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Netherlands vs USA: Date, time, LIVE TV FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 FREE streaming
The Netherlands and the United States will face each other for the knockout stages of the Qatar 2022 World Cup. On the one hand, the journey of the Dutch team in the World Cup started with an important victory against Senegal (2-0), then drew against Ecuador (1-1) and, on the last date, won 2-0 against the host Qatar. The "Clockwork Orange" finished in the first position of Group A with seven units.
Instead, the United States finished second in Group B with five points after drawing against Wales (1-1) and England (0-0) and beating Iran 1-0 on matchday three.
Considering how both teams reach the 22nd edition of the World Cup, the Netherlands, managed by Louis van Gaal, is ranked number eight in the FIFA ranking and is their eleventh World Cup competition.
After marking one of the most notorious absences in Russia in 2018, "A Clockwork Orange" returns to Qatar 2022 with the desire for prominence and the fresh antecedent of South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014, editions in which it did not fall below the semifinals.
The Netherlands always surpassed the first World Cup phase in its ten previous participants and among its best results are the finals reached in Germany '74, Argentina '78 and South Africa 2010, which lost to the selected hosts in the first two cases and against Spain in the rest.
Liverpool center-back Virgil van Dijk, 31, is his undisputed figure. With eight seasons in the Premier League, the captain has been part of the elite of world football since 2019 when he has crowned the Champions League and finished second, behind Lionel Messi, in the voting for the Ballon d'Or and the FIFA The Best award.
In addition, he has in defense other players of the hierarchy such as Denzel Dumfries and Stefan de Vrij (Inter), Matthijs de Ligt (Bayern Munich), Nathan Aké (Manchester City), and Daley Blind (Ajax).
In midfield, his main card is the distinguished Frenkie de Jong and, upfront, is Memphis Depay, both Barcelona players.
Another highlight is Eredivisie PSV striker Cody Gakpo, who scored three goals in group-stage matches against Senegal, Ecuador, and Qatar.
In contrast, the United States, led by Gregg Berhalter, is ranked 16th in the FIFA ranking and Qatar 2022 is its eleventh World Cup competition.
The coach's 26-man roster is the U.S. team's second-youngest roster at a World Cup, with an average age of 25 years and 175 days, at the time of the World Cup opener against Wales on Nov. 21. Only the 1990 team at 24 years and 24 days old was younger.
Chelsea striker Christian Pulisic and Juventus midfielders Weston McKennie; from Borussia Dortmund, Giovanni Reyna; and Leeds United, Tyler Adams, are some of the figures that make up the final roster of the United States to play the next World Cup.
A peculiarity is that among the strikers appears Tim Weah, son of the former Liberian star and scorer George Weah – today president of that African country – and who could never play a World Cup despite having been one of the most lethal gunners of European football in the 90s.
In this way, the Netherlands and the United States will face each other in Qatar in 2022. The particularity of this meeting is that it will be the first time they will face each other in a World Cup.
When and at what time the Netherlands vs United States play in the Qatar 2022 World Cup
Date: Saturday, December 3
Time: 12:00 (Argentina time)
Stadium: Khalifa International
Which channel passes Netherlands vs. United States live on TV
The match can be seen live from Argentina on TV Pública and DirecTV Sports.
How to watch FREE Netherlands vs. United States live online at the Qatar 2022 World Cup
The public channel will broadcast live, free of charge throughout the country, half of the World Cup games (32), complemented by Tyc Sports Play, which will offer the other 50%. It can also be seen through platforms such as Flow, DirecTV Go and Telecentro Play, with the requirement of being subscribed to cable operators.
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The William Thompson Documents. There's no whistle to blow.
For those unfamiliar with the story of William Thompson, here's a brief introduction. William Thompson is a CDC researcher who has worked on vaccine/autism studies. About 2 years ago he approached Brian Hooker (an autism parent and very vocal advocate for the idea that vaccines cause autism) stating that a statistically significant result was not only left out of an old study but that this represented not a scientific decision, but misconduct on the part of the CDC. It is worth noting that "statistically significant" is not the same as "proof of a connection". Brian Hooker published his own analysis (incorrectly claimed as being the same as the CDC analysis method) in a now retracted paper. The result he presented was that there was an apparent increased risk of autism for one small subset of the study population: African American males, who were vaccinated not on schedule but before age 3.
There are some questions, of course, that this raises. Is this result very strong? Does the lack of inclusion in the paper represent scientific fraud or a legitimate scientific decision?
A few epidemiologists and other scientists have chimed in (for example here, here and here) and stated that the result was very likely spurious and that Hooker's approach is somewhat flawed and definitely overplayed.
In fact, Brian Hooker's paper was more of a publicity event than a scientific inquiry. When the paper was published, Brian Hooker and Andrew Wakefield released a video. It is difficult to describe just how bad this video was but here are a two examples. Wakefield tried to put forth the inflammatory claim that the CDC's vaccine program was a new Tuskegee experiment. Which is to say that the CDC are intentionally allowing African Americans to become autistic due to vaccines as part of some sort of study. Second, according to Andrew Wakefield, the CDC team is so evil that they are worse than Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin. =Mr Wakefield's logic being that those dictators were sincere and the CDC team were not. No, really, Hitler was sincere per Wakefield.
In a series of phone calls between Thompson and Hooker (secretly taped by Hooker and released without Thompson's permission), we find that Thompson was very interested in testifying before congress. It turns out that William Thompson kept much (if not all) of the paperwork involved in this study and, probably at least in part motivated by the hope for a hearing, passed these along to a member of Congress: Bill Posey. It has been claimed that this cache of documents numbers as many as 100,000 pages. Many have hoped that these documents will expose fraud by the CDC. (They don't)
Congressman Posey released the documents to a journalist recently and, given that they are now in the public domain, Dorit Reiss and I requested that they be made available to us as well. Mr. Posey's office graciously granted our request and I have spent some time going through them.
For those hoping for an exciting look into CDC malfeasance, sorry to disappoint you. Not only is it not present here, but these documents are very mundane and repetitive. Many people seem to think there will be evidence that the CDC are covering up. No "Vaccines cause autism! How do we cover this up". Nothing like it. Wakefield and Hooker have already cherry picked–and misrepresented–whatever they could to "best" make their case.
For more introduction, I point you to these articles as a start:
MMR, the CDC and Brian Hooker: A Guide for Parents and the Media
Did a high ranking whistleblower really reveal that the CDC covered up proof that vaccines cause autism in African-American boys?
The "CDC whistleblower saga": Updates, backlash, and (I hope) a wrap-up
Brian Hooker and Andrew Wakefield accuse the CDC of scientific fraud. Irony meters everywhere explode.
Given that long introduction, what is in the documents? Well, there's about 1000 pages, not the claimed 100,000. Documents provided by Mr. Thompson and, also, documents that submitted as part of the complaint that Wakefield and Hooker filed with HHS were included in the zip file. Which is convenient as I had submitted a FOIA request for those.
There are multiple drafts of the analysis plan. Analysis Plan is the same thing as the "protocol" that Wakefield and Hooker claim was changed after the first race data were analyzed. And the fact that we have the revisions gives us the chance to check two of the fundamental claims behind the Wakefield/Hooker "fraud" charge against CDC. (1) Did the CDC plan to look at race as an exposure variable? Wakefield and Hooker are claiming (although they use different words) this is what the CDC was doing. This is different from using race as a control variable. (2) Did CDC add the birth certificate analysis after the first race analysis was done, in order to dilute the effect?
No. Very clearly no. I've covered (2) already based on information Wakefield and Hooker made available. The final analysis plan was dated Sept.5, the first race analysis wasn't until late October or early November. And we see the same in these documents.
