Education: A House of Mirrors #2

               Issue:  Association - physical problems being defined as mental problems.
                    last update Nov 18, 2001 at 11:47 am central standard time - Texas, USA
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Pollution Credits, Who Pays and Who gets a free ride?  While getting the free ride are the companies paying pollution credits also blamed for reactions?
I only have some of the pertinent parts that show children have not changed. Biodegradability / digestion / nutrition depends on microorganisms to happen in our bodies and in the environment. It seems as if pharesudical chemicals / drugs kill microorganisms much faster than manufacturing chemicals and many of those microorganisms are the antidotes to manufacturing chemicals. If you get a certain type of fluoride poisoning a type of calcium is the treatment / antidote. If your body can not utilize calcium guess who gets blamed for your bodies reaction -- pharesudical or manufacturing? Even if the water (something that goes in our bodies) I have found citations that blame manufacturing and very little that blames pharmaceutical companies. This is a link that shows that other parts of the world might perceive the US - behind in technology,
***Since everything is not in a computer and even virtual reality education would depend on the associations/correlation of the physical life skills - what kind of understanding would someone have without the hands on of home ec, shop, physical education or dissection in biology?

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Education: No playgrounds and dumbed down -- OR Waldkindergarten?
"This new idea, known as Waldkindergarten ("forest kindergarten"), is the fastest growing educational movement in Germany today."

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Ciba-Geigy gave substansal contributions to CHADD, this was made public in the USA by PBS 1 PBS 2 airing the Merrow Report October 20, 1995
By 1996 Ciba-Geigy had merged with Sandoz to create the company called Novartis and since neither Clinton, the FDA or anyone else had made enough of an issue about the contributions by 1996 The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) seems to have jumped on the band wagon by taking money for pharmesudical companys too, Eli Lilly and Co. - makers of Prozac and Novartis makers of Ritalin.
[ http://www.resultsproject.net/writing_on_the_wall.html ]
So, once they drum down US education and American Democracy to the point that enough businesses and educated people leave America who will be running America and will they finally make the fact that pharmesudicals pollute the water public?  Same control even without drugs?

[LS] What parent hasn't been relieved to find out that their child was not acting up but was actually sick, yet with the decrease in antibiotic use many parents and children have been left to fend for themselves and many behaviors of children have been attributed to mental frustration rather than a physical frustration (temporary physical disability causing mental frustration) that the parent and child could define and work around.

[LS] Added 2001 Nov 16  Children do not seem to have changed in their ways to learning, the only change is that learning styles were being defined - then in 1992 items like
1) brain stem cells - applications - the brain makes new cells and new connections
2) many upper respiratory infections found to be caused by a virus on bacteria - antibiotics only seemed to knock
    out the bodies natural defensive bacteria (probiotics) that help keep us healthy.  Nutrition is a key point.
3) Education - the learning style of a child
senses / physical -- visual, audio, tactile - hands on, verbal - feedback, concepts by association or correlation --
                 motivations for learning that concept
                 there is no question to stupid to ask.
Mental -- * that asking questions could mean that you have a mental problem.
               * beware because if your child learns coloring with Big Bird or any other program and when the child
                  colors in the class room taps their foot to the beat of the Sesame Street song the teacher might
                  associate it to a mental problem instead of a motivational association.
                        Instead of being something that the child learns like reading silently it is defined as a major
                  problem.

The CHADD web site appears as one that will relieve the frustration that ADHD causes for children, parents, and educators.  What the CHADD web site does is imply that alternative treatments do not work, yet what parent has not had to give light foods when a child is sick or not feeling well. Ritalin (and it's clones) have the potential of masking light frustrations illness' and keeping them from knowing that they are sick until they are really sick. There may only be a few children that have there ADHD symptoms caused by allergies or other reasons AT ANY ONE TIME, but since these can reoccur with only light symptoms showing these children may be labeled as ADHD when in reality are just having an off day.
* smaller class sized will not help if the children can not hear, feel lousy, sick, because they could still be wondering if it is imaginary (will go away), if they are an hypochondriac, or if it is real. For many children to find out that they should not always feel that way is such a relief that they will be grateful to anything that should help them. 

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From 'PRISON DRUG AND PLASMA PROJECTS' (detailed in the 1969 The New York Times, Page 1) to the Arkansas 'Blood Gate' when Clinton was governor there is current proof that people have been used as objects.

When my children were was born in Sept. 1998 and Dec 1990 my training as a mother was by OJT (on the job training) and the people that I looked to were the professionals.  The child born in 1998 has had few problems BUT the child born in 1990 has had constant medical problems like being on antibiotics from his first birthday to his second (1991-1992) because of constant ear infections and hard ear wax, it would be like almost crystallized dry salt play dough, by 1993 - I was told to only bring him in if his temperature was over 104 degrees.

It became unpopular to use antibiotics unless absolutely needed. Mothers that was used to the relief that came from knowing that your child's actions were because of a physical sickness that antibiotics would cure in a few days suddenly had to deal with the distress at feeling lousy because of  ear infections and other problems, till suddenly many actions started being labeled ADHD, which could have a child thinking that the pain in their sinus' or ears was actually a pain in their brain so they would not tell parents or teacher.

"Between 1983 and 1993, the percentage of such patients receiving antibiotics rose from 1.4 to 45. During those years, the researchers isolated Escherichia coli bacteria annually from the patients, and tested the microbes for resistance to five types of fluoroquinolones. Between 1983 and 1990, all 92 E. coli strains tested were easily killed by the antibiotics. But from 1991 to 1993, 11 of 40 tested strains (28 percent) were resistant to all five drugs."

But this link has another take -- upper respiratory infection
...(Doctors have since learned that colds and most other infections are caused by viruses, and viruses are not destroyed by antibiotics.)   Therefore, a penicillin shot became the standard treatment for colds, sore throats, ear infections, and pneumonia.
...injections caused more allergic reactions to antibiotics, damage occurred from the antibiotic entering nerve tissue, and abscessed occurred at the injection site. Then it was learned that most infections in children were caused by germs that antibiotics would not destroy.
http://www.kidsgrowth.com/resources/advicedetail.cfm?id=30

Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever by John Raven
Has a good chicken soup recipe
http://www.texascooking.com/features/jan2000ravenfeed.htm

Bacteria that help use digest food (like protein, fats, starch) and keep us healthy, when not killed by antibiotics, or excesses of items that can be toxic to these bacteria. I was accused of being an environmentalist but it is just that I budget the children's intake of sugar, msg or anything else that might mess with the digestive system.
Human - probiotics, Acidophilus (Lactobacillus acidophilus), Bifidus (Bifidobacterium bifidus), Enzymes
Animal - http://www.ctv.es/clean_world_hispania/feeds.htm Decreases animal flatulence and improves utilization of food.
Plant - Aspergillus is a natural, completely organic, microorganism inoculate. Healthier and faster growing plants Faster seed germination A stronger root system Improved nutritional uptake with better and more complete utilization of fertilizers Helps prevent pathogenic bacteria from occurring in the soil, keeping plant disease at a minimum. This is a people & critter friendly product that is environmentally safe and easy to use.
[ http://www.raingardens.com/special/aspergillus.htm ]
Septic -
** Alken-Murray, Innovative Pollution Solutions since 1934
Innovative Pollution Solutions! Updated: November 2, 2001. ... River pictured above was restored ...
Description: Sells both microbial and chemical water/wastewater treatment products.
[ http://www.alken-murray.com/ ]

Bacteria and fungi are living organisms that produce specific enzymes to break down compounds so that they can be ingested through the bacterial cell wall. Each type of enzyme is highly specific, targeting only one type of molecule. To completely degrade a mixed waste, selected groups of complementary enzymes must be produced. Most strains of bacteria are capable of producing 2 or more enzyme types. A selection process determines which enzymes are produced and in what strength. Although all enzymes are proteins, not all proteins are enzymes.

Since the early 1990s, North America has turned to psychoactive drugs in unprecedented numbers for the control of children. In November 1999, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) warned about a record six-fold increase in Ritalin production between 1990 and 1995. In 1995, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), a agency of the World Health Organization, deplored that "10 to 12 percent of all boys between the ages 6 and 14 in the United States have been diagnosed as having ADD and are being treated with methylphenidate [Ritalin]." In March 1997, the board declared, "The therapeutic use of methylphenidate is now under scrutiny by the American medical community; the INCB welcomes this." The United States uses approximately 90% of the world's Ritalin. http://www.house.gov/ed_workforce/hearings/106th/oi/ritalin92900/breggin.htm
 

[LS]Goals 2000 and state testing of children has led to some teachers and schools getting rewards for doing well.  The higher grade levels are the ones that are being audited - but the problems are starting in the lower grade levels because a child does not present well when feeling lousy and the person in authority may think psychological before medical.  If a adult can not hear they take a q-tip and clean their ears, does a child that is having problems know the difference between clogged ears, a ear infection, clogged sinuses, or mental?  My son was accused of having mental problems by an authority figure (not the school or a psychologist) without checking for physical problems.  So now a child that was testing well on the Standford is with my ex-husband.  This child is on a Ritalin clone and has F's and

... The use of this drug has a different meaning to the military. Taking Ritalin can result in a permanent disqualification from military service. http://www.blockcenter.com/naturesway.html

... Whereas, the DEA report said children can ... taking both Prozac and Ritalin before killing his parents and ... child's future employment and military service options. The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children http://www.nfgcc.org/banritalin.htm

This article may refer to a shortage of school nurses to hand out Ritalin, but what of the nurses at the offices of ear specialists as well as other specialists that are not being are being replaced by this pill. http://www.policyreview.com/apr99/eberstadt.html.

Q. How are schools involved in diagnosing, assessing, and treating ADHD?
A. Physicians and parents should be aware that schools are federally mandated to perform an appropriate evaluation if a child is suspected of having a disability that impairs academic functioning. This policy was recently strengthened by regulations implementing the 1997 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA), which guarantees appropriate services and a public education to children with disabilities from ages 3 to 21. For the first time, IDEA specifically lists ADHD as a qualifying condition for special education services. If the assessment performed by the school is inadequate or inappropriate, parents may request that an independent evaluation be conducted at the school's expense. Furthermore, some children with ADHD qualify for special education services within the public schools, under the category of "Other Health Impaired." In these cases, the special education teacher, school psychologist, school administrators, classroom teachers, along with parents, must assess the child's strengths and weaknesses and design an Individualized Education Program. These special education services for children with ADHD are available though IDEA.
Q. Is ADHD on the increase? If so, why?
A. No one knows for sure whether the prevalence of ADHD per se has risen, but it is very clear that the number of children identified with the disorder who obtain treatment has risen over the past decade. Some of this increased identification and increased treatment seeking is due in part to greater media interest, heightened consumer awareness, and the availability of effective treatments. A similar pattern is now being observed in other countries. Whether the frequency of the disorder itself has risen remains unknown, and needs to be studied.
Q. Aren't there nutritional treatments for ADHD?
A. Many parents have exhausted nutritional approaches, such as eliminating sugar from the diet, before they seek medical attention. However, there are no well-established nutritional interventions that have been consistently demonstrated to be efficacious for assisting the great majority of children with ADHD. A small body of research has suggested that some children may benefit from these interventions, but delaying the implementation of well-established, effective interventions while engaged in the search for unknown, generally unproven allergens, is likely to be harmful for many children. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/adhdqa.cfm

DEA report http://www.add-adhd.org/ritalin.html -- http://www.breggin.com/dearelease.html

DEA Warns of Ritalin® Abuse; Drug Manufacturer's Contributions to Advocacy Group Investigated http://www.ndsn.org/MARCH96/PRESCRP.html

For some a belief in a higher deity is considered a psychosis and when the most intense thing these people have done is sex - to never have achieved joy in sports or the pleasure of a sunset they can base their life on how well they do in the bedroom. For the people that believe that they can sit back and clip coupons reference red tides at This page https://thepiedpiper.tripod.com/survival/survive0000.html
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Sodexo has a long history of anti-union practices and financial ties to the private prison industry according to the HERE website (www.eyesonsodexo.org.) The UWO workers also have their own website, www.geocities.com/richuwo/index.html, which makes similar claims. Also, over the past year, students at over 50 universities worldwide have targeted the corporation for its ties to private prisons according to Not with Our Money, a campaign of the New York-based Prison Moratorium Project.

