects, illnesses, and even death – not to mention possible long-term effects we don't even know about.
Vaccines are actually very safe, despite implications to the contrary in many anti-vaccine publications (which sometimes contain the number of reports received by VAERS, and allow the reader to infer that all of them represent genuine vaccine side-effects). Most vaccine adverse events are minor and temporary, such as a sore arm or mild fever. These can often be controlled by taking acetaminophen before or after vaccination. More serious adverse events occur rarely (on the order of one per thousands to one per millions of doses), and some are so rare that risk cannot be accurately assessed. As for vaccines causing death, again so few deaths can plausibly be attributed to vaccines that it is hard to assess the risk statistically. Of all deaths reported to VAERS between 1990 and 1992, only one is believed to be even possibly associated with a vaccine. Each death reported to VAERS is thoroughly examined to ensure that it is not related to a new vaccine-related problem, but little or no evidence suggests that vaccines have contributed to any of the reported deaths. The Institute of Medicine in its 1994 report states that the risk of death from vaccines is "extraordinarily low."
DTP Vaccine and SIDS
One myth that won't seem to go away is that DTP vaccine causes sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). This belief came about because a moderate proportion of children who die of SIDS have recently been vaccinated with DTP; and on the surface, this seems to point toward a causal connection. But this logic is faulty; you might as well say that eating bread causes car crashes, since most drivers who crash their cars could probably be shown to have eaten bread within the past 24 hours.
If you consider that most SIDS deaths occur during the age range when 3 shots of DTP are given, you would expect DTP shots to precede a fair number of SIDS deaths simply by chance. In fact, when a number of well-controlled studies were conducted during the 1980′s, the investigators found, nearly unanimously, that the number of SIDS deaths temporally associated with DTP vaccination was within the range expected to occur by chance. In other words, the SIDS deaths would have occurred even if no vaccinations had been given. In fact, in several of the studies children who had recently gotten a DTP shot were less likely to get SIDS. The Institute of Medicine reported that "all controlled studies that have compared immunized versus nonimmunized children have found either no association . . . or a decreased risk . . . of SIDS among immunized children" and concluded that "the evidence does not indicate a causal relation between [DTP] vaccine and SIDS."
But looking at risk alone is not enough – you must always look at both risks and benefits. Even one serious adverse effect in a million doses of vaccine cannot be justified if there is no benefit from the vaccination. If there were no vaccines, there would be many more cases of disease, and along with them, more serious side effects and more deaths. For example, according to an analysis of the benefit and risk of DTP immunization, if we had no immunization program in the United States, pertussis cases could increase 71-fold and deaths due to pertussis could increase 4-fold. Comparing the risk from disease with the risk from the vaccines can give us an idea of the benefits we get from vaccinating our children.
Risk from Disease versus Risk from Vaccines
Pneumonia: 6 in 100
Encephalitis: 1 in 1,000_Death: 2 in 1,000
Congenital Rubella Syndrome: 1 in 4 (if woman becomes infected early in pregnancy)
Encephalitis or severe allergic reaction: 1 in 1,000,000
Death: 1 in 20
Death: 2 in 10
Pneumonia: 1 in 8
Encephalitis: 1 in 20
Death: 1 in 200
Continuous crying, then full recovery: 1 in 1000
Convulsions or shock, then full recovery: 1 in 14,000
Acute encephalopathy: 0-10.5 in 1,000,000
Death: None proven
The fact is that a child is far more likely to be seriously injured by one of these diseases than by any vaccine. While any serious injury or death caused by vaccines is too many, it is also clear that the benefits of vaccination greatly outweigh the slight risk, and that many, many more injuries and deaths would occur without vaccinations. In fact, to have a medical intervention as effective as vaccination in preventing disease and not use it would be unconscionable.
Research is underway by the U.S. Public Health Service to better understand which vaccine adverse events are truly caused by vaccines and how to reduce even further the already low risk of serious vaccine-related injury.
Vaccine-preventable diseases have been virtually eliminated from the United States, so there is no need for my child to be vaccinated.
It's true that vaccination has enabled us to reduce most vaccine-preventable diseases to very low levels in the United States. However, some of them are still quite prevalent – even epidemic – in other parts of the world. Travelers can unknowingly bring these diseases into the United States, and if we were not protected by vaccinations these diseases could quickly spread throughout the population, causing epidemics here. At the same time, the relatively few cases we currently have in the U.S. could very quickly become tens or hundreds of thousands of cases without the protection we get from vaccines.
We should still be vaccinated, then, for two reasons. The first is to protect ourselves. Even if we think our chances of getting any of these diseases are small, the diseases still exist and can still infect anyone who is not protected. A few years ago in California a child who had just entered school caught diphtheria and died. He was the only unvaccinated pupil in his class.
The second reason to get vaccinated is to protect those around us. There is a small number of people who cannot be vaccinated (because of severe allergies to vaccine components, for example), and a small percentage of people don't respond to vaccines. These people are susceptible to disease, and their only hope of protection is that people around them are immune and cannot pass disease along to them. A successful vaccination program, like a successful society, depends on the cooperation of every individual to ensure the good of all. We would think it irresponsible of a driver to ignore all traffic regulations on the presumption that other drivers will watch out for him or her. In the same way we shouldn't rely on people around us to stop the spread of disease; we, too, must do what we can.
Giving a child multiple vaccinations for different diseases at the same time increases the risk of harmful side effects and can overload the immune system.