But now we have new information that answers (1). Here is what appears to be the first draft of the analysis plan. And here is a capture of a very important part:
Note that this draft analysis plan is from April 3, 2001. Well before the final version, the "protocol", which was September 5. More importantly, this is a long time before a race analysis was started. But even more, notice how there's an annotation "I would include race as a covariate, not as an exposure variable." That's critical–they decided against using race as an exposure variable from the start. Before they did a race analysis. Another point: they were already planning on using birth certificate data right from the start.
William Thompson certainly should have known this, it's very probable that he did know this. Wakefield and Hooker likely knew this. They showed documents from this collection in their video and elsewhere. But they told us the opposite.
Whether they knew or not, they were wrong. Wildly irresponsibly wrong.
Ever wonder why they didn't make documents public? We can't tell if Hooker and Wakefield had all the Thompson documents, but we know they had some. While they cry out for transparency, they were carefully guarding information in order to craft the story they wanted told. The full documents tell a different story.
Let me put this more simply: if Wakefield and Hooker worked for me they would be fired for just their handling of the Thompson story (of course, they would have been fired years ago for many other causes, but promoting this sort of misinformation is simply wrong.)
Also in that same directory appears to be the first draft of the paper (A000071.PDF), with William Thompson as first author. I find it interesting that Thompson is first author there as later it would be Frank DeStefano who would be first author of the published study.
There are also meeting notes. Lots of meeting notes. Here's the first batch, as near as I can tell. Meetings were held every month or two.
Now is a good time to address the "garbage can" quote. Congressman Posey read a statement from William Thompson into the congressional record. Emily Willingham discussed this in A Congressman, A CDC Whisteblower And An Autism Tempest In A Trashcan. On the other side, here's an article by Jon Rappoport Bombshell: CDC destroyed vaccine documents, Congressman reveals Bombshell: CDC destroyed vaccine documents, Congressman reveals; CDC whistleblower case is back.
Here's the thing–there's zero "bombshell" involved in putting these documents into a confidential bin for shredding/recycling. There's no reason to keep all these revisions of the analysis plan, all these meeting notes, all this redundant material. I hope people at CDC are not keeping all this paper. Beyond that, the rules are that they have to keep enough information to recreate the study. Aside from the fact that all these meeting notes are not required for that, Brian Hooker proved that requirement was met when he claimed to have done exactly that–recreated the study.
Mr. Thompson also provided a file with ALL Agendas for mmr autism meetings with written interpretation. Which is to say Thompson added his own annotations (purple pen) to the agendas.
Here's an example of his annotations. And a great example of trying to make data fit a story. Thompson appears to be trying to support the idea that the CDC team changed the protocol to include the birth certificate analysis in response to analyzing the race data:
The implication that the race analysis and had somehow influenced the final protocol (as Wakefield and Hooker have claimed and this comment appears to support) is just plain wrong. First, as we have already seen, the birth certificate analysis was included from first draft of the analysis plan, in April 2001. That's four months before this meeting note. Second, the so-called "race effect" isn't seen in this meeting note. In fact, we see the opposite: "not statistically associated with case/control variable".
From the phone conversations between Brian Hooker and William Thompson (secretly taped by Hooker), we have found that Thompson was very interested in participating in a congressional hearing. Hooker and his colleagues had been involved in arranging a previous congressional hearing on autism. Frankly it appears to me as though Thompson was involved in a bit of a quid pro quo: Thompson coaching Hooker in ways to spread fear about vaccines in exchange for a chance to be involved in a hearing. Which begs the question: why no hearing based on all that Thompson has laid out?
In case it isn't already abundantly clear: there's no hearing because there is no reason for a hearing. There's no evidence of fraud. Many of the reasons given by Wakefield and Hooker to call this fraud are, well, just flat out wrong. Contradicted by the evidence. For those hoping that Thompson's personal notes would show some evidence of a cover up, here they are mmr autism study 2001-2002 hand written notes.
Ah, one will say, what about the finding of an association between the MMR and autism for African American boys vaccinated late (between 18 months and 36 months)? Why wasn't that included in the published paper or public presentations? The reasons given by Thompson/Hooker/Wakefield don't hold water as I've shown. So, what was the scientific reason for not including this result in the paper? Many online writers have discussed how weak this result is; how it is a spurious result. But I'd like to know the reasoning at the time behind the CDC decision to leave this out. As a community member–an autism parent–I'd like to see all the results and understand the reasons why certain results are spurious. Of course it is easy to say now, but leaving this out of the public's eye was a mistake. It gave Thompson, Hooker and Wakefield the chance to cherry pick, hide information and craft a story that has been very damaging to the autism communities and to public health.
The first thing I did when I heard about this story was email a few epidemiologists I know and point this story out and ask them if they had the data to address the question raised. I no longer feel this way. Why should the autism communities spend precious funds and researcher time every time Andrew Wakefield (Time Magazine's #1 on their list of great science frauds) comes up with a new story? Especially now that we know the story was built on lies. But consider this: Wakefield and Hooker have not been calling for more research. Instead they are calling for a congressional hearing. If you watched any part of the previous hearings you know they are political theater and have done nothing (NOTHING) to help make a better life for autistics. They have done nothing except provide video and blog fodder for those promoting the failed idea that vaccines cause autism.
Also, consider this: before Thompson Wakefield and Hooker didn't talk about the issues of racial/ethnic minorities. For the most part, the entire "autism is caused by vaccines" community have ignored minority communities. Why? Because they are a clear example that the vaccine hypothesis is a failure. Prevalence estimates for racial/ethnic minority groups have been typically much lower than for Caucasians (Hispanics are diagnosed at a rate of 1/3 that of Caucasians in California. And this has been consistent for over 10 years.) This presents a huge problem for the likes of Hooker and Wakefield. If vaccines are a major cause of autism, why do minority groups have such low prevalences? If they were honest about their own beliefs, they would be calling for a study into the "protective" effect for minorities. But they don't. More importantly, if they were real autism advocates they would be calling for better diagnosis, better awareness, better services for these under served communities. Instead they have just ignored these minority communities. That is, until they could use them as part of their campaign against vaccines.
And they still aren't calling for better services better diagnosis in these underserved groups. Instead they are just trying to recruit as many parents as they into the vaccines-cause-autism camp. Imagine being convinced, wrongly, that you participated in injuring your own child. The charlatans who prey on our community with fake–and sometimes abusive–therapies rely on the vaccine/autism idea for the majority of their business.
The vaccines-cause-autism story is built on lies and it is very damaging. There has been nothing since the Kanner/Bettleheim "refrigerator parent" idea that has caused so much damage to our community. And that is the real story here. A group of people perpetuating a failed idea by carefully crafting a story.
The Zip file provided to me by Representative Posey's office is at this DropBox link
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jxtr06s5ddc82s7/AADaZvp7yu_daBhbuZwMfQy4a?dl=0
Again, I am grateful to Representative Posey and his staff for providing these files to me.
By Matt Carey
Categories Autism, CDC Whistleblower, Legal, Matt Carey, Measles, MMR, Vaccines, William Thompson
Author Sullivan (Matt Carey)
Mr. Kennedy, if you know the science, why did you claim that the MMR vaccine contains mercury?
Robert Kennedy (son of Robert F. Kennedy) has been focused on reducing mercury exposure for some time. His advocacy against mercury led him to focus on vaccines (infant vaccines used to contain a mercury compound as a preservative). And, the main argument against mercury in vaccines is the (now totally failed) idea that mercury in vaccines causes autism.
It's important to keep that autism is not his priority. It's his tool to allege dangers of vaccines. He's not out to help us out, but instead to use us to help him.
Add to this that he's a lawyer, not a scientist and he's from a very political family. Three are lawyers and politicians actually understand science. Mr Kennedy claims he is in that number (he's "rabidly pro-science"), but in reality he either doesn't understand the science or the facts are just be a political tool for him.