The 21 Million dollar facility in Mart Texas 13 to 17 year olds put in for Burg, car thief, murder starting with Jan 2000, 40 kids will be added each month

"Founded in 1983 with backing from the investors behind Kentucky Fried Chicken, C.C.A. was one of the first companies to push the privatization of public services."
"Sooner or later, people realize that "the government can't do anything very well," Thomas Beasley, a co-founder of C.C.A. and a former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party"
"C.C.A. started taking reservations during the Reagan Administration, when Beasley founded the firm in Nashville with a former classmate from West Point."
"From the start, those synergies included close ties to politicians who could grant the company lucrative contracts. As former chairman of the state G.O.P., Beasley was a good friend of then-Governor Lamar Alexander. In 1985 Alexander backed a plan to hand over the entire state prison system to the fledgling company for $200 million. Among C.C.A.'s stockholders at the time were the Governor's wife, Honey, and Ned McWherter, the influential Speaker of the state House, who succeeded Alexander as governor."
"Like other companies, C.C.A. prefers to design and build its own prisons so it can replace guards right from the start with video cameras and clustered cellblocks that are cheaper to monitor."
"The State of Tennessee hoped to answer that question when it turned South Central over to C.C.A. in 1992. The prison was built at roughly the same time as two state-run facilities with similar designs and inmate populations, giving officials a rare opportunity to compare daily operating costs--and quality--under privatization."
"The latest state report on violence at the three prisons indicates that South Central is a much more dangerous place than its public counterparts. During the past fiscal year, the C.C.A. prison experienced violent incidents at a rate more than 50 percent higher than state facilities. The company also posted significantly worse rates for contraband, drugs and assaults on staff and prisoners."
"If that doesn't raise some eyebrows and give you some kind of indication of what the future holds, I guess those of us who are concerned just need to be quiet," says John Mark Windle, a state representative who opposes privatization."
"...Doctor R. Crants, who co-founded C.C.A. and now serves as chairman and chief executive officer."

Wackenhut and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) are two of the biggest players, with over 30 detention centers between the two. There are plenty of smaller companies in on the action as well, including CCRI, the corporation that owns the Brazoria facility.

Sodexho Alliance, a multinational based in France, and its Australian division, Sodexho Australia, won the contract to cater for several Olympic venues
Both Sodexho Alliance and Sodexho Australia are involved in private prisons, through their connections to Corrections Corporation of America (CC-Am) and Corrections Corporation of Australia (CC-Aust).

"This past April, I wrote a column about our friendly neighborhood caterer, Sodexho-Mariott, and its parent corporation Sodexho Alliance. Sodexho Alliance is a conglomerate headquartered in France, which bought the Mariott name from the Mariott family that runs the hotels of the same name. Sodexho-Mariott Services (SMS) enjoys an exclusive contract with UMass Boston to provide food and catering services to the students, faculty and guests. SMS provides the same services to many other public and private universities and other institutions in the U.S."
"Besides complaints of bad food and a lack of choice, some students and activists are concerned about a certain skeleton in the Sodexho closet. As reported in my previous column, Sodexho Alliance is in the prison building business. According to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Sodexho owned 5 million shares of Correction Corporation of America (CCA) stock. CCA operated private prisons in the United States. Sodexho also owned stock in a prison construction company named Prison Realty Trust."

http://www.afscme.org/private/ From public works and public assistance to environmental protection and correctional facilities, corporations are trying to seize control of public services of all kinds.From public works and public assistance to environmental protection and correctional facilities, corporations are trying to seize control of public services of all kinds.
Links
1) CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESOURCES: Corrections http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/correct.htm
2) University of Alaska Anchorage © Copyright 1996-2000, Justice Center Web Site http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/links/corr.html

Bowing to ACLU Lawsuit, PA School District Repeals Ban on Communication Between Elected Officials and District Employees FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 5, 2001
http://www.aclupa.org/news/2001/n09-05-2001_communication-ban-officals-employees.htm
Bush Admin - http://hamburgsteak.sandwich.net/writ/ph33r.txt
   April 4, 2001: Under pressure from liberal consumer groups, backs off from a plan to elmininate salmonella testing of meat destined for public school lunches. The testing, which was recently started under the Clinton administration, has lead to the rejection of 4% of meat as being spoiled.
   May 24, 2001, Unrelated: Theodore Olson, a prominent figure in the Arkansas Project which was part of what former First Lady Hillary Clinton termed the "vast right-wing conspiracy" to defame and oust the Clintons and their political allies, is appointed Solicitor General by the Senate.
   August 25, 2001: Announces intention to cut the number of federal government employmees. While the Clinton administration cut 325,000 jobs, a report issued by the General Accounting Office says that most of the cuts were poorly planned, and the number of redundant administration positions has increased. Also announces that services offered by the federal government should have private competition.
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The information contained in this American Diabetes Association
(ADA) Web site is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment,
and the ADA recommends consultation with your doctor or health
care professional.
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Medical Societies    Founding Societies - [ http://www.medem.com/level2/found_societies.html ]

Psychologists May Not be Qualified Court Experts     Karen Winner
Posted November 4, 1997    American News Service
[ http://www.villagelife.org/news/archives/11-4-97_psychsnoexperts.html ]

Psychiatrists and Psychologists debate medication. https://thepiedpiper.tripod.com/psyc1.htm [©14 Oct 2000] Not all these ideas are valid but the they do seem to follow the philosophy / propoganda of that year.

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PHENYLKETONURIA (Aspartame, Spirulina) Patients with phenylketonuria should not use products containing aspartame or spirulina. Aspartame, a common artificial sweetener, is metabolized to phenylalanine, while spirulina contains phenylalanine.3,5 http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/~umdi/natural.htm

Aspartame has been extensively studied in animals and humans for more than two decades in more than 200 studies. Persons born with a rare disease called phenylketonuria (PKU), numbering about 15,000 in the total U.S. population, know to restrict their intake of phenylalanine from all dietary sources. Because aspartame-containing products are a source of phenylalanine in the diet, they carry the labeling, "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine." (Phenylalanine is found in much greater quantities in meats, milk and other protein foods.) http://www.caloriecontrol.org/aspartame.html

Fibromyalgia New scourge of the millennium. Contrary to popular belief, use of fluoride (drinking water, toothpaste, and other sources like medications such as Prozac) will wreak havoc in one's system. Besides being a known enzyme poison, fluoride causes calcium to be deposited in soft tissue where it does not belong. The fluoride is directly responsible for causing stiffness of joints, soft tissue rigidity, premature aging of the skin, skeletal fluorosis (severe brittleness of bones), painful arthritis, calcification of areas of the brain that deal with sleep (decreasing melatonin production) and behavioral centers. Fibromyalgia patients must avoid consumption of fluoridated drinking water, toothpaste, topical applications, medications with fluoride, and juices made from fluoridated water. Both the American Dental Association and the Academy of General Dentistry have warned its membership that there has been an increase of dental fluorosis both in Canada and the United States. http://www.icnr.securesites.com/Fibromyalgia.htm
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"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all
other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and
negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a
manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that
our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and
philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and
philosophy, geography, natural history and naval
architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture
in order to give their children a right to study
painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary,
tapestry and porcelain."
John Adams

I could wish that Adams quote were added to, or maybe it is...
    [ http://tncrimlaw.com/library.html ]
    [ http://www.tncrimlaw.com/civil_bible/ ]

Another page of reference links
[ http://www.foundingspirit.com/links.htm ]

The two following links show what is happening in other countries, and the links after those show what is happening in the US.  It seems that the US is thinks that the only place that can educate is a homeschooler.  I would be intrested in the teens health care plans though, it seems as if they had some good professionals around.

               11/08/00 Drugs found in tap water By Kathleen Fackelmann,
               USA TODAY [ http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/general/lhgen115.htm ]
                      17 year old Ashley Mulroy finds antibiotics in public supplies.
                      Ashley Mulroy from Wheeling, W.Va won the Stockholm Junior
                      Water Prize, an international science competition sponsored by
                      ITT Industries.
                      For information on the Stockholm Junior Water Prize, see the
                      Web site of  the Water Environment Federation:
                      http://www.wef.org/publicinfo/stockholm/index.jhtml

               June 7, 2001 Teen achieves research landmark
               [ http://comms.uwo.ca/news/2001ws/June4to8/youngscientist.htm ]
                      By Terry Rice - A 17-year-old student from Halifax, Nova Scotia
                      created a media fury last week becoming the youngest woman in
                      90 years to have an article published in the Canadian Medical
                      Association Journal (CMAJ). Lindsey  Edmunds has won a
                      Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship and a scholarship from
                      the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation, which will cover
                      the full cost of her undergraduate degree.
               The underuse of probiotics by family physicians
                      Lindsey Edmunds [ http://www.cma.ca/cmaj/vol-164/issue-11/1577.asp ]
               Published in medical journal at 17        Wednesday, May 30, 2001
                      [ http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScience0105/30_teen-par.html ]
               Fifty-eighth General Assembly    Second Session
                      [ http://www.gov.ns.ca/legi/hansard/han58-2/h01may29.htm ] - 101k
                      RESOLUTION NO. 1429  Hansard -- Tue., May 29, 2001
                      HALIFAX, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 2001
                      .. Ms. Edmunds first learned of probiotics when her sister was hospitalized ... that this
                      House congratulate Lindsey Edmunds for her meticulous research and ...

Thursday, 11 May, 2000, 09:24 GMT 10:24 UK
Science fiction powers space research
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_744000/744019.stm
By BBC News Online internet correspondent Mark Ward
The European Space Agency (Esa) is studying science fiction for ideas and technologies that could be used in future missions.
...Knowledgeable fans of science fiction are also being encouraged to send in suggestions to help Esa spot sources of good ideas.
...Ian Stewart, a mathematics professor from the University of Warwick and a science fiction author and fan said Nasa regularly consulted living authors for exploration ideas: "Nasa uses SF authors in focus groups for the pre-planning of missions."
...Authors such as Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and Larry Niven have helped Nasa draw up ideas for a mission to explore Europa - one of the moons of Jupiter.

s Mensa Education and Research Awards - MERF Awards - [ http://www.merf.us.mensa.org/awards/index.php3 ]

40% of Eygptians can not read or write - Nov 16, 2001  nbc news Martin Flesher - Cairo
[My note: cartoons expessally political cartoons are sometimes the way they get to know of the world.  Does this sound like the US of Mark Twain's day? I am looking for statistic on other countries.]