Children are exposed to many foreign antigens every day. Eating food introduces new bacteria into the body, and numerous bacteria live in the mouth and nose, exposing the immune system to still more antigens. An upper respiratory viral infection exposes a child to 4 – 10 antigens, and a case of "strep throat" to 25 – 50. According to Adverse Events Associated with Childhood Vaccines, a 1994 report from the Institute of Medicine, "In the face of these normal events, it seems unlikely that the number of separate antigens contained in childhood vaccines . . . would represent an appreciable added burden on the immune system that would be immunosuppressive." And, indeed, available scientific data show that simultaneous vaccination with multiple vaccines has no adverse effect on the normal childhood immune system.
A number of studies have been conducted to examine the effects of giving various combinations of vaccines simultaneously. In fact, neither the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) nor the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would recommend the simultaneous administration of any vaccines until such studies showed the combinations to be both safe and effective. These studies have shown that the recommended vaccines are as effective in combination as they are individually, and that such combinations carry no greater risk for adverse side effects. Consequently, both the ACIP and AAP recommend simultaneous administration of all routine childhood vaccines when appropriate. Research is under way to find ways to combine more antigens in a single vaccine injection (for example, MMR and chickenpox). This will provide all the advantages of the individual vaccines, but will require fewer shots.
There are two practical factors in favor of giving a child several vaccinations during the same visit. First, we want to immunize children as early as possible to give them protection during the vulnerable early months of their lives. This generally means giving inactivated vaccines beginning at 2 months and live vaccines at 12 months. The various vaccine doses thus tend to fall due at the same time. Second, giving several vaccinations at the same time will mean fewer office visits for vaccinations, which saves parents both time and money and may be less traumatic for the child.
Vaccines, 4th Edition By Stanley A. Plotkin, MD and Walter A. Orenstein, MD Approx. 1696 pages, Copyright 2004 http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=0721696880


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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake will renew its rivalry with 2011 and 2012 Western Conference Semifinal opponent Seattle Sounders FC on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium.
A shorthanded RSL side – which was without a whopping 11 players due to international call-ups and injuries – lost its last match, conceding twice in the final 20 minutes to drop a 2-0 result at FC Dallas last Saturday.
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RSL went 1-1-3 in five games against Seattle in the 2012 MLS regular season and 2012 MLS Cup Playoffs. Sounders FC bounced RSL from the Western Conference Semifinals last November, scoring a late goal at Rio Tinto Stadium in the series' second leg to advance past the Claret-and-Cobalt 1-0 on aggregate. There were just two total goals scored in the five RSL-Seattle matches last year.
Seattle is 0-2-1 on the MLS season, losing 1-0 at home to Montreal in its season opener on March 2, tying Portland 1-1 at home on March 16 and losing 1-0 at San Jose on March 23.
Sounders FC have had more success in CONCACAF Champions League play, beating Mexican club Tigres UANL 3-2 on aggregate in the CCL Quarterfinals earlier this month. The Quarterfinal victory moved Seattle into the CCL Semifinals against Mexican club Santos Laguna. The first leg of the CCL Semis is on April 2 in Seattle, setting up some slight match congestion that could prompt Sounders FC Head Coach Sigi Schmid to sit some of his regulars on Saturday at Rio Tinto Stadium.
The Claret-and-Cobalt will play again on Monday, April 1, taking on Brigham Young University in a friendly match at Rio Tinto Stadium at 6:30 p.m. Tickets to the match are $5 for RSL Season Ticket Holders and $10 for the General Public and can be purchased online, at the Rio Tinto Stadium box office or by calling 801-727-2700.
RSL will return to MLS action on Saturday, April 6, when the team will face off against Rocky Mountain Cup Presented by Mark Miller Subaru rival the Colorado Rapids at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
Stay tuned to www.RealSaltLake.com and follow the club on Twitter @RealSaltLake for all the latest news and information on the team ahead of Saturday's MLS matchup against Seattle Sounders FC.
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- Kickoff: 7:00 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah
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- English Radio: ESPN700 AM (Pregame begins at 6:00 p.m. MT)
- Spanish Radio: La Gran D 102.3 FM & Juan 1600 AM
Online: The @RealSaltLake Twitter Feed will provide live match updates
Click here to download the PDF version of the MLS Game Guide for Saturday's RSL-SEA matchup
RSL History v. Seattle Sounders FC
Real Salt Lake is 3-2-4 in MLS regular season matches against Seattle Sounders FC and 1-2-1 against Seattle in MLS Cup Playoff games.
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The Advocate of Lyrical Attentiveness
Fuad Rifka's primary literary influence was not the English or French canon, but the German. In the late 1950s he arrived at the University of Tübingen to study philosophy, and gained his doctorate there in 1965 on the subject of Heidegger's aesthetics.
His numerous translations were the first to acquaint Arab readers with the poetry of Hölderlin, Rilke and Trakl, writers who also influenced Rifka's own work.
Exponent of quiet observation
This background seems to have made Rifka's poetry particularly well suited to translation into German. There are four volumes of his work available here, including Das Tal der Rituale [The Valley of Rituals], published by Straelener Manuskripte, and the Tagebuch eines Holzsammlers [Diary of a Wood Collector] by Heiderhoff Verlag.
Rifka's poetry is far removed from the bombastic rhetoric of many other Arab poets of his generation. He was always an exponent of quiet observation, an advocate of lyrical attentiveness who combines profundity and simplicity in texts that are immediately intelligible: October: / birds migrate, / faithful boughs wave, / their leaves in the wind / are tears. (from the poem 'Painting')
Influence on the younger generation
Since the 1990s, German readers have also come to know Rifka's work. He was often invited to give readings in Germany, and was a corresponding member of the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung [German Academy for Language and Poetry]. Last year, already apparently in ill health, he was awarded the Goethe Medal for the mediation of German literature abroad at a ceremony in Weimar.