That Mr. Kennedy feels the need to instill in us the message that he understands science may stem from the fact that his first attempt at discussing autism and vaccines met with disaster. He published an article "deadly immunity" (because, you know, very pro-vaccine people use terms like "deadly immunity" to discuss vaccines, right?). This article was published both in Rolling Stone and Salon.com. In Salon's Correcting our record, We've removed an explosive 2005 report by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about autism and vaccines. Here's why we read:
In 2005, Salon published online an exclusive story by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that offered an explosive premise: that the mercury-based thimerosal compound present in vaccines until 2001 was dangerous, and that he was "convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real."
The piece was co-published with Rolling Stone magazine — they fact-checked it and published it in print; we posted it online. In the days after running "Deadly Immunity," we amended the story with five corrections (which can still be found logged here) that went far in undermining Kennedy's exposé. At the time, we felt that correcting the piece — and keeping it on the site, in the spirit of transparency — was the best way to operate. But subsequent critics, including most recently, Seth Mnookin in his book "The Panic Virus," further eroded any faith we had in the story's value. We've grown to believe the best reader service is to delete the piece entirely.
"I regret we didn't move on this more quickly, as evidence continued to emerge debunking the vaccines and autism link," says former Salon editor in chief Joan Walsh, now editor at large. "But continued revelations of the flaws and even fraud tainting the science behind the connection make taking down the story the right thing to do." The story's original URL now links to our autism topics page, which we believe now offers a strong record of clear thinking and skeptical coverage we're proud of — including the critical pursuit of others who continue to propagate the debunked, and dangerous, autism-vaccine link.
"…critical pursuit of others who continue to propagate the debunked, and dangerous, autism-vaccine link". Not exactly a ringing endorsement of Mr. Kennedy's approach nor the "science" he still promotes.
One take a moment here to discuss Mr. Kennedy's strong record of advocating for real changes that would benefit autistics. Or we could if there were such a record. Again, we aren't his focus. We are his tool.
So, given this long introduction, what about the claim that that the MMR vaccine contains mercury? It is in this video Mr. Kennedy produced recently. And while it may seem like a small thing, it is a clear example of misunderstanding or ignoring simple facts in order to support his argument that mercury in vaccines cause autism. Mr. Kennedy is jumping on the controversy that Brian Hooker and Andrew Wakefield tried to make last year about the MMR vaccine.
Now for those who have a basic understanding of the science, one will immediately wonder, "why is Kennedy latching on to this MMR story when there is no mercury in the MMR vaccine?" Not only does the MMR vaccine not contain mercury, it can't contain mercury. The MMR vaccine is a live virus vaccine. Mercury is a preservative; it's specific purpose is to kill bacteria (mostly) and viruses.
Let's leave out the other huge warning flags here–such as the current MMR controversy Wakefield and Hooker tried to create is based on a huge amount of misrepresentations. Let's ignore that and ask, surely Mr. Kennedy wouldn't claim that the MMR vaccine contains mercury, right? Because that would mean either he doesn't care about the facts or doesn't understand the facts. It would suggest that sticking to very simple facts is taking back seat to political advocacy.
Why care, one might ask? Politicians have been ignoring facts for millennia. I care beause of the harm Mr. Kennedy brings to my community. I care because he is be scaring parents, especially African American parents, needlessly and convincing them to avoid a vaccine which prevents three very serious diseases. But more, he's instilling in a new community the guilt and shame that comes with belief in the vaccines-cause-autism idea.
Given that long intro, here's the video where Mr. Kennedy sends out his message to the African American community:
You can jump right to the point I'm discussing (6:45 into the video).
"…it proved that these vaccines, these mercury containing vaccines particularly, were causing autism"
When he's talking about the William Thompson story, he's talking about this study, Age at first measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in children with autism and school-matched control subjects: a population-based study in metropolitan atlanta. He's talking about the MMR vaccine.
Again, the MMR doesn't contain mercury. Never has. In fact, it can't. And there's no good reason why after all these years why Mr. Kennedy would not know this. In his book "Thimerosal, let the science speak", Mr. Kennedy on two occasions ( and ) notes that the MMR vaccine does not contain mercury.
Again, this may seem like a small thing–he got this fact wrong. So what?
There was a time when I thought that the leaders of the movements that promote the idea that vaccines cause autism were just misguided. Probably good, decent people who somehow got themselves to believe wrong ideas. It's not that hard to believe in something false, and just because you are wrong doesn't mean you are lying.
Well, in my opinion, that doesn't describe Mr. Kennedy. And as I've noted, the consequences for my community are huge. And I don't appreciate Mr. Kennedy what appears to be Mr. Kennedy using us as his tool.
Categories Autism, Brian Hooker, Matt Carey, Mercury, MMR, Robert Kennedy, Thimerosal, Vaccines, William Thompson
Online discussions discussing the recent CDC data "reanalysis" story
Educator/writer Liz Ditz often keeps a running summary of online discussions of trending topics. Below are some of her links. They are a few days old, but this gives you a starting place in case you wish to read multiple sources.
Posts discussing Hooker's allegations, excluding anti-vaccine sources .
August 8, 2014: Hooker paper published online
August 18, 2014: Focus Autism Press Release published online
August 18, 2014: Andrew Wakefield's Autism Media Channel Video Alleging a CDC Whistleblower published online
August 22, 2014: Andrew Wakefield's Autism Media Channel Video Naming William W. Thompson as "The CDC Whistleblower " published online
August 22, 2014, Orac Knows at Respectful Insolence: Brian Hooker proves Andrew Wakefield wrong about vaccines and autism
Of course, the key finding in Brian Hooker's paper is that Wakefield was wrong. Indeed, in this video, Wakefield even admits that he was mostly wrong about MMR and autism. Let that sink in again. He admits that he was mostly wrong about MMR and autism. OK, he says we were "partially right," but the flip side of that is that he must have been mostly wrong.
August 22, 2014, Reuben Gaines at The Poxes Blog: Andrew Jeremy Wakefield plays video director while African-American Babies die, or something
Hooker is wrong in his assertions because the DeStefano paper did not leave out African-American children on purpose. Children were excluded from the analysis because of very legitimate and scientific reasons. They either were not the right age, did not have autism but some other neurodevelopment disorder, or were born outside of Georgia. Even if they were tossed into the analysis, DeStefano et al used a statistical analysis that took into account things like birth weight and mother's age when analysing the data. They wanted to make sure that what they were seeing was most likely because of the MMR vaccine and not because of some other factor associated with autism.
August 23, 2014, Ren at Epidemiological: Directed Acyclic Graphs and the MMR vaccine doesn't cause autism.
I'm very skeptical that Dr. Hooker's simplified statistical approach can be better than DeStefano et al's approach of conditional logistic regression. Conditional logistic regression has the advantage of being able to control for a multitude of confounders and effect modifiers.
August 24, 2014, Liz Ditz at I Speak of Dreams: L'affaire CDC-MMR: Hooker, Wakefield, and Focus Autism Accuse African-American Senior CDC Researcher of Being A Race Traitor
According to Hooker, Wakefield, and Focus Autism, a respected senior African-American physician-researcher is a race traitor and a mass murderer.
August 25, 2014, Orac Knows at Respectful Insolence: The central conspiracy theory of the antivaccine movement
I can imagine three main possibilities for what happened. The first possibility from what I know is that Thompson had some sort of disagreement with his co-investigators, made the incredibly stupid—yes, stupid—decision to unburden himself to Brian Hooker, who, he must have known or should have known, is an antivaccine crank associated with Andrew Wakefield, and is now paying the price for that decision… The second possibility is that Thompson wanted to correct something Hooker was doing with the data and somehow let himself be drawn into saying things that could easily be taken out of context. The third, and (I hope) much less likely, possibility is that Thompson's gone off the deep end and gone antivaccine.