[ http://unescostat.unesco.org/uisen/stats/stats0.htm ]
UNESCO Statistical Yearbook 1999
Year Book
Education and Literacy
Estimated illiteracy rate and illiterate population aged 15 years and over

[ http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/3476/psyhumor.html ]
Psychology is actually biology.
Biology is actually chemistry.
Chemistry is actually physics.
And physics is actually math.
And my addition:
Math is in its essence philosophy.
Philosophy arises from the lack of knowledge.

How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?
     None. The light bulb will change itself when it's ready.
     Just one, but the light bulb really has to want to change.
     Just one, but it takes nine visits.
     "How many do you think it takes?"
     "How long have you been having this phantasy?"

Affective Education*        Danger of Self-Esteem Programs
    [ http://rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/edu.htm ]
Hot Topics in Education -- The Michigan Electronic Library
=>Social Promotion
    [ http://mel.org/education/edu-hot.html ]

FairTest:
  The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
    [ http://www.fairtest.org/ ]

Higher Education
National Education Association
    [ http://www.nea.org/he ]

Blue Ribbon Schools [ http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/BlueRibbonSchools/98-99menu.html ]

Lackland Elementary School [ http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/BlueRibbonSchools/1999Abstracts/16tx21ae.html ]

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[ http://www.home-ed-magazine.com/INF/SPCL/spcl_add.ritalinepdmc.html ]
The Ritalin Epidemic  1998, Jodi Guistolise
The U. S. Department of Education directed all state education offices to see that local school districts establish procedures to screen and identify ADHD children and give them special education and psychological services. Goals 2000 is used to authorize programs in health care and to create a system that enables teachers to select children and have them regularly tested for emotional, social, mental and physical disorders (including ADD/ADHD) in the school clinics. School officials then have the authority to treat them by prescribing and administering mood and behavior altering drugs like Ritalin, Valium, Lorazepam and Prozac.  Putting the authority to diagnose and treat ADD in the school system and funding such services via Medicaid is not going to stem the problem. Parents need to seriously question any diagnosis of disability in their children, explore non-medical options, and fight to keep their rights to oversee the health care of their children.

It has recently come to the attention of the Drug Enforcement Administration that Ciba-Geigy (the manufacturer of the methylphenidate product marketed under the brand name Ritalin) contributed $748,000 to CHADD from 1991 to 1994
[Editor's note: according to Fred A. Baughman, Jr. M.D., the figure is now well over $1,000,000]. A spokesman for Ciba-Geigy stated that "CHADD is essentially a conduit for providing information to the patient population." The relationship between Ciba-Geigy and CHADD raises serious concerns about CHADD's motive in proselytizing the use of Ritalin.

Attention Deficit Disorder: A Dubious Diagnosis?
[ http://www.pbs.org/merrow/tv/add/chadd.html ]
[ http://www.add-adhd.org/ritalin_CHADD_A.D.D.html ]
[ http://www.pbs.org/merrow/news/index.html ] -  [ PBS ]
ADD, Ritalin, CHADD (CH.A.D.D.) and Ciba-Geigy Transcript of A Special Report
PBS and the Merrow Report October 20, 1995
 

Ritalin, A Special Investigative Report    The Merrow team revealed that the manufacturer of Ritalin, Ciba-Geigy, was giving significant funding to CHADD, the largest ADD support group in the US. ... www.breggin.com/merrow.html

Connecticut Approves Ritalin Law -- July 17, 2001
[ http://www.nkmr.org/english/connecticut_approves_ritalin_law.htm ]
[ www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/health/2001-07-17-ritalin-law.htm ]
The law -- approved unanimously by the Legislature and signed by Gov. John G. Rowland last month -- prohibits
          teachers, counselors and other school officials from recommending psychiatric drugs for any child.
Matthew Daly is a writer at Associated Press. This article was previously published on Newsday.com, July 17, 2001.
    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- When Sheila Matthews' son was in first grade, a school psychologist diagnosed him with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and gave his parents information on Ritalin.
    Matthews refused to put him on the drug. She believed the boy was energetic and outgoing but not disruptive, and she suspected the school system was trying to medicate him just to make it easier for the teachers.
    Now the state of Connecticut has weighed in on the side of parents like Matthews with a first-in-the-nation law that reflects a growing backlash against what some see as overuse of Ritalin and other behavioral drugs.
    The law -- approved unanimously by the Legislature and signed by Gov. John G. Rowland last month -- prohibits teachers, counselors and other school officials from recommending psychiatric drugs for any child.
...Concern about Ritalin and other drugs is widespread. The Texas Board of Education adopted a resolution last
          year recommending that schools consider non-medical solutions to behavior problems. The Colorado school
          board approved a similar resolution in 1999, and legislation regarding psychiatric drugs in school has been
          proposed in nearly a dozen states.
...NCHR's Comments
          A great number of children in Sweden and the Nordic countries are being categorised
                  as having behavioural disorders and taken into public care. Doctors and psychologists
                  paste different letter combinations for e.g. DAMP, ADHD etc on them and they are
                  prescribed different drugs to alter their behaviour. We call these children the
                  "abbreviated" children (bokstavsbarnen).
          It is therefore very satisfactory that Connecticut has taken this very important step to
                  stop the chemical lobotomy of children within the State.

***Ritalin: Better Living Through Chemistry? -- November 2000
[ http://www.worldandi.com/public/2000/november/sax.html ]
 ...And managed care began making it harder for family physicians to refer patients to psychiatrists. Again, if you have a choice between writing a prescription for Prozac (elapsed time, one minute) versus calling an HMO for authorization for a psychiatric referral (elapsed time, ten minutes or more, with no guarantee that the authorization will be granted), which would you do?
    By 1990, the majority of prescriptions for Prozac were being written by doctors who were not psychiatrists. The medical profession discovered that no special magic was required to write a prescription for Prozac.  For the most part, patients did fine. In fact, writing a prescription for Prozac in most cases requires less vigilance and less follow-up than writing prescriptions treating high blood pressure or diabetes.
    So why not write a prescription for Ritalin? doctors began asking themselves. Almost all the increased prescribing of Ritalin can be attributed to nonpsychiatrist physicians. But Steven Baldwin, professor of psychology at the University of Teesside, believes that most pediatricians and family physicians are not qualified to distinguish a truly abnormal child from a child who is just exhibiting developmentally normal behavior. "This is a difficult, tricky area," says Baldwin. "Behavior reflects the feelings and thoughts of a child. If a child is running around making a lot of noise, not really settling to anything, you could say the child is being naughty, nasty, or wicked, or you could say the child is anxious, worried and angry because something is on his mind."31 At the congressional hearings on Ritalin mentioned above, Dr. Lawrence Diller suggested that today doctors wouldn't hesitate to put Tom Sawyer or Pippi Longstocking on Ritalin.32

***Pediatricians approve Ritalin treatment plan -- 10/01/2001 - Updated 11:02 AM ET -- By Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY
[ http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/health/2001-10-01-ritalin.htm ]
    Unfortunately, that is typical of what's happening to many U.S. kids now, says behavioral pediatrician Lawrence Diller of Walnut Creek, Calif., author of Running on Ritalin. Already, he says, doctors who use the AAP diagnosis guidelines "describe themselves as the 'loss leaders' of their medical groups," losing the most money because managed care won't pay for the time to do careful workups and monitoring.
    "I fear these new guidelines will encourage a 'pill only' approach," Diller says.  "A lot of families need counseling, but it's easier to get pills than to get insurance to cover the help you need."
    Perrin says AAP will start meeting with managed-care companies next month, trying to convince them that it makes economic sense to pay for the time needed for proper diagnosis and treatment.
    "In the real world, economics is mostly driving the treatment, and guidelines aren't going to change that," Diller says.

When Your Child is too Sick to go to School
    Dr. Sally Robinson and Dr. Keith Bly. Robinson of UTMB.
[ http://www.utmbhealthcare.org/Health%20Source/Article%20Display.asp?Articles=%2056 ]
Colds
    School-aged kids have six to eight colds per year, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Caused by viruses, not by damp weather, colds spread through the air (via cough and sneeze droplets) and by direct contact (touching people and contaminated objects, such as doorknobs, toys and telephone receivers).

http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/corp_funding.html
"Integrity in Science" is a project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
From Data-Base of Non-Profit Organizations with Ties to Industry. [Assesed 2001 refers to lawsuit filled in 2000]
CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER/CHADD
* About 20 percent of the organization’s budget in some years reportedly was underwritten by Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis), the maker of Ritalin. ("ADD - a Dubious Diagnosis?" PBS and the
Merrow Report. [cited Dec. 20, 1995]  ))
* CHADD was reported to have received from drug companies more than $1 million in grants and services. The Drug Enforcement Administration said, "The relationship between Ciba-Geigy and
CHADD raises serious concerns about CHADD’s motive in proselytizing the use of Ritalin." (DEA, "Methylphenidate (a background paper)," October 1995, p.4.)
* CHADD was said to have received about $30,000 from Novartis and ten percent of its income overall from the drug industry. (Phone call, John Heavener, CHADD, to CSPI/M. Jacobson; May 27, 1999.)
* "CHADD received $748,000 from Ciba/Novartis in the period 1991 to 1994 alone." (Law suit No. CV 1839 E (CGA); U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; Vess et al vs. Ciba-Geirgy et al.; 9/13/00)

http://www.ndsn.org/MARCH96/PRESCRP.html
-My note Ritalin is in the same class as cocaine-
March 1996  --  CHADD has petitioned DEA to reschedule Ritalin from schedule II to schedule III in order to make it less expensive and more available. Parker said that when that petition was filed, CHADD had not been aware of abuse of Ritalin.
Recently, CHADD established a project to examine the problem of abuse by children and adults. DEA sent their report about Ciba-Geigy's contributions to CHADD to the Department of Health and Human Services and is waiting for a response before reclassification decisions are made.
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ADHD or "Indoor Air Quality and Student Performance http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/perform.html "
ADHD or "Complication of Colds / Acute Bacterial Middle Ear Infectionhttp://www.commoncold.org/cmplcat1.htm"
ADHD or "upper respiratory infection http://www.healthanswers.com/library/MedEnc/enc/3233.asp"

Colorado School Board Passes Resolution Warning About Ritalin -- Dec 1999
[ http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1999/dec99/ritalin.html ]
DENVER, CO -- The Colorado State School Board passed a resolution on November 11 warning of the possible negative effects of psychotropic (mind-altering) prescription drugs on schoolchildren. The vote was 6-1. Board member Patti Johnson drafted the resolution after a number of parents contacted her complaining that they had been "pressured" by educators to put their children on Ritalin.

Texas State Board of Education Resolution -- Nov 3, 2000
[ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/readings/brainpolitics.html ]
[ http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2001/jan01/tx-resolution.shtml ]

Ritalin links
[ http://www.attention-deficit-disorder.org/news.htm ]

Medical examiner: Ritalin killed 14-year-old boy -- Saturday, April 15, 2000
[ http://detnews.com/2000/metro/0004/15/20000415-37414.htm ]  Associated Press
 CLAWSON -- The Oakland County medical examiner is blaming a drug used to treat hyperactive children for killing a 14-year-old boy.  Matthew Smith died March 21 from damage to his heart caused by years of taking Ritalin, L.J. Dragovic said.
..."There was a chronic change of the heart muscle and the small blood vessels in the heart," Dragovic told The Oakland Press for a story Friday. "This comes from long term exposure."
    Smith had been taking Ritalin for about 10 years.