Numerous obituaries across the Arab world have paid tribute to his remarkable literary stature. The fact that he was an outsider in his own generation made his work all the more influential for younger poets, who were striving to develop a new, unpretentious language and style. Rifka's poetry will continue be read for many years to come, both in Arabic and in German.
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I usually sponsors three to five research projects per semester. Recent topics have included a comparison of the quality differences in the odor of the enantiomers of carvone, a comparison of the quality of nasal vs. retronasal olfaction, the comparisons of taste and smell in young and elderly people, the relationship between human nasal anatomy and olfactory ability, the relationship between odors and light on exercise performance in athletes and non-athletes, and the limits of canine olfaction. This latter work explored the minimum number of odor molecules necessary for a dog to identify a human target. Although most of the projects I sponsor deal with the chemical senses, I have also advised projects on volume changes during hemorrhagic shock, the development of a computer program to plot the three dimensional activity of the human heart and the development of a CD to provide health and safety information for SLU students who are planning to study abroad. About 75% of the projects I sponsor result in at least a published abstract.


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Qatar Airways joins airlines alliance
Qatar Airways is joining an alliance of airlines including American Airlines, British Airways and nine other carriers that coordinate routes and allow passengers to earn frequent flier miles on each other's flights.
The inclusion in the oneworld alliance - aimed at allowing passengers to hop around the globe easier - signals the growing importance of Persian Gulf carriers such as Doha-based Qatar.
"Alliances are playing an increasingly important role in the airline industry today - and that will continue long into the future," Qatar's CEO Akbar Al Baker said in a statement.
It will take 12 to 18 months for Qatar to join the alliance. The oneworld alliance competes with SkyTeam, a group of airlines including Delta Air Line, and the Star Alliance, which includes United Airlines and US Airways.
Frequent business travelers like alliances because they are able to earn and redeem frequent flier miles with the partners, use alliance airport lounges and book complicated trips on one itinerary. A flier could travel on a Cathay Pacific, British Airways or Iberia flight and earn American Airlines miles for those flights.
Another rapidly expanding Gulf carrier, Etihad Airways, announced earlier Monday that it will start jointly marketing some of its flights with Air France-KLM, part of SkyTeam.
The deals, known as codeshares, allow passengers to buy a single ticket to fly on multiple airlines and are common in the airline industry. Carriers can expand their reach without having to launch or acquire the right to operate additional routes. For example, American Airlines and Iberia can sell tickets on a flight operated by British Airways as if the flight was their own.
The third big Gulf carrier, Dubai-based Emirates, recently signed a 10-year deal with Australia's Qantas Airways. That spelled the end of a long-term relationship between the Australian carrier and British Airways.
Eithad and Emirates have yet to join one of the big three alliances. The inclusion of Qatar in oneworld helps put the airline - which isn't well known in North America - on the map on the continent.
American's pilots, however, aren't happy about the deal. They are in a nasty contract dispute with the company as it restructures in federal bankruptcy court. They picketed Monday's event saying partnerships like the new one with Qatar are costing them jobs.
"It's cutting in on our flying and our jobs," said Capt. John Diacsuk. "How do you maintain morale at a company where everybody is getting pink slips."
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Twihards around the country came out in droves to give Bella, Edward & Co. a proper farewell.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, the fifth and final film in the franchise, grossed an estimated $141.3 million in its opening weekend to easily grab the top spot, Box Office Mojo reports. The film now ranks as the eighth highest-grossing opening ever, and the fourth highest of 2012. However, Breaking Dawn — Part 2 failed to eclipse New Moon's record for best Twilight opening weekend, set back in 2009 at $142.8 million.
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After besting the Bond franchise box office opening record last week, Skyfall fell to No. 2 with $41.5 million. In third place, Lincoln earned $21 million after expanding to more than 1,000 theaters on Friday.
Wreck-It Ralph grabbed the No. 4 spot with $18.3 million. Taking in $8.6 million, Flight followed in fifth place.
At No. 6, Argo drew $4.1 million. Taken 2 took seventh place with $2.1 million.
Rounding out the top 10: Pitch Perfect (No. 8, $1.26 million), Here Comes the Boom (No. 9, $1.2 million) and Cloud Atlas, The Sessions and Hotel Transylvania, which all earned $900,000 each to tie for No. 10.


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WINNER: John Rich
Country singer John Rich first found success in the band Lonestar. After being fired from the band in 1998, he went on to form the duo Big & Rich, which released three albums. After Big & Rich went on hiatus in 2007, he continued working on his solo career and has co-written singles for multiple artists.
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Actress Marlee Matlin, who lost most of her hearing at 18 months old, became the youngest women to win a Best Actress Oscar, at the age of 21, for her role in in 1986's "Children of a Lesser God." She also portrayed a deaf lesbian on "The L Word" and appeared on "Dancing with the Stars."
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Meat Loaf
Fired in the 11th episode on May 15, 2011.
Grammy-winning rocker Meat Loaf shot onto the musical landscape with 1977's "Bat Out of Hell," which has sold more than 43 million copies. He's also appeared in films including "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Fight Club" and "Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny."
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Lil Jon
Fired in the 11th episode on May 15, 2011.
Rapper Lil John is best known for his solo work and for being a member of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. He's also produced songs with artists including Usher, Ciara, The Ying Yang Twins, E-40, and LMFAO.