August 25,2014, David Gorski MD at Science Based Medicine: Did a high ranking whistleblower really reveal that the CDC covered up proof that vaccines cause autism in African-American boys?
"What [Hooker] has done, apparently, is found grist for a perfect conspiracy theory to demonize the CDC, play the race card in a truly despicable fashion, and cast fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the CDC vaccination program, knowing that most of the white antivaccine activists who support hate the CDC so much that they won't notice that even Hooker's reanalysis doesn't support their belief that vaccines caused the autism in their children. Meanwhile, there is no evidence, at least none, submitted by the antivaccine propagandists flogging this conspiracy theory, that there really was a CDC conspiracy to hide anything.
August 25, 2014, ToddW at Harpocrates Speaks, Andrew Wakefield Tortures History
I want to focus on some statements made by one Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who committed scientific fraud, resulting in the full retraction of his 1998 case series study on MMR and the stripping of his medical license. Wakefield boldly added himself to the list of not only torturing science, but now adds to his accomplishments torturing history and ethics (granted, we already knew he was ethically challenged). You see, in his videos (here and here) about the alleged "whistleblower", William Thompson,Wakefield compared the purported "cover-up" to the Tuskegee syphilis debacle. It's a false comparison used simply to inflame people and claim the race card.
August 25, 2014, Michael Simpson at Skeptical Raptor, Great CDC Coverup–suppressing evidence that MMR vaccines cause autism? cross-posted at at Daily Kos
It's clear what's happening here. Thompson, through sheer ignorance or total incompetence may have had a conversation with Hooker. Given the fact that the antivaccination gang lacks any serious scientific evidence supporting their dogma that vaccines cause autism, they jump on anything, however tenuous, that makes it appear that all of the evidence that refutes their dogma should be thrown in the garbage.
August 26, 2014, Orac Knows at Respectful Insolence: Hey, where is everybody? The "CDC whistleblower" manufactroversy continues apace
Here it is, Tuesday already, and the antivaccine underground is still on full mental jacket alert over the biggest story the antivaccine movement has seen in a while. Fortunately, it's a story that's been largely ignored by the mainstream media, which tells me that maybe, just maybe, the mainstream media has figured out that it shouldn't give undue credence to cranks.
August 26 2014, Sullivan (Matt Carey) at LeftBrainRightBrain Autism, Atlanta, MMR: serious questions and also how Brian Hooker and Andrew Wakefield are causing damage to the autism communties
A study relying largely on a small group of subjects (about 20) with the conclusion that more work is needed. Sounds vaguely familiar. And, as we will see, Mr. Hooker has teamed up with Andrew Wakefield to put out a video where they jump past the whole this indicates more research is needed through this is absolute evidence of MMR causing autism directly to the CDC are engaging in a racist experiment sacrificing children to autism. It's like the events around Mr. Wakefield's 1997 Lancet paper cranked up to 11.
August 26 2014,Lisa Lightner at Grounded Parents: the CDC vaccines/autism/coverup theory {spoiler alert-it's not true!}
a friend, a friend that I consider to be intelligent and reasonable….first posted a link to a CNN article. Correction–it's iCNN…which is VERY different. ANYONE can post ANYTHING there. You can, really. It's a crowdsourcing platform. Shame on you CNN for whoring out your name for page views. Because this is what happens–people will post just about anything…..
I wish we knew the causes of autism, I really do. But vaccines ain't it.
Fear sells, don't buy it.
August 26, 2014, Reuben Gaines at The Poxes Blog: How to end a scientist's career with some fancy editing
As much as the anti-vaccine activists have been demanding that Dr. Thompson come out into the open and make some sort of a statement, no one seems to demand that Andrew Jeremy Wakefield and his team publish the entire recorded conversation between Brian Hooker and Dr. Thompson. All we get are lies and innuendo. We have operatives like Ginger Taylor writing on Twitter that CDC deliberately didn't look at birth certificates for African-American babies in the DeStefano study.
August 26, 2014: Anti-Vaccine Group The Thinking Mom's Revolution Hosts a #CDCWhistleblower Twitter Party
August 27, 2014 Karoli Kuns at Crooks and Liars: Rob Schneider's Anti-Vax Crusade Now Enters Alex Jones Territory
There's nothing like a good conspiracy theory to get the creative juices flowing. For actor Rob Schneider, that means getting your dander up over your incorrect belief that the CDC altered data to bury the "fact" that MMR causes autism.
August 27 2014, Sullivan (Matt Carey) at LeftBrainRightBrain Autism: Discussions of the recent MMR/autism paper (and why the study isn't what the author wants you to believe it is)
Below are a selected list of discussions about Brian Hooker's recent paper and the highly irresponsible way he and his team are promoting it. Let me know if you spot one I should add to the list.
August 27, 2014, Orac Knows at Respectful Insolence: The CDC "whistleblower" manufactroversy: Twitter parties and another "bombshell" e-mail
… just how desperate the antivaccine movement is to have Brian Hooker's incompetent "reanalysis" of a ten year old vaccine safety study and Andrew Wakefield's despicable race-baiting video gain traction in the mainstream media. The failure of this conspiracy theory to do so is driving antivaccine activists into ever-greater fits of lunacy online.
August 27, 2014, Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy, Slate: No, There Still Is No Connection Between Vaccines and Autism
There's a conspiracy theory going around that the CDC covered up a link between autism and vaccines. From what I can tell, this conspiracy theory is on the same level as the one that NASA faked the Moon landings. And you know how I feel about that.
August 27, 2014, ToddW at Harpocrates Speaks, Anti-vaccine Activists Throw Twitter Tantrum
… the hashtag #CDCwhistleblower to do what really amounted to the social media equivalent of a temper tantrum, whining about how the mainstream media is not reporting on the study. It was really a sad display, as they simply all copied and pasted from the same list of talking points, not even adding their own interpretation.
August 27, 2014, in the morning: The Journal Translational Neurodegeneration removes Hooker's paper from the public domain
August 27 2014, Sullivan (Matt Carey) at LeftBrainRightBrain Autism:The Brian Hooker article "…has been removed from the public domain because of serious concerns about the validity of its conclusions"
August 27, 2014, Adam Marcus at Retraction Watch: Journal takes down autism-vaccine paper pending investigation
An article purporting to find that black children are at substantially increased risk for autism after early exposure to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine has been shelved, amid claims that a CDC whistleblower has accused health officials of suppressing information about the link.
August 27, 2014, Reuben Gaines at The Poxes Blog: Even the bottom-feeding journals seem to have some sense
'm still left wondering how this paper got through peer review, or who did the peer review. They seem to not have bothered with checking the biostatistics or with looking back at the DeStefano paper.
August 27, 2014, at approximately 2:30 pm, PDT, attorneys for William W. Thompson, the CDC employee, publish Thompson's statement
August 27, 2014: Ren at Epidemiological Dr. Brian S. Hooker gets the Andrew Wakefield treatment.
My problem with Dr. Thompson's statement is that the data were not omitted willy-nilly. There was a protocol that was established, and it excluded from the analysis children of different ethnicities, not just African Americans. In that exclusion, a vaccine-autism signal that was confounded by different factors was lost. It wasn't lost out of bias but out of properly adjusting for different factors.
August 28, 2014, Sullivan at LeftbrainRightBrain Andrew Wakefield betrays another "whistleblower" with Brian Hooker helping
Apparently Mr. Hooker is unaware that the secrecy of confession is absolute. Priests, real ones, not self appointed ones like Mr. Hooker, have been known to go to jail rather than divulge what they've been told in confession. Real priests don't record confessions so they can betray another.