THE CONGRESS & BIG PHARMA VS. THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
[ http://www.adhdfraud.org/commentary/8-8-01-2.htm ]
by Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD 8/8/01 (427 wd)
[July 23, 2001 Public Citizen Report Exposes Drug Industry’s 625
Washington Lobbyists and Spending Blitz to Keep Prices and Profits High
WASHINGTON, D.C.]
...The drug industry claims to work for consumers while it uses profits
from sales to buy access to lawmakers and defeat pro-consumer
legislation.
Their 625 lobbyists last year was more than one for every member of
Congress at a cost of $92.3 million per year.
...The width and breadth of this invasion of the government is decidedly
cancer-like. When they pass mental health parity legislation, calling millions
of normal Americans "diseased"/"abnormal"/ "patients" in need of/ requiring
(increasingly by court order) forced "treatment," drugs, incarceration,
electro-shock, psychosurgery, we are Americans no longer.

Narcolepy can be caused by [ http://swdca.org/nc-mistake.html ] "These can include going to bed around the same time every night and getting up around the same time in the morning; spending enough time in bed; avoiding alcohol, caffeine or chocolate before bed; and trying not to nap during the day at the expense of nighttime sleep."

"·Narcolepsy: [ http://speakout.com/activism/news/5761-1.html ]A pervasive and recurrent need to sleep when you want to be awake, often in the middle of a meal, or in a car. ·Restless legs syndrome: Tingling sensations in the legs, and an urge to stretch, bend, or rub them. ·Sleep apnea: Brief pauses in breathing during sleep, accompanied by snoring or choking sensations. ·Insomnia: Waking up frequently in the night, having trouble falling asleep again, waking up and not feeling rested." "Some of them assume it's a built-in inability to concentrate; for many it's simply lack of sleep that makes it so difficult to read a page from bottom to top."

Parents, the school districts and other interested parties are generally unaware that use of Ritalin can cause a significant number of health problems and risks such as rapid heart beat, growth problems (pituitary dysfunction), weight loss, hypertension, arrythmia, blurred vision, headache, dizziness, psychosis, rash/conjunctivitis/hives, hallucinations, hair loss, depression or excitement, dermatitis, convulsions and seizures, anorexia, enuresis, drowsiness, fever, confusion, joint pain, insomnia, agitation, irritation, anxiety, nervousness, hostility, unhappiness, insomnia, impaired mental abilities, and worsening of ADHD-like symptoms. [ http://www.life.ca/nl/76/ritalin.html ]

A careful medical examination in advance of a drug test is regarded as essential to insure that the prisoners involved do not show signs of subtle disabilities that would make the study invalid.

PROZAC, ZOLOFT, PAXIL, LUVOX, SERZONE, EFFEXOR, ANAFRANIL, FENFLURAMINE (Fen-Phen and Redux), DESERYL, MERIDIA, OR ANY OTHER DRUG DESIGNED TO INCREASE SEROTONIN
LATEST MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION REVEALS THESE SERIOUS PROBLEMS:
"I am alarmed at the monster that Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Solomon Snyder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago. Prozac and other antidepressant serotonin-receptor-active compounds may also cause cardiovascular problems in some susceptible people after long-term use, which has become common practice despite the lack of safety studies. "The public is being misinformed about the precision of these selective serotonin-uptake inhibitors when the medical profession oversimplifies their action in the brain and ignores the body as if it exists merely to carry the head around! In short, these molecules of emotion regulate every aspect of our physiology. A new paradigm has evolved, with implications that life-style changes such as diet and exercise can offer profound, safe and natural mood elevation." Candace B. Pert, Research Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington; Letter to the Editor of TIME Magazine, October 20, 1997, page 8. [ http://members.aol.com/atracyphd/index.htm#appear ]

A Diagnosis Excess? A Lawsuit Alleges Attention Deficit Disorder Is Over-Diagnosed, Dec 17, 2000                        [ http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/ritalin_lawsuit0808.html ] {found Oct 27, 2001}

Class Action Lawsuit Filed About Ritalin "The suit states allegations based on fraud and conspiracy. From approximately 1955 through 1995, the exclusive or primary manufacturer and supplier of Ritalin in the United States was the defendant Ciba-Geigy Corp., U.S.A. In 1996 Ciba-Geigy merged with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp. to become defendant Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. Ciba/Novartis has manufactured, marketed and sold Ritalin since approximately 1955.

      The suit asserts that in addition to its actions and involvement with the creation of the ADD and ADHD diagnosis, Ciba/Novartis took steps to promote and dramatically increase the sales of Ritalin by way of the following:

*Actively promoting and supporting the concept that a significant percentage of children suffer from a "disease" which required narcotic treatment/therapy

*Actively promoting Ritalin as the drug of choice to treat children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD

*Actively supporting groups such as CHADD, both financially and with other means, so that such organizations would promote and support (as a supposed neutral party) the ever-increasing implementation of ADD/ADHD diagnoses as well as directly increasing Ritalin sales

*Distributing misleading sales and promotional literature to parents, schools and other interested persons in a successful effort to further increase the number of diagnoses and the number of persons prescribed Ritalin

"It is also alleged that CHADD has been a recipient of financial donations and contributions from Defendants Ciba/Novartis for many years. CHADD received $748,000 from Ciba/Novartis in the period 1991 to 1994 alone. During the periods when CHADD received funding from Ciba/Novartis, CHADD deliberately made efforts to increase the sales of Ritalin, and to increase the supply of methylphenidate (the generic name for Ritalin) available in the United States, and to reduce or eliminate laws and restrictions concerning the use of Ritalin and methylphenidate in the United States, all to the financial benefit of Ciba/Novartis. Ciba/Novartis made such financial contributions with the purpose of advertising and promoting sales of Ritalin ­ an internationally controlled substance. Ciba/Novartis has thus repeatedly violated Article 10 of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1019 U.N.T.S. 175 (1971)."
[ http://www.life.ca/nl/76/ritalin.html ] [ http://www.bio-medical.com/adhd_0002.htm ]

[ http://www.google.com/search?q=ritalin+chadd+Diabetes+ ]
[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/medicating/backlash/lawsuits.html]

To Drug or Not to Drug,    Class-Action Lawsuit over Ritalin Brewing,    Lindsey Townsend,    {assessed Oct 17, 2001}
    [ http://www.learnwhatsup.com/prc/health/ADHD/drug.html ]
    "The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information estimates that
     between 2-3.5 million school-aged children have the disorder."
    [1] Vess v. Ciba-Geigy Corp., No. 00-CV-1839 (S.D. Cal., Sept. 13, 2000) The class representatives
      are represented by Donald F. Hildre, Thomas D. Haklar and Peggy J. Reali of Dougherty Hildre Dudek
      & Haklar in San Diego; Marc C. Saperstein and Kevin Decie of Davis Saperstein & Solomon in
      Teaneck, N.J.; John P. McCoale and Diane Cooley of Coale Cooley Leitz McInerny & Broadus in
      Washington, D.C.; Richard Scruggs of Scruggs Millette Boveman & Dent in Pascagoula, Miss.; and C.
      Andrew Waters of Waters & Kraus in Dallas.
Drug marketing is widespread        June 10, 2001    By Mary Beth Pfeiffer    Poughkeepsie Journal
        [ http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/projects/adhd/co061001s2.shtml ]
        "Nonetheless, the organization's president himself has expressed misgivings
        about the support. In the APA newsletter Psychiatric News, Daniel
        Borenstein ad-dressed ''the significant presence, if not dominance, of
        pharmaceutical companies'' at APA's annual meeting in May 2000.

        ''APA is overly dependent on pharmaceutical companies,'' he wrote,
        expressing particular concern over ''free, lavish outside social and
        recreational events'' that had nothing to do with research or treatment.

        In 1998, Loren Mosher, a psychiatrist and expert on community mental
        health, resigned from APA saying he did not want to be ''a drug company
        patsy.''

        ''The major reason for this action is my belief that I am actually resigning
        from the American Psychopharmacological Association,'' he wrote in his
        resignation letter. ''Psychiatry has been almost completely bought out by the
        drug companies.'' "

Location of Ciba and Novartis - Today Geneva's private bankers are still flourishing and Basle is home to Roche and Novartis, two of the world's top pharmaceutical companies as well as two of the biggest speciality chemical companies - Ciba and Clariant. But Zurich has emerged as Switzerland's undisputed commercial and financial capital. More than 60 of Switzerland's top 100 companies lie within a 50km radius of Zurich airport and over 20 per cent of Switzerland's gross domestic product is produced in the canton.
[ http://specials.ft.com/ln/ftsurveys/country/sc2ff6.htm ]
[ http://www.glp.admin.ch/facilities/ ]
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http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthcare/st/st000332.php3
PATIENT STORY
A Simple Test Would Have Saved His Hearing
Kyle, 3 - Bakersfield, CA -- [Shipton's note, story starts from 1992 and goes to 1994, 1995.
How many others have needed specialists?]
This child did not get propt attention with tubes till his ear drum had ruptured. At six months he started being treated for ear infections but it seems to have been 18 months till tubes were put in his ears. Ten days after getting tubes the child's right ear began to bleed and the ear was treated with ear drops and aspiration instead of checking for a cholosteatoma with a CAT scan.

"A CAT scan then would have provided conclusive evidence of a cholosteatoma -- severe infection that destroys the bone in the inner ear. Instead , the HMO chose to withhold that test."

"They had to do a radical mastoidectomy, which included removing all of the bones (with the exception of the stapes) in his middle ear. There is a 70% chance of success for this procedure.

We are now facing another surgery for our son this year to attempt to reconstruct the middle ear and are anticipating "significant" hearing loss as he reaches adolescence.

Because of the ERISA loophole, the first HMO is shielded from legal liability for withholding medically appropriate treatment. The few dollars the HMO saved by withholding a CAT scan could have led to meningitis, or even killed Kyle. Until HMOs are held accountable for denying or withholding care, there is no incentive for them to perform tests that could lead to expensive treatments."

In 1997,
Texas became the first state in the nation to offer its citizens a way around ERISA by holding HMOs liable for medical negligence and poor quality of care, which in contrast to coverage employee-employer disputes, are not preempted by ERISA.

1996
Exposed various managed care contracts and internal documents revealing the existence of gag orders, loyalty oaths, and the fact that financial incentives paid to HMO doctors for care denials are kept from patients.

1994-1995
Exposed the cost-slashing in Kaiser Permanente's 1995-1997 Business Plan, including bonuses paid to doctors for rationing high cost drugs and limiting hospital admissions. Subsequently, Kaiser ended these practices.

New York doctors sue six HMOs for wrongful practices
By Vicki Lankarge -- insure.com [ http://www.insure.com/states/ny/health/suehmos801.html ]

The six separate lawsuits name Aetna, CIGNA, Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Excellus, Oxford, and UnitedHealthcare. They echo claims made in similar lawsuits against health plans that are now sitting before a federal judge in Miami who must decide whether to grant the lawsuits class action status or dismiss the cases entirely

The MSSNY lawsuits were filed Aug. 15, 2001, in New York State Supreme Court.