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Star Jones
Fired in the 10th episode on May 8, 2011.
Lawyer and TV personality Star Jones is best known for her role as a former co-host of "The View," where she appeared for nine years. She also had her own show on TruTV (formerly Court TV), has done red carpet commentary for E! and written two books.
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Ne Ne Leakes
Quit the show in the 10th episode on May 8, 2011.
Ne Ne Leakes is one of the stars of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." She is also the author of "Never Make the Same Mistake Twice" and has served as a guest panelist on "The Insider."
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La Toya Jackson
Fired in the eighth episode on April 24, 2011, then reinstated in the competition on May 1, 2011 and fired again in the 10th episode on May 8, 2011.
La Toya Jackson is the older sister of music icons Janet Jackson and the late Michael Jackson. She had a music career of her own throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and has appeared on TV shows such as "Armed & Famous" and "Celebrity Big Brother."
Hope Dworaczyk
Fired in the ninth episode on May 1, 2011.
Model Hope Dworaczyk was named 2010's Playmate of the Year by Playboy magazine. Dworaczyk is also the host and co-producer for Inside Fashion on television in Canada for the E! channel. Her runway work has included Balenciaga, Leila Rose, Rosa Cha and Miss Sixty.
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Gary Busey
Fired in the seventh episode on April 17, 2011.
Actor Gary Busey was nominated for an Academy Award for his role 1978's "The Buddy Holly Story." His other film credits include "Rookie of the Year," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "The Firm," "Point Break," and "Black Sheep." Busey has also appeared as himself on HBO's "Entourage."
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Mark McGrath
Fired in the sixth episode on April 10, 2011.
Mark McGrath is best known as the frontman for the rock band Sugar Ray. He also was the host of "Extra!" from 2004-2008 and hosted the 2010 edition of "Don't Forget the Lyrics!"
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Richard Hatch
Fired in the fifth episode on April 3, 2011.
Richard Hatch won the first season of CBS' "Survivor," and later went to prison for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million prize he won on the show. He competed again on "Survivor: All Stars" in 2004, but was voted off in the fifth round.
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Jose Canseco
Quit in the fifth episode on April 3, 2011.
Jose Canseco is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and designated hitter. He was named Rookie of the Year in 1986 and Most Valuable After retiring from baseball, he appeared on season five of "The Surreal Life" and wrote a tell-all book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big."
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Dionne Warwick
Fired in the fourth episode on March 27, 2011.
Grammy-winning singer Dionne Warwick is best known for her Burt Bacharach/Hal David recordings including "Walk on By," "Promises, Promises," "A House is Not a Home" and "Alfie." Her 1982 album "Heartbreaker" became an international smash hit. She also lent her voice to the AIDS benefit single "That's What Friends Are For" alongside Gladys Knight, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder.
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Niki Taylor
Fired in the third episode on March 20, 2011.
Niki Taylor was the youngest model to ever sign a six-figure deal, and became the first spokesmodel younger than 18 to sign a major contract with CoverGirl cosmetics. She has appeared on the covers of magazines from Vogue to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She also co-hosted the Bravo series "Make Me a Supermodel."
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Lisa Rinna
Fired in the second episode on March 13, 2011.
TV host and actress Lisa Rinna is best known for her roles on "Days of Our Lives" and "Melrose Place." She also competed in the second season of "Dancing with the Stars" and filmed a reality show for TVLand with husband Harry Hamlin, called "Harry Loves Lisa."
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David Cassidy
Fired in the first episode on March 6, 2011.
Former teen idol David Cassidy is best known for his role as Keith Partridge on "The Partridge Family." He also had a successful musical career. Most recently, he co-starred alongside his brother Patrick in the short-lived ABC Family series "Ruby & The Rockits."
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With the influence of a master number and three letters with a value of 1, Nic is a man of calibre. We are in the presence of a headstrong, determined and somewhat egocentric individual. Usually reserved and distant, he can often come across as being quite aloof when actually he is a rather timid creature who tries to hide this fact from the world by way of an apparently icy attitude or a proud, conceited demeanour which is equally designed to compensate for his innate shyness. Inclined to hyperactivity, Nic is capable of relentless hard work. If life and circumstances allow him to live up to the vibrations of the 22, he will effortlessly take control of his destiny and perhaps even other people´s while he´s at it because power is particularly attractive to him and he will reveal himself to be tenacious, perseverant and patient. As he sees it, he who desires the ends must be prepared to provide the means... Of exemplary moral character, Nic is also capable of being extremely charming and seductive. Nevertheless he is authoritarian and high handed first and foremost. An impatient man who loathes wasting his time, he won´t stop until he achieves his goals - whatever the cost. Failure and obstacles don´t undermine his courage and even serve to reinforce his resolve. He is highly strung and although he possesses impressive self-control he is not immune to mood swings and can be known to lose his cool at times. With his rational and practical mind Nic is an organised and methodical man. As a child, he can easily become introverted and uncommunicative if he feels unloved or misunderstood. Possessive and private, he will hardly appreciate his siblings touching his books or belongings and can react violently to what he considers a crime of disrespect. He doesn´t dislike the masses, however he frequently requires time alone to enjoy peace and quiet. Autonomous and independent, he is generally attentive at school, although from time to time he may feel the need to escape into daydreams.