August 28, 2014, Debra Goldschmidt, CNN, Journal questions validity of autism and vaccine study
Dr. Frank DeStefano, lead author of the 2004 study, said he and his colleagues stand by their findings. DeStefano said all the study authors, including Thompson, agreed on the analysis and interpretation before the study was submitted for publication 10 years ago. However, he said he plans to review his notes and will decide whether to run another analysis on the data.
August 28, 2014, Reuben Gaines at The Poxes Blog, Autism is not death, unless you want it to be
While the black ribbon can mean different things to different people, it's main use is for grieving or remembering the fallen, the dead. The way that these people have used it is to try to bring attention to their cause by equating autism with a death or a loss.
August 28, 2014, Orac at Respectful Insolence A bad day for antivaccinationists: A possible retraction, and the "CDC whistleblower" issues a statement
Betrayals within betrayals. This can't all be laid on Wakefield. Thompson was played. Big time.
Posts discussing Hooker's allegations from anti-vaccine sources and those believing Hooker's allegations .
August 18, 2014, Jake Crosby at Autism Investigated: CDC Whistleblower Reveals Yet More Research Fraud
August 19, 2014 Age of Autism at Age of Autism: Whistleblower Says CDC Knew in 2003 of Higher Autism Rate Among African-American Boys Receiving MMR Shot Earlier Than 36 Months
August 20, 2014, Mike Adams at Natural News: Vaccine bombshell: CDC whistleblower reveals cover-up linking MMR vaccines to autism in African-Americans
August 20, 2014, Age of Autism at Age of Autism: Senior Government Scientist Breaks 13 Years' Silence on CDC's Vaccine-autism Fraud
August 20, 2014 Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog Breaking: Breaking: MMR vaccine, autism, CDC coverup
August 21, 2014 Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog: Vaccine-autism connection: US Congressman stonewalled by the CDC
August 21, 2014 Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog: Advice for the secret CDC vaccine whistleblower
August 21, 2014: Mike Adams at Natural News: CDC refuses to turn over documents to Congress: Evidence linking MMR vaccines to autism intentionally withheld from investigators
August 22, 2014, Ethan Huff at Natural News, CDC whistleblower confesses to publishing fraudulent data to obfuscate link between vaccines and autism
August 22, 2014, metamars at My Firedog Lake: CDC refuses to turn over documents to Congress showing MMR vaccines caused autism in black children (note: metamars' blog post, not an official Firedoglake post)
August 22, 2014 Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog: CDC whistleblower revealed: William Thompson
August 22, 2014 Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog: What CDC whistleblower William Thompson needs to do now
August 22, 2014 Jon Rappaport at Jon Rappaport's Blog Breaking: CDC whistleblower Thompson in grave danger now
August 22, 2014, at TMR at Thinking Moms' Revolution: CDC Whistleblower William Thompson Blows the Lid on Malfeasance and Fraud at the CDC
August 22, 2014, Jake Crosby at Autism Investigated, Andrew Wakefield Betrays CDC Whistleblower
August 23, 2014, Inquisitr CDC Whistleblower's Claims Cause Uproar In Autism Community
August 24, 2014 Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog CNN iReport on CDC whistleblower spreads like wildfire, then censored
August 24, 2014, Jon Rappaport at Jon Rappaport's Blog Rob Schneider says he has smoking gun on CDC vaccine-autism fraud (For beginners: Rob Schneider is an actor who has in the last few years become an anti-vaccine activist. Why he would have access to sensitive information is an open question.)
August 24, 2014, Sally Colletti, Examiner: Autism and The CDC: Now What?
August 25, 2014, Kent Heckenlively, Age of Autism: A Break in the Wall – William W. Thompson
August 25, 2014, Ethan Huff at Natural News: CDC whistleblower exposes massive autism cover-up perpetrated by government agency
August 25, 2014, Mike Adams at Natural News: CDC whistleblower's secret letter to Gerberding released by Natural News as mainstream media desperately censors explosive story
August 25, 2014, Mike Adams at Natural News CNN caught red handed covering up CDC medical genocide of African-American babies (much handwaving over open-source reports at iCNN being changed or deleted.)
August 25, 2014, Zorro at Thinking Moms' Revolution: Stop Calling Us Crazy: Autism, MMR, and Institutional Gaslighting
August 25, 2014, Megan Heimer at Living Whole CDC Whistleblower Comes Out and They All Play Dead
August 25, 2014, Age of Autism at Age of Autism: Rob Schneider Demands Answers on CDC MMR Fraud
August 25, 2014, Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog CDC vaccine-autism fraud: what victory looks like
August 25, 2014, Jon Rappoport at Activist Post: CDC whistleblower, watch out; here come the mothers
August 25, 2014, Kelly Brogan at Kelly Brogan MD CDC: You're Fired. Autism Coverup Exposed.
August 25, 2014, Patrick "Tim" Bolen at the Bolen Report The CDC Whistleblower… The Story Mainstream Media Doesn't Want To Run…
August 26, 2014, JB Handley at Age of Autism: Knock-out Blow Needed: Dr. Thompson Must Speak Out on MMR African American Autism Connection.
August 26, 2014, John Stone at Age of Autism:CDC Frauds: Connections Between the DeStefano Paper and the Thorsen Affair.
August 26, 2014, Celia Farber, Epoch Times: Whistleblower Reveals CDC Knowingly Put Children at Risk of Autism, Media Remains Silent (Video)
August 26, 2014, Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog CDC whistleblower is just the tip of the iceberg
August 26, 2014 Mike Adams at Natural News EXCLUSIVE: Bombshell email from CDC whistleblower reveals criminality of vaccine cover-up as far back as 2002
August 26, 2014, Age of Autism at Age of Autism: CDC Whistleblower on Thimerosal in Pregnant Women (note: video interview with Brian Hooker, not William W. Thompson)
August 26, 2014, in the evening: Anti-vaccine Activists at The Thinking Moms' Revolution Host a #CDCWhistleblower Twitter Party
August 27, 2014, "Bobby Dee" at Gianelloni Family: Erased by a Birth Certificate
August 27, 2014, John Stone, Age of Autism: The CDC: the Detective Agency Which Could Never Find Anything<
August 27, 2014, Anne Dachel, Age of Autism: CDC Whistleblower Story: Danke to Franchi
August 27, 2014, Marcella Piper-Terry, CDC Whistleblower and Probability of Post-MMR Autism Diagnosis
August 27, 2014, Marcella Piper-Terry at Thinking Mom's Revolution How Many African-American Boys Have Autism as a Result of the CDC's Lies?
August 27, 2014, Ethan Huff at Natural News: Congressman Posey discusses autism, vaccines and lack of CDC transparency in interview with Dr. Brian Hooker
August 27, 2014 Mike Adams at Natural News: Media conspiracy to bury CDC whistleblower story protects vaccine makers at the expense of human life
August 27, 2014, Jon Rappoport at Jon Rappoport's Blog Update: CDC whistleblower in touch with members of Congress
August 27, 2014 Mike Adams at Natural News: Scientific journal censors Brian Hooker's analysis of CDC vaccine data; the Church of Science orders 'burning of books'
August 27, 2014, Age of Autism at Age of Autism: Translational Neurodegeneration Removes Vaccination Timing Article
August 27, 2014, Age of Autism at Age of Autism: Statement from William Thompson, RE Pediatrics MMR African American Males Data
August 27, 2014 Mike Adams at Natural News: BREAKING: CDC whistleblower confesses to MMR vaccine research fraud in historic public statement
August 27, 2014, The Event Chronicle at The Event Chronicle: CDC whistleblower confesses to MMR vaccine research fraud in historic public statement
August 28, 2014 Celia Farber, Epoch Times Vaccinegate: CDC Whistleblower Admits Claims of Data Fixing Were True, Complains at Being Recorded and Outed
Full text of Hooper's paper: Transl Neurodegener. 2014 Aug 8;3:16. doi: 10.1186/2047-9158-3-16. eCollection 2014. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccination timing and autism among young african american boys: a reanalysis of CDC data. Hooker BS.