MSSNY President Dr. Robert Bonvino says the legal actions are "the culmination of years of intransigence by the managed care insurance carriers." Additionally, he says that "thousands of doctors across New York State, and across the country, are forced to deal as individuals with these multibillion-dollar monoliths which have assumed control over our lives, the lives of our patients, and the practice of medicine."

Familiar charges The allegations outlined in the lawsuits have become familiar. Among them are allegations that the insurers:

• Arbitrarily reduce a physician's payment for medically necessary care by "downcoding," or changing claims and billing codes to indicate a doctor should be paid less. (For example, a doctor conducts an extensive office visit with a patient who has a number of health problems, but is reimbursed only for a simple office visit that is far shorter and less complicated.)
• Bundle claims, or issue a single payment for a group of related medical services, rather than paying for each service individually.
• Arbitrarily overrule a physician's determination of medical necessity without conducting a proper analysis or review.
• Fail to pay physicians in a timely fashion. Fail to pay interest on overdue claims payments according to the state's prompt payment law.
• Force physicians and their staffs to expend an unreasonable amount of time and resources attempting to obtain reimbursement to which they are entitled.
• Exploit the doctors' unequal bargaining power to force physicians to enter into one-sided HMO contracts.

Illinois dentists have sued Aetna Inc., charging the nation's largest health insurer with libel and breach of contract.
-- The UCR fee is typically the "going rate" charged
by health care providers in a specific geographic location.--
The American Dental Association (ADA) and two of its member dentists filed the lawsuit in federal court in Chicago on Aug. 15, 2001. The dentists — who do not belong to Aetna's provider network — treat many Aetna subscribers who have health plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The lawsuit alleges Aetna violated ERISA rules when it failed to pay the dentists' actual charges for treatment they gave to Aetna members.

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http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZ99MM9MSC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0
Physicians File Class Action  --  Under Texas Theft Liability Act
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View&c=Article&cid=ZZZ99MM9MSC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&showsummary=0
Mary Alice Robbins
Texas Lawyer
October 10, 2001

*********
News From the UAPD
... August 6, 2001 News ... May 14, 2001 News Release, ... Unions. 07/16/99 News ... Right To Sue
Their HMOs. ... to Organize Doctors. 02/23 ... 23/99 New York Times, Angered by HMO's ...
In Texas, with the support of Gov. George Bush, the law was changed in 1997 to let HMOs be sued for malpractice.
http://www.uapd.com/press/newsfromthe.htm - 24k

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http://www.mssny.org/members_only/news/NNY/2001/articles/sept2001articles.htm
MSSNY Launches Major Class Action Litigation Against Six Prominent HMOs
On Thursday, August 16, MSSNY, on behalf of its 27,000 member physicians, filed six separate legal actions against six of the largest managed care insurance carriers in New York. The actions were filed in New York State Supreme Court and requested injunctive relief from a series of destructive, ongoing practices by managed care insurance carriers. In addition, six class action lawsuits were also filed on behalf of individual physician members of MSSNY — against the same six managed care insurance carriers — seeking monetary damages for the alleged abusive practices.

*********
Leadership Forum -- One Down, Two to Go
http://www.mssny.org/members_only/news/NNY/2001/articles/sept2001articles.htm#Leadership_Forum
Robert Bonvino, MD
MSSNY President
Front-page headlines across the state succinctly told the story — “NY Doctors Sue Six
HMOs.” Long Island’s Newsday said, “Docs Strike Back,” and the Wall Street Journal and the
New York Times both reported on the legal actions launched by MSSNY on August 15. Dozens
of TV news reports were aired, and MSSNY received hundreds of communiqués from physicians across the country.
The reaction from the physician community was overwhelming and positive. The reaction from the HMO community was — as expected — straight out of fantasyland.
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CERN -- European Organization for Nuclear Research -- World Wide Web
Location. The Laboratory straddles the Swiss-French border near Geneva, in two major sites
    [ http://press.web.cern.ch/CERN/Location.html ]
A CERN invention you are familiar with:  the World Wide Web
    [ http://map.web.cern.ch/Public/ACHIEVEMENTS/web.html ]
CERN Press Release CERN celebrates 40th Anniversary    {1954-1994}
    [ http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/CERN-PR11_94E40thAnni.html ]
CERN stock quotes
    [ http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcern%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG&q=stocks:CERN+ ]
World Wide Web People
WARNING: For Archival/Historical Interest -- The following document dates from 1994 and has not been updated
    [ http://www.w3.org/People.html ]    [ http://www.w3.org/People/ ]        [ http://www.w3.org/ ]
An obsolete type of particle accelerator - [ http://www.improb.com/bookstore/posters/particle.html ]
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Mental Health Courts - New York
 

New York Research Ban Has National Implications Oct 1997
Academic Medicine Events & News     By Gina Shaw
    [ http://www.aamc.org/newsroom/reporter/oct97/apbr.htm ]
List of New York State Agencies
     [ http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/ils/nyserver.html ]
Statement of Jacqueline Shannon, President, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI), Regarding Mental
Illness Parity, Submitted to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, United States Senate
             For Immediate Release, July 11, 2001
    [ http://www.nami.org/update/20010730.html ]

 Help End School Violence: NAMI Calls for Routine Screening of Children for Mental Illness Early Warning Signs Listed
    [ http://www.nami.org/pressroom/20010313.html ]
Senate Allocates Funds for Federal Mental Health Courts Program: Grassroots Action Requested(8 Aug 01)
    [ http://www.nami.org/update/20010807.htm ]

SEATTLE MENTAL HEALTH COURT PUTS TREATMENT BEFORE JAIL:
A new method of intervention for mentally ill criminal offenders
By Silja J.A. Talvi  {assessed through Google Oct 17, 2001} possible this was written Febuary of 1998
    [ http://www.well.com/~sisu/mentalhealth.html ]

Case Law In New York {assessed Oct 17, 2001}
Health Care Decisionmaking and Declarations in New York
    [ http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/bioethics/case.html ]

New York School of Law
Online Education Program in Mental Disability Law
    [ http://www.nyls.edu/content.php?ID=582 ]
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Canadian Blood Victims File Suit,Consider Naming Clinton By RICKI MAGNUSSEN
[ http://etherzone.com/bloodgate2.html ] Published in the Feb 1, 1999 issue of The Washington Weekly. Copyright © 1999 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com). Reposting permitted with this message intact.

Canadians In Pursuit of Liberty {links}A group of FReepers from around the world dedicated to telling the story of the Tainted Blood Scandal ... particularly in the United States, the headwaters for much of the tainted product which has infected and slain thousands upon thousands of innocent victims worldwide. Too few Americans (who may or may not have noticed the trials of French ministers and actual imprisonment of their Japanese counterparts) understand that:
[ http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profile?op=show&user=BLOODHOUND%20(askel5) ] links
[ http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a25d4805897.htm ] forum

Links - Last update: 06/10/01 [ http://www.seark.net/~budge/page43.htm ] links

BLOOD TRAIL: Confidential Memo Reveals HPB's Threat to Notify Countries That Got Tainted Arkansas Prison Blood
[ http://206.112.97.70/forum/a376bbc1e60cb.htm ]

A tale of two bloodgates: another media cover-up By Gerard Jackson No. 108, 21-27 February 1999
"A Press Conference will be held on February 24 at the National Press Club in Washington to demand a federal investigation into Clinton's 'bloodgate' scandal. Will Cameron Forbes and Cameron Stewart (The Australian's New York correspondent) be there? I doubt it. Caped Crusaders they ain't. In fact, I don't even consider them to be real journalists. Forbes couldn't hotfoot it fast enough to Jasper, Texas, to report on a race-inspired murder. And Stewart couldn't get to Wyoming fast enough either when it was claimed a young man had been murdered for being a homosexual. But neither of them ever bothered to scurry down Arkansas way to investigate a single Clinton scandal."
[ http://www.newaus.com.au/news108forbes.html ]

Arkansas Bloodsuckers -
   The year Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas, the Arkansas state prison board awarded a lucrative contract to a Little Rock company called Health Management Associates or HMA. The company was paid $3 million a year to run medical services for the state's troubled prison system, which had been excoriated in a ruling by the US Supreme Court as an "evil place run by some evil men."
   By the late 1980s, Arkansas was the only prison in the United States still running a blood program.
   The program stayed in operation until Bill Clinton moved to Washington. It was finally shut down in 1993 by his successor, Jim "Guy" Tucker. CP [ http://www.counterpunch.org/blood.html ]

Blood money - "An Arkansas prison-plasma business protected by Clinton cronies led to a scandal that almost toppled the government -- of Canada." "Blood Gate * At least 42,000 Canadians have been infected with hepatitis C, and thousands more with the HIV virus, thanks to poorly screened plasma. Some of it has been traced back to the Cummins prison in Arkansas. More than 7,000 Canadians are expected to die as a result of the blood scandal. The Canadian Krever Commission, established in 1993 to investigate the tainted-blood epidemic, concluded the government did not adequately supervise the Red Cross of Canada, the agency responsible for making sure that blood suppliers maintained adequate screening standards. As a result of the scandal, the Red Cross has been stripped of responsibility for the blood system."
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/12/cov_23news.html

Clinton Visited Prison Plasma Collection Facility Ricki Magnussen Febuary 8, 1999 -
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/2/10/185557

Tainted Arkansas Prison Blood May Have Infected Americans Ricki Magnussen and Marvin Lee Feb 15, 1999 -
"Health Management Associates was selling blood from the Arkansas prison system until 1994. Connaught in Canada stopped buying blood and blood plasma from them in 1990. Where did they sell their blood from 1990 to 1994?" asks Steve Grissom, President of the U.S. National Association for Victims of Transfusion-Acquired AIDS (NAVTA).
http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/2/15/94906

Dumping scandal: ----THE EXPORT OF BAD BLOOD One thousand Canadian victims demand answers from Clinton and others about the export of contaminated blood products from U.S. prisons long after they were no longer sold domestically. BY SUZI PARKER http://www.salon.com/news/1999/02/25news.html