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He enjoys contact with the public, travel and anything that allows him to escape. He seeks to acquire a certain wisdom and often wants to put the world to rights. Although he is egocentric and possessive by nature, he still cares deeply about others and humanity in general. He can sometimes be attracted to poetry, music, religion or the irrational, in keeping with his desire to escape material reality. In matters of the heart, he is a hopeless romantic who aspires to synergy and dreams of sharing himself completely with the one he loves. However, he remains possessive and uncompromising, and any wrong move on his partner´s behalf will not be easy for him to forgive - he has an excellent memory and tends to hold a grudge...
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The Rangers emerged victorious in a hard fought 7 games series with Ottawa, and now find themselves moving on to round 2 to face the Washington Capitals.
The 7 seed Caps are led by superstar Alex Ovechkin, and overcame a sluggish regular season to upset the defending champion Bruins in round 1. But, these aren't the highflying Capitals of yesteryear; these Caps are a defense first bunch. The top-seeded Rangers will be looking to punch their ticket to the conference finals for the first time since 1997. Can they do it? Or will Washington end the Rangers renaissance season? Join Mike Watts and I as we break down the matchup.


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During the 1940s and 1950s, Navy Nurses and Red Cross workers served important roles at Camp Parks and neighboring Shoemaker Hospital, a 3,000-bed facility which provided care for almost 46,000 patients during World War II. This exhibit salutes the women who helped to heal, comfort and transition injured sailors and Marines back to civilian life in a dynamic post-War world. On display are original Nurse and Red Cross uniforms, medical equipment, therapy artifacts and photos.


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Are Google and Facebook Lying About the Spying?
Google and Facebook have denied being part of a secret government data collection program led by the National Security Agency but many analysts and industry observers just don't believe them. MarketWatch's Ben Pimentel discusses why. (Photo: Getty Images)
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NFC is still nascent for mobile phones, and the applications are sparse. But the future looks promising. RIM Senior Product Manager Annu Dawar said that RIM just received Visa certification for mobile payments, one of the biggest applications for NFC today, but carriers need to enable this, of course. Dawar said that another easy application could be using the NFC phone for things like building access.
[ RIM also is updating its PlayBook operating system. Read RIM PlayBook 2.0: Here Come The Apps. ]
BlackBerry 7.1 also includes the ability to make the phone a mobile hot spot (Dawar said all of the carriers have approved this). RIM has integrated Bing as its universal search, and enabled Wi-Fi calling (previous version supported this, but BlackBerry didn't include it in 7.0); T-Mobile supports this feature.
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Lawyers for Playboy magazine are suing Harper's Bazaar publisher Hearst Communications over its online use of photos of fashion model Kate Moss.
Court papers filed in federal court in Manhattan say the magazine violated Playboy's exclusive right to publish the pictures taken by fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcos Piggott for the publication's 60th anniversary issue.
The suit alleges Harper's posted on its website a clothed photo of the 40-year-old supermodel from the Playboy shoot but added a hyperlink that took readers to another website showing the nude and partially nude photo spread.
The lawsuit seeks US$150,000 per photo infringed.
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The price of gold could beat the record high of $1,609.51 an ounce it hit earlier this week, a fund manager told CNBC Thursday.
"Gold will go much higher," said Irakli Menabde, founding partner of fund manager M2 Capital Partners.
"It's one of the most attractive investment opportunities out there."
The price of spot gold has tripled since the current bull market began five years ago.
While the price of gold usually falls during the summer, the past month has been very different.
During the last sizeable spike, in the 1970s, it saw a 24-fold increase from $35 to $850 per ounce, according to Menabde.
"Gold is a reflection of what's going on in fiscal and monetary policies of the developed world and what's going on in terms of the great inflation scare in emerging markets," he said.
Gold, seen as a safe haven in times of economic turmoil, has shot up as fears grow about debt crises on both sides of the Atlantic.
In recent years, its price has also been boosted by the increased buying power of India and China in particular.
As inflation is currently high in India, gold has become a more popular investment. India and China accounted for 58 percent of physical gold demand around the world in the first quarter of this year, according to the World Gold Council.
Another important factor in the rise of the price of gold has been the increase in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) buying physical gold.
Investments in ETFs backed by physical bullion rose to a record 2,156 tonnes on July 15, according to Barclays Capital.
Robbert Van Batenburg Head of Global Research, Louis Capital Markets told CNBC that the ETFs need for physical gold, stored in vaults, could have negative consequences.
"There has been a surge of ETFs to gold," he said. "At some point, this is going to put so much stress on the system and I fear regulatory zeal will be drawn towards these ETFs at some point."
M2 Capital Partners is sponsoring the GATA Gold Rush conference in London in August.
Menabde called for a gold stock market and said: "The gold physical market is more about the defensive nature of gold, but a gold stock market would also deliver dividends and surging share prices."
"We have seen the decoupling between the gold price and gold stocks, and at some point we will see the divergence between gold stocks price and physical price."


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Putting light-harvesters on the spot
How the light-harvesting complexes required for photosynthesis get to their site of action in the plant cell is reported by RUB biologists in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The team led by Prof. Dr. Danja Schunemann has demonstrated for the first time that a membrane protein interacts with a single soluble protein to anchor the subunits of the light-harvesting complexes in the membrane. The researchers propose a new model that explains the integration into the membrane through the formation of a pore.
Photosynthesis occurs in special areas of the plant cells, the chloroplasts, whereby the energy-converting process takes place in specific protein complexes (photosystems). To capture the light energy and efficiently transmit it to the photosystems, light-harvesting complexes are required which work like antenna. "The proteins of the light-harvesting complexes are the most abundant membrane proteins on Earth" says Dr. Beatrix Dünschede of the RUB. "There is a special transport mechanism that conveys them into the chloroplasts and incorporates them into the photosynthetic membrane". Exactly how the various transport proteins interact with each other had, up to now, been unclear.