Full text of the Focus Autism press release http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/study-focus-autism-foundation-finds-cdc-whistleblower-reveals-widespread-manipulation-1939179.htm
The 1989 revisions of the US Standard Certificates of Live Birth and Death and the US Standard Report of Fetal Death.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1349110/
Example of Vital Statistics Data collected on Georgia Home Births, http://www.celebratedouglascounty.com/view/global/viewdownload/&docid=3577&file=/Home_Birth_Package.pdf
CDC Position statement on 2004 Destefano paper http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/Autism/cdc2004pediatrics.html
Snopes.com: Claim: The CDC has intentionally suppressed reports of vaccine-related cases of autism from reaching the public. PROBABLY FALSE
Categories Autism, Brian Hooker, CDC Whistleblower, Matt Carey, MMR, Vaccines, Wakefield, William Thompson


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No bishop provisional vote at Diocese of Virginia convention this weekend
John Chilton
A letter from the Diocese of Virginia Standing Committee president breaking the news that, contrary to plans, there will not be a vote on a bishop provisional at convention this coming weekend.
Dear Diocesan Family:
The Standing Committee has worked diligently with the Presiding Bishop's Office since August 3, 2018 to identify a candidate to serve as our Bishop Provisional. The requirements for a previously consecrated, experienced bishop who would not reach age 72 before the end of the proposed term, and who would be willing to move to Virginia quickly for a term-limited position, made the pool of potential candidates a small one. Our hope was that we would be able to present a name to the Convention for election. We interviewed some outstanding candidates, but those bishops have concluded, through their own discernment processes, that they could not come to Virginia at this time.
The Standing Committee will continue to work with the Presiding Bishop's office to discern the correct person to work with us as this Diocese moves forward doing the good work of the Holy Spirit following Bishop Shannon's resignation. In the meantime, in accordance with Articles IX and XV of the Constitution of the Diocese of Virginia, Ecclesiastical Authority is temporarily conferred on the Bishop Suffragan, the Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff. Bishop Susan, the Standing Committee and the Executive Board will continue to work together in faith to keep the ministry of this Diocese moving smoothly during this time of transition.
Your Sister in Christ,
Helen K. Spence, President
Brother Tom Hudson
The link "Earlier coverage of Diocese of Virginia governance here." only does a Google search, which is useless. No articles on the real conflict are found there.
Using the Search box on The Lead apparently returns all articles with "Virginia" in the title. Also there, nothing clearly addresses the promise of earlier coverage of governance.
None of this gets to the issues going on in Dio VA – the conflict over finances and the reasons behind the bishop's retirement. Come on, Cafe – you can do better!
Annie Milligan
No one wants to come to Virginia. What is going on??!!
Eric Bonetti
Reply to Annie Milligan
Check out the discussion in the relevant report about conflicts with the trustees of the diocesan investments for one of the answers.
Kenneth Knapp
Reply to Eric Bonetti
What is the "relevant report" and where might one find it?
Reply to Kenneth Knapp
It's set forth in the Executive Committee report, found at http://www.thediocese.net/Customer-Content/www/CMS/files/Convention_2018/Executive_Board_report_10-31.docx
In it, the Executive Comittee discusses its desire for reconciliation with the Trustees of the Funds (TOTF), but announces plans for the withdrawal of all diocesan funds from the TOTF investments, subject to +Shannon's approval. There is a subsequent discussion about the Executive Committee's concerns about transparency and governance apropos the funds and, following bishop Shannon's retirement announcement, the decision to hold off on any withdrawals until a new bishop provisional can examine the relationships involved.
Jennings Symon
The investment arm of the Diocese seems to have gone rogue. The new bishop needs to bring them back in the tent. Why they need a full-time staff of three I don't understand.
Reply to Jennings Symon
My sense, too — and I am not unbiased, having had a series of bad experiences involving +Shannon — is that the latter may be too reticent to "lay down the law" and end conflicts such as this. As Jennings notes, there are times a bishop simply needs to say, "No more."
He also seems to be something of a politician, in that the Bishop tends to tell people what they want to hear. That can be problematic, for in cases of conflict, this often exacerbates the conflict, versus moving the situation towards healing. And both sides can wind up in an uproar when it appears to them — rightly or wrongly — that the bishop has spoken out of both sides of his mouth.
My final observation is that, like many clergy, +Shannon is both conflict adverse, and not good at understanding the dynamics of these situations. That undoubtedly made for a tough go of it for him in a situation in which the diocese is just emerging from years of litigation and internal conflict.
I'd also add that there's much work to be done within the Diocese on transparency at every level. While I laud the executive committee's desire for openness and transparency involving the TOTF, it does not appear to see the irony when, in the very same report, it discusses "confidential details relating to benefits and salaries and a proposal that that had been agreed to by the Chancellor of the Diocese, the Treasurer of the Diocese and by Bishop Shannon. The Board approved the agreement on a 15 to 1 vote."
In well-run organizations, both for- and non-profit, compensation of top officials is a matter of public record. Why should the church be any different, particularly when its finances are continuing to slide? It is hard to feel much buy-in when the whole modus operandi seems like, "just send money and don't ask questions."
Marjie Flippen
The report from our deanery leadership is that the investment arm has had a number of large investors withdraw funds – not sure on numbers – maybe $20,000,000. The investment group Trustees aren't willing to hear the complaints about their staff. It's a problem that has a lot of us reconsidering. We need the new bishop to address this.
Pegam Johnson III
Heaven forfend! A factor might be that as the largest (or next) largest diocese there is always much work to be done. No carpetbaggers need apply nor scalawags either.
Another troubling development. While it no doubt is true that the pool of candidates was limited due to the present number of vacancies, it would seem that effective succession planning would have considered in advance the challenges facing the diocese.
My take: Assuming the diocese is successful in filling the slot, which is not a given, the successful candidate faces an uphill battle when it comes to governance issues.


Santhiya Koh Yao Yai Resort & Spa recently welcomed King Letsie III of the Kingdom of Lesotho, who visited the resort with his Queen Consort and three children.
The governor of Phang-nga Province, Khun Pakhapong Taweepat, joined the owners and senior management of Santhiya Resorts & Spas to welcome his majesty and his family to the island.
"It is an absolute honor to have the chance to welcome the royal family of Lesotho to our country and our resort. Thailand and Lesotho share agricultural ties, and we feel privileged to have the opportunity to share our culture with them through the traditional teakwood architecture of the resort and authentic Thai food," said Mr. Komsan Chantaravisoot, President of Santhiya Resorts & Spas.
During their time on the island, the visiting royal family enjoyed a beachfront khantok dinner, a traditional northern Thai style of eating, prepared especially for them by the resort's chefs. After dinner, they had the chance to relax next to the infinity pool at Saaitara Restaurant, where they were also presented with a teakwood relief carving from the resort executives.
The African nation ruler previously traveled to Bangkok to pay his final respects to Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Prior to that, King Letsie III also took part in the 60th anniversary of His Majesty the late King's accession to the throne in 2006.


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American men need something to do
by Matt Phillips
Oct 9 2016, 4:00am
Brock should be in the prime of his life. He's 31, single, lives in a great city — Chicago — and has a bachelor's degree and a master's in computer animation. In any other decade, he'd likely be starting to climb the lucrative incline of the career curve, pulling in promotions and raises, and socking away savings for a downpayment on a house, and eventually, retirement.