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1) there may have never been a poliovirus epidemic in the first place, 2) the poliovirus has never been pure isolated, and 3) no evidence exists to show that the poliovirus acts alone to cause poliomyelitis.[ http://www.chronicillnet.org/online/bensweet.html ]
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Oil; Thomas Gold * is oil a bacterial byproduct? Thomas Gold -- "The Deep Hot Bioshpere," http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/tg21/
The Theory of Unlimited Oil One Heretic Predicts More Oil to Be Drilled in the Ground By Kevin Newman -- March 16 http://more.abcnews.go.com/onair/closerlook/wnt_000316_cl_oilheretic_feature.html
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I ran across this next item and have not been able to get in touch with the author.  Will someone do so - so that I may make sure of his approval for it to be here?
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> Subject: I Agree...
>
> This letter was written by Eric Jowers, a retired Army Officer,
> who served as public affairs officer at Fort Rucker from 1989 to 1991.
> He now lives in Ozark, Alabama.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Dear Mr. President:
> It's not about sex.
> If it were about sex, you would be long gone.
> Just like a doctor, attorney or teacher who had
> sex with a patient, client or student half his age,
> you would have violated the ethics of your office
> and would be long gone.
> Just like a Sergeant Major of the Army, Gene McKinney,
> who though found not guilty, was forced to resign
> amid accusations of sexual abuse.
>
> Remember the Air Force General you wouldn't
> nominate to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
> because he freely admitted to an affair almost 15
> years before, while he and his wife were separated?
> Unlike you, he was never accused of having a
> starry-eyed office assistant my daughter's age
> perform oral sex on him while he was on the
> phone and his wife and daughter were upstairs.
>
> If it were about sex, you should be subjected to the
> same horrible hearings that Clarence Thomas was
> subjected to because of the accusations of Anita Hill.
> The only accusation then was that he talked dirty to her;
> he didn't even leave semen stains on her dress.
> No, it's not about sex.
> It's about character.
> It's about lying.
> It's about arrogance.
> It's about abuse of power.
> It's about dodging the draft and lying about it.
> When caught in a lie by letters you wrote,
> you concocted a story that nobody believed.
> But we excused it and looked away.
>
> It's about smoking dope, and lying about it.
> "I didn't inhale," you said.
> Sure, and when I was 15 and my buddies and I
> swiped a beer from an unwatched refrigerator,
> we drank from it, but we didn't swallow.
> "I broke no laws of the United States," you said.
> That's right, you smoked dope in England or Norway or
> Moscow; where you were demonstrating against the U.S.A.
> You lied, but we excused it and looked away.
>
> It's about you selling overnight stays in the White House to
> any foreigner or other contributor with untraceable cash.
> It's about Whitewater and Jim and Susan McDougal and
> Arkansas, Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and Vincent Foster and
> Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones and Karen Willey and
> nearly countless others.
>
> It's about stealing the records from Foster's office while his
> body was still warm and putting them in your bedroom and
> "not noticing them" for two years.
>
> It's about illegal political contributions.
> It's about you and Al Gore soliciting contributions and selling
> influence at Buddhist temples and in the same Oval Office
> where Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt led their
> countries through the dark days of wars that threatened the
> very existence of our nation.
> But we excused you and looked away.
>
> It's about hiding evidence from Ken Starr, refusing to testify,
> filing legal motions, coaching witnesses, obstructing justice
> and delaying Judge Starr's inquiry for months and years,
> and then complaining that it has gone on too long.
> The polls agreed.
> Thank goodness that Judge Starr didn't read the polls,
> play politics or excuse you and look away.
> He held on to the evidence like a tenacious bulldog.
>
> Your supporters say that you've confessed your wrong doings
> and asked for our forgiveness.
> Listen, what you said on TV the night you testified to the grand
> jury was not a confession; overwhelming evidence is not a
> confession at all.
> Not that it would make a lot of difference.
> A murderer who contritely confesses his crime is still a murderer.
> When your "confession" didn't sell, even to your friends, you
> became more forthcoming.
>
> Maybe someday you'll confess more, but probably not.
> You've established such a pattern of lying that we can't
> believe you anymore.
> Neither can your cabinet, the Congress or any of the leaders
> of the nations of the world.
>
> When a leader's actions defame and emasculate our country
> as profoundly as yours have, it's no longer a personal matter,
> as you claim.
> It's no longer a matter among you, your family and your God.
>
> By the way, I don't believe for a minute that Hillary was unaware of
> your sexual misadventures, abuses of power and pattern of lying.
> She has been a party to your wrong doings since Whitewater
> and Jennifer Flowers just as surely as she lied about the Rose
> law firm's billings and hid the Vincent Foster evidence in your
> bedroom for two years.
> Why? So she could share in the raw power that your office carries.
> The two of you probably lied to Chelsea, but that is a matter among
> you, your family and your God.
>
> Remember the sign over James Carvill's desk during the l992 campaign?
> It said, "It's the economy, stupid! Place this sign over your desk:
> "It's about character, stupid!"
> No, it's not about sex, Mr. President.
> If it were, you would be long gone.
> It's about character; but we have to live with your filth,
> lies and arrogance for a while longer.
> Your lies, amorality and lack of character have been as
> pervasive as they have been despicable, so we have no
> reason to believe that you will quietly resign and go away.
> You'll count on half truths and spin doctors to see you through,
> the country be damned.
> It has always worked before.
> We excused you and looked the other way.
>
> No more, we've had enough. You betrayed us enough.
> You have made every elected official, minister, teacher,
> diplomat, parent and grandparent in the country apologize
> for you and explain away your actions.
> Now go away, and let us show them that our country was
> not without morals.
> It was just that you were.
> Let us show them that America was not the problem.
> William Jefferson Clinton was.
>
> Go away, Mr. President. Leave us alone.
> And when you leave, know that your legacy to the United States
> of America will be a stain on the Office of the President that is as
> filthy as the stain on Monica's dress.
> It will take a lot of scrubbing to make it clean again.
====================

William Jefferson Blythe iv * 42nd US President * Governor of Arkansas 1978-80, 1982-92 *
Arkansas Attorney General 1976-78 * Born : August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas * Father : Willian Jefferson Blythe III * Roger Clinton (stepfather) * Mother : Virginia Divine Blythe Clinton * Spouse : Hillary Rodham (1947- ), m: October 11, 1975 * Children : Chelsea Victoria Clinton (1980- )

Thomas Jefferson Gate * Clinton's grave-digging character assassins in the media did not establish with "near certainty" that Jefferson fathered any of Hemings children. In fact, the medical group who did the study could find no evidence, genetic or otherwise, that he and Hemings were ever sexually involved. The test that Forbes falsely claimed definitely established Jefferson's patrimony only proved that a Hemings descendent had Jefferson genes, not that they had Thomas Jefferson's genes. What Forbes did not report is that one of a number of other Jeffersons living in the area could have fathered Sally Hemings child. This fact was confirmed by Dr. Foster, the pathologist who coordinated the DNA study. He made it clear that group's genetic findings did not rule out other Jefferson males. Another fact Forbes neglected to report. Moreover, Dr. Foster freely admitted that he knew the findings would not be conclusive. In other words, the study was flawed. Yet Forbes wrote as if the study's results were definitive. Why? [ http://www.newaus.com.au/us104jefferson.html ]
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, ...it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
Blood Gate / AIDS GATE * At least 42,000 Canadians have been infected with hepatitis C, and thousands more with the HIV virus, thanks to poorly screened plasma. Some of it has been traced back to the Cummins prison in Arkansas. More than 7,000 Canadians are expected to die as a result of the blood scandal. The Canadian Krever Commission, established in 1993 to investigate the tainted-blood epidemic, concluded the government did not adequately supervise the Red Cross of Canada, the agency responsible for making sure that blood suppliers maintained adequate screening standards. As a result of the scandal, the Red Cross has been stripped of responsibility for the blood system.
*Interestingly enough, a few days after White House Counsel Vince Foster/Clinton-HMA bagman was found dead in Ft. Marcy Park, someone rang up the White House to tell them Foster had been recently been "very distressed" over "tainted blood." When one of Foster's secretaries in the White House Counsel's office, Linda Tripp, tried to field a call about tainted blood, she ran into encryption problems on the White House computer system. Of course, Gator McBurt did his time in the early 70s. But dangerous blood programs in Arkansas prisons predated the Clinton Era. In fact, a 1969 New York Times article details the hepatits-ridden blood program run at Cummins by Dr. Austin R. Stough from 1963-67, a good ten years before Dr. Francis "Bud" Henderson and the HMA moved in. http://www.homegame.org/HG/u-z/wlite.html
Vince Foster 1993 * "Foster called his doctor on the 19 July, 1993, to complain about depression. The following day he left the White House alone at 1 pm. At five that evening he was found dead in the park with a bullet in his head and a .38 in his hand. The body was only a 20 minute walk from the White House" "Equally curious is the testimony of Linda Tripp, White House Counsel Bernie Nussbaum's secretary, to the Committee"[ http://www.newaus.com.au/news25wilson.html ]
White Water 1996* Vince Foster( Updated: May 22, 2001 Clinton continues to mull pardons January 20, 2001)"Webster Hubbell, Mrs. Clinton's former law partner, and Susan McDougal, the Clintons' former business partner in the Whitewater real estate venture." "Milken's crimes cost investors more than $1 billion and hurt the markets' credibility, Richard Walker, the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement director, told White House Counsel Beth Nolan in a letter last month."
[http://www.nandotimes.com/special/01inauguration/transition/story/0,5539,500301694-500482394-503314417-0-,00.html]
Cattle Futures 1978-79 * Hillary Clinton Futures Trades Detailed By Charles R. Babcock Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 27, 1994; Page A01 - "Blair, who at the time was outside counsel to Tyson Foods Inc., Arkansas' largest employer, says he was advising Clinton out of friendship, not to seek political gain for his state-regulated client. At the time of many of the trades, Bill Clinton was governor." "While Clinton's account was wildly successful to an outsider, it was small compared to what others were making in the cattle futures market in the 1978-79 period. An investigation of the cattle futures market at that time by Rep. Neal Smith (D-Iowa) found that in one 16-month period 32 traders made more than $110 million in profits from large trades -- those of 50 contracts or more. Clinton traded positions of 50 or more contracts only three times."[ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940527.htm ], Cattlegate
    [ http://www.conservative.org/book/chapter3.htm ]
Sugar Futures 1980 * in fact, she admitted that while she was in labor with Chelsea, she was worrying about her sugar futures. [ http://www.conservative.org/book/chapter3.htm ]
Travelgate *
Filegate *
Paula Jones 1991* Tuesday May 27 5:55 PM EDT Court: Clinton Must Face Sex Harassment Suit WASHINGTON (Reuter) - A unanimous Supreme Court handed President Clinton a stinging defeat Tuesday, ruling that Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against him can proceed immediately rather than wait until he leaves office... In a landmark ruling, all nine justices held for the first time that a lawsuit against a sitting president for conduct unrelated to official duties may proceed to trial. The ruling involved only when the case goes forward, not the merits of Jones' allegations that Clinton made unwanted sexual advances in 1991 in a Little Rock hotel room when he was governor of Arkansas and she was a state employee.
Monica Lewinsky *

This article appeared in the Washington Times on June 1, 2000. Can you say Sen. Clinton? By Karl Zinsmeister
   "Health Care Task Force's end runs around government sunshine laws, the Travelgate vindictiveness, the gravely troubling FBI file snooping, the cattle futures miracle, the Castle Grande hustle and other Whitewater business, the missing billing records, the Chinese cash drop in the White House, even the Monica cover-up."
    "Hillary Clinton has been intimately involved in a long string of heavy-handed proposals for remaking everything from public schooling to job markets to family life. The years she served as chair of the federal government's Legal Services Corp. under Jimmy Carter were the looniest in the history of that often-loony organization. Under her tenure, the organization sued New York City to overturn its policy against putting heroin addicts to work on subways. It sued to force schools to use racial quotas in handing out school suspensions. It sued to make states extend welfare benefits to alcoholics and drug addicts on the grounds that their addiction was a disability. (And after Jimmy Carter lost his re-election bid, there was wholesale document shredding at Hillary's Legal Services Corp.)"

How to Launder Money in the Futures Market by J. Orlin Grabbe [ http://www.aci.net/kalliste/futlaund.htm ]
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1990 Entomologist Robert A. Smith, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
extends the Darwinian idea of natural selection. He puts forth the idea that, due to multiple matings with different partners, a
woman's egg experiences competition among sperm to determine which man's sperm will triumph. Stressing that sperm stay
alive in a woman's body as long as 10 days, he posits what he calls "kamikaze sperm" from an individual male, which may band together to block a competing male's sperm.