Several soluble proteins and the membrane protein Alb3 that channels the proteins of the light-harvesting complexes into the membrane are involved in the transport. Bochum's biologists examined intact, isolated plant cells and found that, for this purpose, Alb3 interacts with only a single soluble transport protein (cpSRP43). They confirmed this result in a second experiment with artificial membrane systems. "In a further experiment, we identified the region in Alb3 to which the soluble protein cpSRP43 binds" explains the RUB biologist Dr. Thomas Bals. "It turned out that the binding site is partly within the membrane and thus cannot be freely accessible for cpSRP43."
Schünemann's team explains the data with a new model. The soluble transport proteins bind the proteins of the light-harvesting complexes and transport them to the membrane. There, the soluble transport protein cpSRP43 interacts with the membrane protein Alb3, which then forms a pore. The proteins of the light-harvesting complexes get into the pore, and from there they are released laterally into the membrane. "There are proteins in other organisms which are very similar to Alb3 and apparently also form pores" says Dünschede. "This supports our model. We are now planning new experiments in order to recreate the entire transport path in an artificial system."
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LA medical pot clinic plan passes hurdle
A proposal to regulate medical marijuana clinics in Los Angeles has passed a hurdle.
The city clerk determined last week that the measure has enough signatures to go to the City Council, which can decide whether to pass it or place it on a city ballot.
The measure, sponsored by a union, pot clinic owners, employees and patients, would limit the number of dispensaries in town to 100 and set other restrictions.
A separate but similar initiative qualified last month, and the city Planning Commission has approved a third proposal that would permit about 180 clinics.
All three plans aim to replace the City Council's total ban on clinics, which was passed last year but then rescinded.
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Rob Portman's liberal critics are wrong (Column)
Hypocrite. Narcissist. Wingnut. Bigot. Those are some of the epithets -- not counting the expletives -- that have been hurled at Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, since he announced Friday that he now supports same-sex marriage because his son is gay. But these epithets aren't coming from the right. They're coming from the left.
According to liberal columnists and bloggers, Portman's conversion--the first on this issue by any Republican senator--is too little, too late, and short on "empathy." But it isn't Portman who's having an empathy problem. It's his critics. They don't really understand Portman, conservatives, empathy, or how people change.
Portman's detractors claim he "didn't take a stand for ... other people's children" and showed "absolutely no genuine empathy ... for the other approximately 11,699,999 LGBT in the United States." That isn't true. In an op-ed explaining his conversion, Portman wrote that "all of our sons and daughters ought to have the same opportunity to experience the joy and stability of marriage." He said Congress should repeal the part of the Defense of Marriage Act that denies federal marriage benefits, such as joint tax filing, to legally married same-sex couples.
To cast Portman as a hypocrite, his critics point out that he voted to prohibit adoptions by gay couples in the District of Columbia and to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. What they don't mention is that these votes took place 14 and nine years ago, respectively. In the evolution of this issue, that's an eternity. Until 10 months ago, no major presidential candidate in either party had endorsed gay marriage.
The critics claim that in an interview last year, Portman--knowing at that point that his son was gay--opposed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and was "endorsing discriminatory policies." That isn't true, either. The transcript shows he ducked the question, changed the subject, and concluded that while "no one should discriminate," we "have to be careful" how we write such bills. In the video, you can see how uncomfortable he is. Around the same time, a lesbian met with Portman's staff about a job discrimination complaint and came away hopeful that he'd support ENDA. She doesn't really know what he'd do. Neither do we.
Portman says his longtime opposition to same-sex marriage "was rooted in my faith tradition." His critics, apparently baffled by religion, ignore this explanation. Instead, they depict his position as an emotional void, concluding that he "did not care about any of the country's gay people." According to my colleague Matthew Yglesias, "what Portman is telling us" is that "his previous position was driven by a lack of compassion and empathy."
This insensitivity, in the eyes of Portman's hecklers, explains conservative positions generally. What defines conservatism, they argue, is a "total absence of empathy," a "fundamental lack of compassion," and "an inability to give any weight to the perspective of the disadvantaged." As Yglesias puts it: "Rob Portman doesn't have a son with a pre-existing medical condition who's locked out of the health insurance market. Rob Portman doesn't have a son engaged in peasant agriculture whose livelihood is likely to be wiped out by climate change. Rob Portman doesn't have a son who'll be malnourished if SNAP benefits are cut. So Rob Portman doesn't care." The possibility that anyone might limit the food-stamp budget or the government's role in health care for reasons other than indifference--say, a belief in markets or in fiscal self-restraint--goes unmentioned.
The bigger this empathy critique gets--the more it reaches beyond Portman and his son toward a grand theory of the GOP--the less it's about empathy. At its core, empathy is one person's feeling for another. That's what gets lost in the political indictments. "Why must empathy among conservatives be tied so directly to their own personal interactions?" asks one writer. Another objects that Portman
"was only able to realize the error of his ways when his own flesh and blood bravely stood up and said 'Hey, you're talking about me too.' That's what it took. None of the studies, the rallies, the protests, the legal victories, the testimonials, the documentaries, articles, books, plays, movies, television shows or anything could sway him ... To me that indicates that there's a pretty thick wall separating his political convictions from the rest of the world."
Really? To me it just confirms that flesh-and-blood relationships are more powerful than studies, rallies, or documentaries. That isn't a conservative defect. It's human psychology. In academic circles, it's called contact theory. It's how President Obama explained his conversion on gay marriage last May: "Over the course of several years, as I talk to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are incredibly committed in monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together ..."