Maybe he'd move in with a girlfriend, get married, or start to think about having kids. Or maybe he'd just be hanging out with friends or tearing up Tinder as a bachelor.
Instead, most days Brock doesn't leave his studio apartment until after noon. He walks to the gym, where he might stay for three hours, running on the treadmill, pumping barbells. He doesn't talk to anyone, really, except when he has to share a machine or if someone falls off the treadmill. Mostly, he listens to audio books (he likes sci-fi). Finding work was near impossible when he graduated from college in late 2008, and he hasn't had a job since 2010, when he was working full-time at an Amazon fulfillment center. (He asked that we not use his full name out of concern it would make getting a job more difficult.)
He's slowly stopped seeing friends out of sheer embarrassment and he just feels uncomfortable around people. He hasn't dated for years. "I don't feel confident enough to date anymore," he told me. "How do you tell someone that you're 31 and long-term unemployed?"
Brock is one of nearly 3 million American men who need something to do. These men are in their prime working years, age 25 to 54, and want to be employed, but they don't have jobs and have stopped looking for work. Men's relationship with the labor market has grown increasingly casual in the last four decades, but the trend has accelerated since the recession. Now, just 89 percent of working-age men are in the workforce, compared to 98 percent in the 1950s, the golden age of the American economy.
"This is an extremely large shift," said Erik Hurst, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, who has studied the phenomenon closely. "Young men used to always work, and now they're not."
There's no single clear reason the share of men in the workforce has dropped, economists say. But they agree that the implications are huge — on a personal level, for guys like Brock, and for the economy as a whole. If nothing changes, this generation of men will earn less, pay less in taxes, consume more in government services, marry less frequently, and lead increasingly unhealthy lives that lead to earlier deaths.
And since the growth of any economy depends, in part, on the total number of workers in it, the continuing drop in men working and looking for work could make the United States a poorer country over time.
"Our living standards, going forward, depend on how many of these men are participating in the labor force," said Richard Fry, an economist at the Pew Research Center. "It's important for the country's living standards, as a whole, to get them re-engaged."
Millions of men didn't stop working overnight. But the problem is more pressing now, because the share of women at work is no longer rising. When the U.S. had millions of women entering the workforce between the 1960s and 1990s, they could pick up the slack as men dropped out. That's no longer the case.
Getting men to work is important because it doesn't seem like they're doing anything much better with their time. In his new book, "Men Without Work," scholar Nicholas Eberstadt of the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute estimates that men who are out of the labor force gain an extra 2,150 hours of free time each year.
So what do they do? They spend large chunks of time on sleep, grooming and personal care as well as "socializing, relaxing, and leisure," according to government survey data. That includes five and a half hours a day watching television and movies.
"What is striking, however, is how little of this enormous free-time dividend is devoted to helping others in their family or their community," Eberstadt concluded.
Before you dismiss these findings as the hand-wringing of a conservative think tank, consider this: The Obama administration largely agrees. A recent report from the White House's Council of Economic Advisors noted that working-age men who weren't working — or looking for work — weren't really contributing much elsewhere. These guys, again, were found to be spending more time on "socializing, relaxing, and leisure," including watching almost six hours of TV a day.
A separate paper published by Hurst and his colleagues looked at younger, less-educated men ages 21 to 30 who weren't working or looking for work. They spent large amounts of time on the computer and playing video games, much more than they spent on household chores, exercise, or socializing with friends, among other things.
Oh, and another thing these guys are doing more than others? Smoking and doing drugs, according to the American Enterprise Institute.
That shouldn't be a surprise. There's a long-established link between unemployment and drug and alcohol use, although the nature of the link is poorly understood. (Does excess free time lead to drug use, or do users find it tougher to hold onto a job?)
But in recent years, amid the national opioid crisis, that link has become more deadly. In a groundbreaking paper published last year, Princeton University professor Anne Case, and her husband, Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton, spotlighted a surprising rise in deaths of middle-age white Americans driven by drug-related poisonings, liver disease, and suicides. The uptick in deaths was largest for those with the least education, the group that has fared the worst in the job market in recent decades.
Let's be clear: Not every guy who has dropped out of the workforce spends his days in a fog of weed smoke and Netflix. No longer the breadwinners, some are instead picking up the kind of unpaid labor that traditionally fell to women.
Take for example Javier, who despite being unemployed in Corona, California, finds himself doing a lot of work. He runs the household, which starts by getting his three kids up, showered, and dressed, starting at 6 a.m. He then fixes school lunches, checks homework, signs permission slips, and loads the kids into his Mazda before dropping them off at their respective high school, middle school, and elementary school.
Then he returns home where, before starting on the laundry, dishes, vacuuming, and dinner preparation, he fires up his computer to conduct what's left of a job search — he had worked in digital and online marketing — that has become increasingly fitful. (Like Brock, he asked that we not use his full name because he worried it would make any job hunt more difficult.)
His wife, an attorney at her family's practice, is able to support the family on her salary. And Javier does bring in some money by restringing tennis rackets and running a tennis-focused blog. He says they make enough to get by. "It's just not enough to have a fun life."
After an hour or so looking at the job listings, he finds himself feeling depressed and useless. It's a feeling he's been struggling with more and more lately, prompting him to seek help with a therapist and take some medication. He feels a strain on his marriage as well. "She looks at me like, 'You're a fucking jackass,'" he said.
He has continued to send out resumes, checking in with his LinkedIn contacts and looking at job listings. But he says the jobs he finds don't pay enough to cover the costs of commuting and child care. He feels he's slowly becoming unemployable. "I've been out of work for almost a year," he said in an interview a few weeks back. "I'm just kind of like, 'I give up.'"
How millions of other guys came to a similar conclusion is a complex socioeconomic hairball of causes, effects, and consequences. Some, like Brock, have been hurt, in part, by graduating during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Some, like Javier, feel the wages they are being offered just don't compensate for long commutes, time away from family, and child-care expenses. As for the rest, take your pick: high incarceration rates, the erosion of middle-skill and middle-class jobs, globalization, outsourcing, trade.
Rising numbers of veterans with disabilities and poor health more broadly could also be playing a role. A paper out last week from labor economist Alan Krueger found that nearly half of working-age men who have dropped out of the labor force take pain medication on a daily basis.
All these factors likely play some part in either pulling or pushing men to the fringes or completely out of the job market. And some economists argue that the decline of working men isn't a crisis but simply a choice.
"One factor to keep in mind is that women are enjoying higher real earnings, making it possible for men affiliated with women to take it easier," Stanford economics professor Robert Hall told me. "Maybe men have responded to changing conditions in the labor market to take advantage of enjoyable activities at home."
But many analysts point to a single simple fact: Most of the men who aren't working don't have college degrees. And workers without college degrees haven't gotten much of a raise in decades.
"I think one of the major factors has been work doesn't pay very much at the low end," said David Card, an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
According to research from MIT economists David Autor and Daron Acemoglu, real earnings for men without four-year college degrees shrank by an average of 11 percent between 1979 and 2007, whereas earnings of those with bachelor's degrees, and those with graduate degrees, rose by 10 percent and 26 percent, respectively.
Some of this comes back to the decline of jobs in manufacturing. As recently as 1970, factories accounted for 1 in 4 U.S. jobs. Today, it's less than 1 in 10. Factory work was heavily male and well-paid, providing a great source of jobs for men who didn't go to college.
But the share of manufacturing jobs in the U.S. began to shrink in the 1970s, a trend that only picked up steam in recent years as China became, essentially, the workshop of the world. Over the last 20 years, some 5 million manufacturing jobs disappeared as the U.S. economy shifted toward service jobs and felt the impact of foreign trade and technological change.