1991 Article in New York Times, "Psychiatry for Profit: Private Hospitals Under Fire." Law enforcement agencies in several
states investigate incidents of hospitals systematically mistreating, abusing and misdiagnosing people to maximize money from
insurance claims.

1992 The Washington Post reports testimony from numerous witnesses before a congressional committee that "thousands of
people, mostly adolescents, were unnecessarily admitted to psychiatric hospitals during the last decade as a part of
money-making schemes that milked insurance companies but offered little in the way of treatment..." Several experts state that
children were often hospitalized under the guise of treating problems that were actually behavioral or scholastic and did not
require psychiatric intervention. Psychiatric hospitals engaged in strong and persistent marketing techniques, taking advantage of the vague, ambiguous nature of psychiatric diagnoses to make profits from increased admissions. One Nevada hospital
routinely placed newspaper ads at the time of report cards that suggested poor scholastic performance could be a sign of
mental illness. Some hospital chains established adolescent "residential treatment centers.î Witnesses further testified that
patients were kept until their insurance coverage was exhausted and then declared fit to be discharged.

1992 The Board of Directors of the American Medical Association are informed that the president elect of the World Medical Association, Dr. Hans Joachim Sewering, is a past member of the SS and there is evidence of his having participated in the Nazi euthanasia program. Sewering resigns, protesting that there is a "world Jewish conspiracy" against him. (In 1946,
Sewering was convicted of being an SS member and fined 1,500 German marks.) Dr. Sewering alleges he knew nothing of any killing taking place at Elfging-Haar or other sanitoria in Germany during the Nazi regime. However, his signature is on a 1943 transfer order sending an epileptic child to Elfging-Haar where, three weeks later, the child died. Nuns at Schoenbrunn
Sanatorium say (in 1992) that everyone at Schoenbrunn knew euthanasia was carried out at Elfging-Haar, and that 900
children had been transferred there.

1994 Hand-held computers in use as a tool for psychiatric therapy as new "cybershrink" technology gains popularity. In work
underwritten by a fellowship from the German government, a Stanford researcher states, "The computer is the link between the sessions and real life." The patient interacts with a computer carried on their person, using a software program designed to help allay phobias called "Fear Busters." The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the software program "puts the essentials of therapy at the patient's fingertips, asking questions to keep patients focused and offering encouragement.

Fall, 1997 An article in the Readers Digest 75th Anniversary Supplement entitled ìComing Soon: Medical Miracles that Could Save your Lifeî discusses the development of computer chips which function like networks of brain cells to replace damaged portions of the brain. Researchers have already cultured animal brain cells directly onto the chips. Theodore Berger, professor of biomedical engineering at U.S.C. says, ìThe next big challenge will be to see if the neurons in the brain and the computer chip can communicate with one another. Itís just a question of adapting and applying them to model the brainís functions.î

"Quote from Benno Muller Hill "Murderous Science.î "It seems to me that to reduce other people to the status of
depersonalized objects is of no help to them whatsoever. The 'scientific' psychiatrist does not console those in despair, he calls them depressed. He does not unravel the tangled thoughtprocesses of the confused, he calls them schizophrenic. If he speaks to those in despair, to the confused, to those who think slowly, as a wise, friendly person speaks to another person, then he is no longer considered to be an objective scientist but a ...well, what would he be? We have no appropriate word to describe such persons. When we envisage them, we must admit that their training could not and cannot take place within any of the existing university specialties.....Could it not be that as anthropology and psychiatry advance, the patient, the 'other person' continually becomes more remote and less significant? Is this whole style of investigation, together with its predictions, anything more than an ever more marked degradation of the individual until he becomes a mere cipher? It seems to me that the inexorable encroachment of science, which began in the eighteenth century during the 'Age of Enlightenment', on activities more properly belonging to the human individual who speaks and gives signs, has had unforeseen and devastating effects."

Quote from The Myth of the Hyperactive Child by Schrag and Divoky:

"There are scores of examples and hundreds of illustrative horror stories: stories about children who grow bone thin and
zombielike from the effects of the drugs they take; stories of parents who are told to have their children started on medication if they don't want them expelled from school or placed in a "special" class; cases where parents have found themselves described in their children's school records as "radicals,î "militants" or alcoholics or as unfit to raise children; instances where the police or the schools routinely inform employers about old and unsubstantiated charges against adolescent job applicants; communities which require children to furnish extensive personal information about their parents; and, at the extreme, cases where doctors perform psychosurgery on sevenyearold "hyperactive" children to make them docile. But what appears most significant is that all these examples are part of a phenomenon in which the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts, a spreading ideology of "early intervention" and "treatment" in which the language and, often, the techniques of medicine are used extensively to serve the purposes of social control. That ideology is not the particular province of any single set of institutions, nor is it limited to certain sections of the country; increasingly it pervades all the major institutions dealing with the young: schools, probation departments, clinics, the federal government and that growing scientific and corporate establishment (concerned with) "syndromes" and "diseases" of nonconformity.

ìThere are hundreds of such "syndromes" and almost every week others are "discovered.î Few, if any, have any validation in science or medicine; most simply reflect behavior that some adult doesn't like, but they are nonetheless discussed and atributed to individual children as if they were medically demonstrable organic ailments. As a consequence, millions of children are no longer regarded as part of the ordinary spectrum of human personality and intelligence children who are quieter or brighter than the average, children who are jumpy, children who are slow but as people who are qualitatively different from the "normal" population, individuals who, as a consequence of "minimal brain dysfunction,î "hyperactivity,î or "functional behavior disorders" constitute a distinct and separate group. There is no way to estimate how many children now carry such lables, or have been assigned to special classes, or have been taught that they are somehow different, but their number clearly runs into the millions and is growing every year. These are not sick children or people with obvious physical or psychological handicaps: they are healthy children poor, affluent, bright, slow, black, white who come from an ordinary spectrum of homes, live in ordinary towns and go to ordinary schools...

"We are, among other things, raising the first American generation whose records include not only the commonplace data of
education (grades, test scores and anecdotes about character) but also extensive psychological information, material on family
relationships, income, sexual habits and, among other things, conjectures by psychologists and social workers about the
psyches and personalities of millions of individuals...All are being taught that it is normal to be watched, tested and treated, that deviance is disease, and that punishment, which used to be direct and overt, is now meted out furtively in the guise of therapy...

"An entire generation is slowly being conditioned to distruct its own instincts, to regard its deviation from the narrowing
standards of approved norms as sickness and to rely on the institutions of the state and on technology to define and engineer its "health.î In enhancing the power of the state, and in destroying even  the ability to imagine the alternatives and understand the liberties, which might once have been exercised in defending them, the impact of that conditioning is almost incalcuable.î

"Are we putting the Dachau inside the pill and the pill inside the child? Charles Witter
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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ADHD Criteria
Stimulant Drugs
Water - Pollutants
Lawyers and Cities - protecting manufacturing - loving it to death, but not protecting it
Manufacturing chemicals
Pharmaceutical Chemicals
Antibiotics
Education
KeyWords
 

Saturday, 17 November, 2001, 11:35 GMT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1661000/1661438.stm
Move to block human cloning
UK law intended to ban cloning of human embryos The government is to appeal against a court ruling effectively allowing human cloning - and will introduce legislation on the matter next week.

There are three different types of human sperm - blockers, killers and go getters. There has been speculation that males sperm evolved this way because of multiple insemination competition. I speculate that since sperm have protein that fungal (or other types of infections) would make the killer sperm target the defective sperm before it had a chance to get to the egg.
-- This means that humans have several types of defenses to keep mutations from happening like fungus invading the developing locust or the sex cells of a grass, so that the grass can only replicate by cloning.
--Male seminal fluid is alkaline, the female vagina is acidic, the vagina has a flora of microorganisms that keep it healthy and should also help kill bad sperm.
--Cloning circumvents all these protective measures.
--the use of virus' to help with GM replication also seems to the potential of circumventing the plants protection.

a) amphetamine withdrawal pain
b) painkiller Methylphenidate
c) methlyphenidate withdrawal pain
d) methlyphenidate pain adhd
e) amphetamine withdrawal pain
f) alkaloid amphetamine pain cocaine adhd
g) A Hill and Tip Trip - 06/12/2000
h) White House confirence on mental health
i) Stem Cells
j) Technology - Genetics
k) Digital Angel

a) amphetamine withdrawal pain
Koch Crime Institute
http://www.kci.org/meth_info/sites/meth_psycho.htm
                Amphetamines produce an artificial feeling of pleasure. Most addictive drugs are able to produce pleasurable effects by chemically mimicking certain normal brain messenger chemicals which produce positive feelings in response to signals from the brain.
                An example of this is the narcotic drug which mimics endorphin (nature's natural pain reliever). This is like having counterfeit money which will fit into the slot machine. When the drug comes in, its stimulates the reward center. This short circuits the survival mechanism, because the reward center cell can't tell the difference between the drug and the natural chemical messenger.
                The result is a dependence on the immediate, fast, predictable drug which, at the same time, short circuits interests in and the motivation to make life's normal rewards work
Repetition Strengthens Memory
                The memory works like a cassette recorder and stores all that the body experiences. At some time later, when "signaled," physical experiences stored in the memory can be played back. Repetition strengthens memory. Through repetition, the pleasant effects of amphetamine and the relief of painful withdrawal, become  strongly programmed into the survival mechanism.

b) painkiller Methylphenidate
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/sec7/84.htm
Psychostimulants, such as methylphenidate, are generally reserved for depressed people who are withdrawn, slowed, and fatigued or who haven't improved after using all other classes of antidepressants. Their abuse potential is high. Because psychostimulants tend to work quickly
 (within a day) and facilitate ambulation, they are sometimes prescribed for elderly depressed people who are convalescing from surgery or a protracted illness.

c) methlyphenidate withdrawal pain
Learning Discoveries Psychological Services
http://home.iprimus.com.au/rboon/TalkingBacktoRitalin.htm
Ritalin is a central nervous stimulant. It is primarily being used for the treatment of minimal brain dysfunction or ADD in children.
Common signs of this disorder are short attention span, easy distractability, emotional instability, impulsiveness, and moderate
to severe hyperactivity. Many professionals feel that Methylphenidate offers only a temporary solution because it does not
permanently change behaviour patterns -- IT IS NOT A CURE.

d) methlyphenidate pain adhd
International Abstracts in Psychiatry - June 1996
http://www.parkpub.com/abstracts/abstracts-psychiatry-june96.html
            Psychostimulants have been available for decades and amphetamines was the first class of drug to be introduced that had mood elevating properties. Amphetamines did become drugs of abuse and overuse during the second world war and the post war era, and they were used extensively again in the military during the Korean war. Amphetamines known as speed, and Methylphenidate, the `R' in T & R's (Talwin
and Ritalin), continue to be drugs of abuse on the street.

e) amphetamine withdrawal pain
Pacific Sleep Medicine Services
http://www.sleepmedservices.com/101questions/chemicals.html
45.             What does amphetamine do your sleep?
                  A: Amphetamine and amphetamine-like drugs are also known as 'speed' or 'crank'. They are powerful stimulants that are not unlike cocaine in many respects. Amphetamines also potentiate brain chemicals involved in wakefulness and produce changes in brain wave patterns. Sleep changes include reduced stage 3 and stage 4 NREM sleep and reduced REM sleep as well as decreased tendency to fall asleep and stay asleep. When amphetamine is discontinued, the individual becomes very sleepy and may feel that more amphetamine is necessary just to function. Also, discontinuation of amphetamine leads to greatly increased REM sleep known as 'REM rebound' which may be accompanied by nightmares.  However, amphetamine and related drugs are medically useful in controlling the disabling sleepiness of sleep disorders such as narcolepsy.