Where were all these critics then?
Portman, like Obama, initially resisted gay marriage on religious grounds. Like Obama, he took years to integrate his beliefs with his experience. "I wrestled with how to reconcile my Christian faith with my desire for Will to have the same opportunities to pursue happiness and fulfillment as his brother and sister," Portman writes. "Ultimately, it came down to the Bible's overarching themes of love and compassion and my belief that we are all children of God."
Some critics, contemptuous of religion, sneer at Portman for consulting scripture after his son's revelation. Others, unable or unwilling to see the son's effect on the father as moral, reduce their relationship to a cost-benefit transaction. Jonathan Chait likens Portman's shift to changing your position on the estate tax based on a "newly discovered self-interest" in your kids' inheritance. Paul Krugman, disappointed that Portman changed positions only after realizing that "his own family would benefit," laments the "cramped vision of altruism in which it's considered perfectly acceptable to support only those causes that are directly good for you and yours." But what's truly cramped is this sort of hyper-rational analysis, which misconstrues parental love as economic calculation.
Many of these writers--Yglesias, Chait, Krugman, Steve Benen, and others--are people I respect. When I try to understand their misperceptions of Portman, my best guess (which, to take my own point, could be wrong) is that they haven't experienced what Portman is going through. When your parents and peers are liberal, reaching liberal conclusions is no sweat. You don't support SNAP benefits because you know malnourished kids, any more than you support climate-change legislation because you know peasant farmers. It isn't empathy that leads you to these conclusions. It's inertia.
At its heart, Portman's story isn't about politicians or parties. It's about moms, dads, sons, and daughters. That's what Ari Ezra Waldman captures in his beautiful, perceptive essay in Towleroad. Waldman understands Portman's struggle because he has lived it. He came out to his mother at 21--not much older than Will Portman. "The reflection and evolution that changed the Portman family are the same changes and evolutions going on in countless families across the world right now, as more bright young men and women come out," Waldman writes. When parents "learn that their child or their friend is gay, they put a human face to the phenomenon and suddenly, being gay doesn't seem so strange." But absorbing this revelation takes time. For most parents, Waldman observes, the revelation "is just the beginning of a journey. It is a journey we can neither deny them nor rush for them. We can only support them and teach them along the way."
Rob Portman's journey, and ours, will take time. Be patient. Be welcoming. Be kind.


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TOKYO — Sony Corp. is recalling 440,000 Vaio laptop computers worldwide because of a wiring flaw that could cause overheating.
Sony said Thursday the recall involves 19 models in the Vaio TZ series manufactured between May 2007 and July 2008.
The Tokyo-based consumer electronics company said improperly placed wires near the hinge connecting the body of the laptop and its display could wear quickly, causing a short circuit and overheating. A flaw in a circuit board inside the display could also overheat its rim.
Sony has received 209 reports of overheating worldwide, including seven cases in which people received minor burns.
The laptop problem comes two years after Sony had to engage in massive recalls of laptop batteries, which also caused overheating or even burst into flames.
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NEA delegates re-elect leaders to stand strong for nation's students and public education
Dennis Van Roekel and Lily Eskelsen re-elected as president and vice president
CHICAGO - July 03, 2011 -
Facing unprecedented attacks on their rights and profession, thousands of National Education Association (NEA) members from across America today delivered a vote of confidence in their current leadership. Delegates to NEA's 90th Representative Assembly in Chicago re-elected President Dennis Van Roekel and Vice President Lily Eskelsen to continue to stand strong for the nation's students and public education. "I am honored by this vote of confidence from my colleagues, " said Van Roekel. "I am proud and grateful to have the opportunity to continue speaking up for students and public education on behalf of our members. We will continue the work already underway to stand strong to defeat efforts to silence the voices of educators and push back against harmful actions that undermine public education."
Nearly 9,000 educators from every state are attending NEA's Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly (RA) through July 5. The RA is the top decision-making body for the 3.2 million-member NEA. Delegates set Association policy and address issues facing schools, students and the teaching profession.
Van Roekel, a 25-year classroom veteran, is finishing his first term as NEA president. The math teacher from Paradise Valley High School in Phoenix, Ariz., has served in numerous key Association offices, including NEA vice president, secretary-treasurer, Arizona Education Association president, and Paradise Valley Education Association president.
NEA delegates also re-elected Lily Eskelsen as vice president. Eskelsen, an elementary school teacher from Utah, is finishing her first term as vice president. Previously, she served two terms as NEA secretary-treasurer. Eskelsen, who is Hispanic, is one of the highest-ranking labor leaders in the country.
"Now more than ever, as members and working families face political and economic challenges, we need to stand strong for our students, great public schools and America's middle class," said Eskelsen. "This vote sends a message that our leadership is going to continue to push hard on elected officials to stop catering to large corporate interests at the expense of our middle class and our nation's students."
NEA delegates also re-elected Princess Moss and elected Earl Wiman to the NEA Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is comprised of NEA's three executive officers and six members elected at large by delegates to the Representative Assembly. The Executive Committee is responsible for general policy and financial interests of NEA and acts for the NEA Board of Directors in between the board's four regularly scheduled meetings each year.
Princess Moss is an elementary school music teacher in Louisa County, Va. A champion of children and public education at the local, state, and national levels, Moss has had more than two decades of education experience. Before being elected to the NEA Executive Committee, she served two full terms as president of the 62,000-member Virginia Education Association.