For a while in the 2000s, these mostly male former factory workers were absorbed into the booming construction industry. But it didn't last. When the housing boom turned to bust, those jobs vanished too, leaving the pool of workers without bachelor's degrees without many options. The result? The rates of men at work collapsed. And they haven't bounced back much.
Economists say there are some things that could be done to get men back to work. A burst of government spending on roads and bridges could help. Compared to the non-college-educated men who are dropping out of the labor force, road- and bridge-construction workers "tend to be men with the similar kind of profile," Card said.
And unlike most policies economists recommend, this one could actually happen. Hillary Clinton has called for $275 billion in infrastructure spending over five years, paid for in part by higher taxes on the rich. Donald Trump has said he wants to double that.
So, there are reasons to believe that we can still find something for American men to do. After all, we haven't really tried that hard to fix the problem yet.
Other countries have. The drop in labor force participation in the U.S. has been much worse than in relatively comparable countries such as France, Germany, Canada, and the U.K.
"That tells us that there must be policies that are used, say, in Germany and France and other places around the world that we could learn from and could allow us to get our numbers up," said David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the left-leaning Brookings Institution. "So that tells us we're not doomed; it's a reason to be optimistic."
That's in part because the United States just doesn't spend nearly as much on things like job training programs that help keep people in the job market. For instance, Germany spent 0.85 percent of GDP on such policies in 2012, when the U.S. spent just 0.12 percent, according to data collected by the rich-nation research group known as the OECD. The level of U.S. spending is the second-lowest of all countries tracked, just above Mexico.
And of course, there's always the chance that good old-fashioned economic improvement could help too. The Federal Reserve has been keeping interest rates low for years in an effort to support the economy and bolster the job market.
There has been clear improvement. The U.S. economy has generated jobs for 72 straight months, the longest stretch on record. Unemployment is down from 10 percent in October 2009 to 5 percent in September. (I checked in with Javier last week and he said he had finally had a decent job interview.)
But, don't kid yourself. There isn't going to be a single solution. The decline of men at work isn't just an economic problem; it reflects larger changes in American society.
"I think it's going to take more than the Fed running the economy hot," Card said. "I think this is a much deeper and more structural problem."
Correction: An earlier version of a chart in this story transposed the labels for the data on labor force participation by men in the U.K. and the U.S.
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Essex Gazette (March 24, 1772).
"Yesterday was published in Boston … An ORATION … to commemorate the BLOODY TRAGEDY."
As soon as Benjamin Edes and John Gill informed readers of the Boston-Gazette that they published an oration that Joseph Warren delivered to commemorate the second anniversary of the "BLOODY TRAGEDY Of the FIFTH of March, 1770," the printers of the Essex Gazette ran their own advertisement. "Yesterday was published in Boston, and now to be sold by Samuel Hall, in Salem," the notice announced, "An ORATION, delivered March 5th, 1772, at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to commemorate the BLOODY TRAGEDY of the Fifth of March, 1770. By Dr. JOSEPH WARREN." That advertisement did not include the lengthy excerpt from the address that Edes and Gill included in their notice, but it did encourage consumers to participate in commemorating the Boston Massacre by purchasing their own copy of Warren's remarks.
Not surprisingly, given its location, the Essex Gazette engaged in the most extensive remembrances of "Preston's Massacre–in King-Street … In which Five Persons were killed, and Six wounded" of any newspaper published outside of Boston. On the occasion of the second anniversary, the Halls devoted the entire first page of their newspaper to a memorial that honored the patriots who gave their lives and listed grievances against the "British Ministry" that "contrived and effected the Establishment of the late Standing Army" in Massachusetts. In addition to such memorials, the Essex Gazette carried advertisements for commemorative items connected to the Boston Massacre. Nearly a year before promoting Warren's address, the Essex Gazette carried an advertisement for "A few of Mr. Lovell's ORATIONS on the Massacre in Boston, to be sold by the Printer hereof." Residents of Salem and surrounding towns had an opportunity to purchase the same commemorative pamphlet printed and sold in Boston. The commodification and marketing of the Boston Massacre helped to create a culture of commemoration of the Boston Massacre throughout the colony. Colonizers who did not live in the busy port and could not witness Warren's oration themselves read the Essex Gazette and the various newspapers printed in Boston. When they did so, they read coverage of the commemorative events and encountered invitations to purchase their own copies of orations and other items related to the Boston Massacre, opportunities to partake in civic participation through consumption even if they could not attend in person.
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(Reuters) - Ten people including children were shot at an apartment complex in San Bernardino, California Sunday night, police said, with three people in dire condition.
The shooting happened on a hot holiday weekend in the city that is about 60 miles (96 km) east of Los Angeles.
People were gathered outside playing games in a common area of an apartment complex of about 100 units, police said.
Lawhead said that as of early Monday, detectives do not have a suspect or a motive in the shooting. No weapons were recovered at the scene, he said.
The shooting took place a week after a gunman shot nine people and killed two competitors at a video game tournament in Jacksonville, Florida August 26.


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Assemblyman Randy Kirner, R-Reno, held onto his seat by just 11 votes after the final tallies were submitted early Wednesday morning.
He was challenged by Republican Lisa Krasner in the race for District 26. There's been no indication yet if she will challenge the results, which were delayed into early Wednesday because of a glitch in the system used to report the results of 10,000 absentee ballots in Washoe County.
Krasner, a seven-year member of Reno's Parks and Recreation Commission, entered the race as critic of Kirner's role in pushing Assembly Bill 46 during the 2013 Legislature.
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he Spanish Doubloon was a seven-gram (.225 Troy-ounce) gold coin minted in Spain, Mexico, and the Spanish settlement of Nueva Grenada (present-day Peru) that was used widely in the Americas until the mid-nineteenth century. The word "doubloon" has its roots in the Latin word "duplus," meaning double, a reference to denomination of this coin worth two escudos. These gold coins were eventually minted in four denominations, worth one, two, four, and eight escudos respectively.
Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, gold doubloons played a pivotal role in the Spanish economy and were a major part of its colonial activities. Doubloons minted in the Americas were carried on Spanish galleons throughout the Caribbean and across the world to trade for highly sought after commodities such as silks and spices. As they made their way across the vast seas and oceans, the captains of these ships were always wary of attack from marauding pirates. The pirates knew full well that if they could manage to intercept a Spanish galleon en route to its trading destination, their chances of finding gold aboard were extremely high.
Minted on the front of the doubloon is the coat of arms of the Hapsburg royal family, known as the "Hapsburg Shield." Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, remembered by history as the king and queen who launched the voyage of Christopher Columbus, were part of the Hapsburg royal lineage. The "Crusader's Cross" is stamped on the coin's reverse. The appearance of this symbol indicates the close tie between religion and government in Spain in the 16th and 17th century. The doubloon's reverse also contains a lion, representing the Spanish province of Leon and a castle, the symbol of the province of Castile.
Because Doubloons were minted entirely by hand, creating a perfectly round coin was virtually impossible. First, gold was melted down and poured into thin strips. As the gold strips cooled, they were pressed until they met the desired thickness. Coin-shaped pieces were then cut from the strips of metal to create what are known today as "blanks." The blanks were then pressed against an engraved coin die and struck repeatedly until the design of the die was embedded in the soft metal. After the coins were weighed, excess metal was trimmed away by hand.
Colonial America was awash in coins from all across Europe. Dutch Thalers mixed with English pounds, French Francs, and Spanish gold pieces of eight. As it happened, a considerable number of these coins were put into circulation by pirates sailing north from the Caribbean to commercial centers such as New York. The Spanish gold doubloon most definitely made its way to New York and was certainly used in commercial trade there. In fact, an American version of the doubloon was first minted in 1787 by a man named Ephraim Brasher. The so-called "Brasher Doubloon" is now one of the most valuable and coveted rare gold coins in the world.
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