f) alkaloid amphetamine pain cocaine adhd
Amphetamines and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
http://axon.bhs.mq.edu.au/PSY_804/Lecture_11/LEC11WWW.html
     Used since 1936 for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
     Treatment started historically with use of dextroamphetamine and has progressed over years to use of  methylphenidate (Ritalin), pemoline (Cylert), and, more recently, the antidepressant nortriptyline.
     Evolution of terminology for the disorder: from "minimal brain dysfunction" to "minimal brain disorder" to "hyperactivity syndrome" to "attention deficit disorder" (ADD) to the present ADHD.
     No definitive CNS pathology (because there is no animal model of ADHD), however a dopamine hypothesis of ADHD, has evolved invoking a disorder of polysynaptic dopaminergic circuits, between prefrontal and striate centers.
     ADHD, which affects up to 6% of school-age children, characterized by: inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity that are persistent and sufficiently severe to cause functional impairment at school, home, and with peers....evidence that disorder may be inherited.
     Symptoms may persist into adulthood in a significant percentage of persons with ADHD.
     Effective intervention early in childhood may alter course of ADHD, decreasing likelihood of developing conduct disorder as an adolescent and antisocial personality with its various complications (e.g., alcohol and drug abuse, criminality) as an adult.
     Pharmacological treatment of ADHD usually discontinued when a child reaches puberty, because adolescents presumably are more prone to abuse amphetamine-like drugs.
     Also, possible growth-reducing effects may blunt usual adolescent growth spurt (even with a "summer holiday" from drug).
     Drugs improve behavior and learning ability in 50-75% of ADHD children
Amphetamines and Obesity
     Impediments include: side effects, dependency, addiction, and rapid tolerance.
     Small amounts of weight loss (<1 pnd/wk) accompany use of amphetamine and other
     dopamine-potentiating agents; effect lost after few weeks of therapy
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The Ride of their Lives
http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/publications/newsletter/Fall00/fall00/inside/ride.feat.htm
            Their story begins with a major scientific discovery eight years ago. It had long been thought that there were no stem cells (the basic, primitive cells from which all other cells evolve) in the brains of mammals. That’s why brain injury and disease was so serious—there was no hope for growing new cells. In 1992, however, Sam Weiss and his colleague, Brent Reynolds, stunned the scientific community by finding stem cells in the adult mouse brain. When stimulated by growth chemicals, the stem cells produced new neurons, the nerve cells that wire the brain. The two scientists founded NeuroSpheres Ltd. to commercialize this work.
            In 1995 the company was sold to Ciba Geigy (now Novartis) and in 1998, its Calgary research operations were closed.

brain    weiss      reynolds     calgary
Research on brain cells sees new hope
http://www.dhh-ev.de/alt/ts0302e.html
[transcribed from  the Toronto Star ,  Feb 3/97 p. A11]
                It had long been thought that there were no stem cells -- cells that grow new brain cells -- in adult mammals. That's why brain injury or disease causes permanent impairment -- new cells aren't regenerated. But in March, 1992, Weiss and Reynolds stunned the world scientific community by finding a stem cell in the adult mouse brain. When stimulated by growth chemicals, the so-called stem cell produced new neurons, the nerve cells that "wire" the brain.
                    ...Since that discovery, NeruoSpheres has isolated human stem cells, grown millions of brain cells in the laboratory, and transplanted cells into several hundred test animals, Reynolds says.
                    NeuroSpheres is collaborating with clinical transplant groups in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. The company has 25 employees and ongoing funding from Novartus, a giant pharmaceutical corporation.

http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/symp-weiss.html
In 1992, Dr. Weiss discovered neural stem cells in the brains of adult mammals. This research has lead to new approaches for brain cell replacement and repair. Plasticity
                  Reynolds, B.A. & Weiss, S. (1992). Generation of neurons and astrocytes from isolated
                  cells of the adult mammalian central nervous system. Science, 255, 1707-1710.

                  Weiss, S., Reynolds, B. A., Vescovi, A., Morshead, C., Craig, C.G., & van der Kooy, D.
                  (1996). Is there a stem cell in the mammalian forebrain? Trends in Neurosciences, 19,
                  387-93.

                  van der Kooy, D. & Weiss, S. (2000). Why stem cells? Science, 287, 1439 - 1441.

brain    weiss      reynolds     calgary
Alberta Heritage Foundation For Medical Research
 Discovering Connections -- 1999 AHFMR Triennial Report
http://www.ahfmr.ab.ca/publications/reports/Tri99/weiss.shtml
            Dr. Weiss became a Heritage Postdoctoral Fellow in France and there, in 1985, made his  first major discovery: a new receptor for glutamate, an important signalling molecule in the  brain. The metabotropic glutamate receptor is one of the hottest areas of drug-discovery  focus in the pharmaceutical industry today. "It led me to develop new ways of treating  neurodegenerative diseases because glutamate, in excess, is thought to kill brain cells. We  experimented with growth factors in the pursuit of new ways of protecting brain cells from  glutamate, and one of the growth factors turned out to be the one that makes stem cells divide."
            Dr. Weiss' lab currently embarks on two main research directions. One area investigates  how a specific "family" of genes, known as transcription factors, regulate stem cells enabling  them to develop into mature nerve cells. He collaborates with Dr. Michael Rosenfeld at the  Howard Hughes Institute in San Diego who is a world leader in transcription factors. With his  help, Dr. Weiss has identified a transcription factor that could be critical in pushing an  immature nerve cell towards maturity and a permanent stable state.
            Other research focuses on finding the master genes for the production of dopamine cells --  the principal cells lost in Parkinson's disease -- from stem cells.

 brain        frank              sharp                  md
http://www.strokeassociation.org/Media/02-05-991006.html
FOR RELEASE: 3:00 p.m. CT, Friday, February 5, 1999
           Abstract 95
           NR 99-1006 (Stroke/Sharp)
           Life among dead brain cells: Discovery could help improve memory capacity of stroke victims

goodell         baylor          college       medicine          blood
1998
Blood cells made from muscle cells
http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/pa/cellduplication.htm

Reprinted from ScienceDaily Magazine ...
Source:             Baylor College Of Medicine
Date Posted:    Friday, June 01, 2001
Web Address:   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010601082914.htm
Stem Cells Help Regenerate Tissue Damaged From Heart Attack
HOUSTON--(May 29, 2001) -- Stem cells from bone marrow might one day mend damaged hearts, according to research
conducted at Baylor College of Medicine.

Many Say Adult Stem Cell Reports  Overplayed
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v286n3/ffull/jmn0718-2.html
Brian Vastag      Vol. 286 No. 3,         July 18, 2001

2001
http://www.msnbc.com/news/594355.asp
Celluar Divide
This article is about the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research in America

2000 - this is about the European debate
Stem cell research and therapeutic cloning
Document 12/00                 November 2000
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/policy/stem_cell_research1.htm
Parliament will be asked shortly to vote on a proposal to allow research on stem cells derived from human embryos to investigate the possibility of new treatments for damage caused by burns, injuries and degenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, hepatitis and osteoporosis. This briefing note provides up-to-date scientific information about the significance of the proposed legislation.

The Science of Diversity
Race Belongs in the Stem Cell Debate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A60970-2001Sep8
• Gene Therapy and Research
By Jon Entine and Sally Satel
Sunday, September 9, 2001; Page B01
        Science and politics do not mix very well, particularly when it comes to such hot-button issues as diversity. That's certainly the case with the stem cell debate. Although this effect is surely unintended, if federally funded research is limited to the 64 stem cell lines approved by the Bush administration, potential cures could end upbeing most useful toa narrow sliver of the world's population: whites of mostly European ancestry and some Asians. Much of the rest of the world will find that some promising therapies developed from these lines do not work very well.
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j) Technology - Genetics
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
U.S. slips behind in genetics race
By Bonnie Erbe
        Then there are the more mundane and practical questions about America maintaining its scientific prominence. We lead the world in technology development. Yet the research community fears a massive brain drain of top biologists, with the best and brightest leaving the United States and moving to the U.K. to work on cloning research projects there. There’s already talk of the European Community replacing the United States as the world’s economic engine.
        Britain’s move could leave us trailing badly in one significant scientific arena as well.
[i.e.. Shipton's note - from the links above it appears that the US is still in the game.  This article compares the fact that the UK is doing embryonic research for stem cells and the US has alternative laws.  No UK embryos will be allowed to come to term.]
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k) Digital Angel
October 16, 2001
Innovator of the Year  --  Digital Angel watches over new product launch
http://www.libn.com/innovator_3.cfm
        The Hauppauge-based Digital Angel Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., is on the verge of launching a series of new products that monitor location, biological functions and other sensory data through wireless telecommunications linked to Global Positioning Systems.

Digital Angel set to fly tomorrow, WorldNetDaily, June 19, 2001.
     http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23232

More on Digital Angel, chip implants, and human tracking,
Declan McCullagh¹s Politechbot.com, June 19, 2001.
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02154.html

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Metabolic Changes in Off-Feed (Fasting) Cows
http://nvdls.unl.edu/feb97txt.htm
            Among the difficulties in dealing with downer cattle is trying to decide why the cow went down in the first place and what problems have developed as a result of her being down and off-feed. Serum biochemistry may provide some insights (or even outright answers?). When you interpret these results, you must consider that just being off-feed (fasting) can cause some biochemical changes. It is difficult to determine if abnormal biochemistry results were present before the cow went off-feed and might imply a cause, or if they developed as a result of fasting.
           In lactating dairy cows, fasting induces a fall in blood glucose and a rise in blood ketones and non-estrified fatty acids (HEFA's). Periparturient cows that can't or won't eat are at risk of developing fatty liver as a result of their negative energy balance. Liver enzymes such as GLDH, AST and GGT may increase. If the cow is dehydrated, she may have an increased total protein, PCV, urea and creatinine. Muscle damage will cause increased in CK and AST.
           Fasting often lead to a fall in serum magnesium and calcium. Once the cow starts to eat again, serum magnesium is much slower to return to normal than calcium. Low magnesium levels may persist for several days. It is difficult to predict the effect that being off-feed will have on serum phosphorus. In some cases, phosphorus rises, in others, it falls. Changes in blood phosphorus appear to depend on several factors including diet before the problem began and the animal's general condition, for example, hydration and calcium status.
           Dairy cows that are off-feed often have metabolic alkalosis, hypochloremia and hypokalemia. They may also have hyponatremia. Metabolic alkalosis and prolonged fasting can lead to depletion of intracellular as well as cellular potassium so plasma K does not accurately measure the true potassium status of the animal. Because intracellular potassium has a large influence on muscle strength, severe hypokalemia may actually contribute to an animal staying down. Hypokalemic cows are often depressed as well. Maintaining hydration and providing electrolytes is important for support of downer cows.
           It can be worthwhile to investigate serum biochemistry in downer cows. It may alert you to secondary complications or a need
to add supportive treatments that may not have been considered necessary before.
--Dr. Rob Tremblay in CEPTOR, May, 96; Herd Health Memo, 1996-97, No. 3.

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