A former kindergarten teacher, principal and media specialist now on special assignment for Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, Earl Wiman will begin serving his three-year term on the Executive Committee this July. For more than 30 years, Wiman has been an ardent advocate for teachers and education support staff. He is the past president of the 55,000-member Tennessee Education Association.
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Over months of investigating the proliferation of speed cameras in Maryland, many of The Baltimore Sun's attempts to get data and other information from government officials were met with delays, detours and dead ends.
Howard County, for example, refused to provide the license tag numbers of the vehicles that its cameras have nailed for speeding. By contrast, Baltimore, Baltimore County and the State Highway Administration — which fall under the same public-records law that Howard does — all provided tag numbers, even if it took some prodding and multiple attempts to get the correct figures.
Why the difference? Howard's lawyers said their hands were tied, and invoked a provision of state law that bars government from releasing speed camera photos. While The Sun's wasn't asking for the photos, the images happen to show a vehicle's license plate. So, the lawyers argued, the tag numbers themselves couldn't be released even as part an electronic database — and even though a car's tag doesn't identify its owner or reveal any personal information.
The Sun appealed, without success, to County Executive Ken Ulman's staff, noting that the county's lawyers were taking a more restrictive view than the attorney general's office, which represents the highway administration. The tag numbers were an important element for analyzing the programs: Without them, it was impossible to tally up repeat offenders, catalog how many school buses were ticketed or do other checks of the data.
Getting data from other jurisdictions presented other challenges. State highway officials had to ask the agency's contractor, Xerox State and Local Solutions Inc., to run the numbers three times. The first set was rife with thousands of errors. The second set omitted tickets for an entire half-year. In both cases, The Sun spotted the problems. The highway administration blamed a "translation error" when data was moved from one electronic format into an Excel spreadsheet.
Baltimore County initially balked at providing its own citation-level data. Officials there said the county did not need that to monitor the speed camera program, and so the data remained in possession of the county's contractor, also Xerox. When pressed, the county eventually said that Xerox, which has been paid more than $4 million for speed cameras by the county since 2010, would provide the data — but only at a cost of $1,500. And the county said The Sun would have to pick up that tab.
Xerox dropped the $1,500 demand after Don Mohler, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's chief of staff, called a company executive.
Then there is Baltimore City. Unlike other area governments, the city posts detailed citation data online. But because the information on the OpenBaltimore website doesn't include paid tickets that are more than a year old, The Sun asked the city for a complete citation record.
This spring the city provided detailed data on 736,000 speed camera citations and called it comprehensive. But just a few weeks later, a different arm of city government provided a chart that put the total at 1.1 million. It took months to get a clarification, which took the form of a new set of data showing the higher number had apparently been the right one.
That was only one issue that arose with the city. Much of the operation of the speed camera program was kept hidden from view: Officials wouldn't let The Sun observe the daily camera calibration done by Transportation Department employees. And while the city initially agreed to let a reporter visit Xerox's Montgomery Park office where citations are reviewed, it quickly canceled over "security" concerns.
The Police Department, meanwhile, would not allow its officers to be observed reviewing citations. That review is a legally required quality control measure that back-stops earlier reviews by the contractor and looks at things such as the clarity of the photo of a car's license tag. The department cited the change in police commissioners, though it wasn't clear how that might affect the day-to-day speed camera review process.
The Maryland State Police allowed The Sun to observe troopers checking highway work zone citations at a facility in Linthicum Heights. Senior Trooper Earl Beatty patiently explained in detail how he scrutinizes each ticket before clicking "approve" or "disapprove" on his computer.
Beatty also discussed some actual cases he had before him. That is, until a state police spokesman interrupted and made him stop, saying that went beyond what the spokesman thought had been agreed to before The Sun's visit.


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Far from the skipping ropes, pokemon cards and other activities of the playgrounds all over the world, the new trend at the SDC is the Capoeira!
Short reminder for those who might have missed the phenomenon:
According to Wikipedia®, "Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that would find its roots in the methods of warfare and in the dances of the African people of the time of slavery in Brazil." In reality, capoeira is a sport that combines dance, rhythmic movements and combat, and it is a way for our the SDC children to have fun and especially to unwind!
On alternate Thursdays, two volunteer teachers come to teach the art of capoeira to young during sessions of one hour and a half. Prof and Kit, owners of Mandala centering place in Bacolod therefore offer their time to mentor twenty children and introduce them to the practice.
In addition to capoeira lessons, Prof, whose capoeirista name is "Contra Mestre Parabolica" shares a few minutes at the end of each session to give kids a lesson in good manners, for example, reminding them why it is essential to have good hygiene or the importance of respecting the adults who supervise them at the SDC.
Since the launching of the activity at the beginning of 2014, children have shown a real interest in capoeira and invest heavily during each session in order to progress.
Periodically, competitions are organized to motivate the kids who now even practice by themselves in the dorms!
On November 15th, the Mandala centering place was the scene of a major event, an important gathering of capoeiristas who came straight from Brazil, Malaysia and Singapore. This day was an opportunity for teachers to reward capoeiristas students by the rise in rank. Capoeira grades are represented by ropes of different colors depending on the level.
Joel, a children of the SDC who had already distinguished himself as being particularly good at capoeira in recent competitions at the center was invited to attend this event. While he was initially supposed to simply join the group, Joel was finally rewarded by "Contra Mestre Parabolica" who gave him his first grade: yellow and white rope! Joel then got back to the center after a day full of emotions with his rope and his new outfit of capoeirista offered by Prof!
Can you imagine a professionnal capoeirista coming from the SDC?
|Joel with his godfather of capoeira!