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Tacitus' Realm / Rush-Limbaugh-Clear-Channel-Bain-Capital
« on: March 03, 2012, 01:27:24 PM »
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/0 ... in-Capital

Daily KOS
Fri Mar 02, 2012 at 06:01 PM PST
Rush Limbaugh/Clear Channel/Bain Capital

WOW!  No one has posted this as yet so I will.  Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, et al, the cavalcade of conservative heavy hitters air on Clear Channel.  And guess who owns much of Clear Channel?  Bain Capital!!!!

Pressure put on advertisers to pull out of Rush Limbaugh is excellent.  Maybe better than that is to put pressure on Bain Capital to sell immediately as a sign of support of women in the United States.

What say ye, Mitt Romney?

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Feed Your Head / Ann Romney Says She’ll Work With Troubled Teens
« on: January 12, 2012, 09:22:37 PM »
Ann Romney Says She’ll Work With Troubled Teens as First Lady
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/20 ... st-lady-3/
By Russell Goldman
Oct 5, 2011 6:33pm
 
At a campaign stop in Iowa, Ann Romney, wife of GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, said working with “at risk” kids would be the cause she devotes herself to if she becomes first lady.

“At risk youth has been a concern of mine and love of mine for a lot of years,” she said.

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, hinted that his wife would choose to work with troubled young people if he were elected president as he campaigned in Florida earlier this week.
 

User Comments here:


a little early to be picking out the drapes

Posted by: huge
| October 5, 2011, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm


I’d like to know why her husband’s company, Bain Capital, owns the Aspen Schools with have lots of allegations for abuse.

Would you also ask her about her husbands connections with Robert Litchfield, the owner of the WWASP programs which were closed due to abuse and Mel Sembler, the founder of Straight Inc which has over 40 suicides directly linked to it and thousands of brainwashed kids walking around today as adults?

And how her husband has Mel Sembler as his finance campaign manager and had to ask Robert Litchfield to step down last election due to the law suits he was facing?

She has no idea what’s in store for her….thousands of abused kids will start speaking out. I am one of those that was abused by Mel Sembler as a child.

Posted by: Thomas Moore
| October 6, 2011, 10:46 am 10:46 am


I would also like her to answer for her husbands connections to Robert Litchfield, founder of the worlwide association of specialty programs whom had had more than half of their “schools” shut down by FOREIGN governments due to allegations of child abuse (trust me these allegations are credible, I was in one of these places myself).

If Romney becomes President he is going to be held accountable for the choices that he has made. If that’s the result, then he got what he intended to use their words against them.

Posted by: Drew Ramsauer | October 6, 2011, 11:02 am 11:02 am


As someone who attended an overseas WWASP schools, one of the programs that provided a great deal of funding to Romney’s campaign, I find it outrageous that he would allow for any further ties to be made between him and this abusive industry. Even the smallest amount of research on the programs that have supported him (which his wife would likely pay back through her involvement) will reveal cases of death, neglect, abuse, and deceptive marketing. This is an outrage and I know that I personally will be speaking out about this issue. I hope that ABC News will present the stories of teens who suffered through this industry an outlet as well, in the effort to be balanced. “Help” should never come at the cost of abuse.

Posted by: Chelsea
| October 6, 2011, 11:08 am 11:08 am


The sheer irony and horror to see such a lady associated with so many monsters claim to even want to help the children who suffered do to the company her and her husband choose to keep. Her campaign (the campaign of her husband) is funded from the abuse, manipulation, and death of troubled youth. The suffering of youth was and is mere road bumps ignored and cast aside in the power and political growth of the Romney Empire. If they choose not to protect or help our youth, the future of our country, then how can we hope to even trust them with our nation? If she is serious about what she claims then I would like to see her push for The Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens ACT of 2011 to show she is willing to go against the abusers she has associated herself with and begin to reform the troubled teen industry. If not then it is more mere political promises that were never meant to be kept.

Posted by: James | October 6, 2011, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm


Ann Romney will work with troubled teens if Mitt’s elected? Why wait? Do some good now, Ann;
if your heart is truly in it, you should act now. Judging from what I’ve read on these posts, you
have a lot of work to do to fix some broken kids with connections to the schools. I wouldn’t vote for
Mitt is he is nominated anyway, and I admit to be quite uninformed about the schools because I
avoid reading Republican’s bios, but I will make it a point to read up on this one. Then, when I
ask others to not vote Republican, I’ll have a bit more substance to back it up with.

Posted by: carci | October 6, 2011, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm


Carci, I reccommend you research WWASP, Straight Inc., and Robert Lichfield himself. Those are the kinds of people this woman plans on working with.

Posted by: Whitney
| October 7, 2011, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm


joy behar clones. I live about 3 streets from Bob Litchfields wife in LaVerkin Ut, and have known the family for 30+ years. They are divorced. They have met Mitt Romney once, Patti said, and it was a “hi and a handshake.” Mitt wouldn’t know the litchfields from adam. It amazes me how one women gets on here and conjures up some imagined connection, and the witches w/ a “b” jump in and start snarling for blood. This women has suffered so much, and yet has been a wonderful wife, mother, and grandmother. In today’s Lady Gaga society, that’s just discusting isn’t ladies. Wait, never mind the ladies.

Posted by: Bj Jones | October 9, 2011, 4:26 am 4:26 am


Mitt Romneys relationship with Mel Sembler and his followers like Robert Litchfield are just the tip of the iceberg of well documented cases of torture and abuse. I am certain that torture and child abuse are not Mormon core values…

But wait…it gets better…Mitts primary money man Mel Sembler founded operation Straignt Inc. which was shut down for client abuse. Sembler while Ambassador to Italy also facilited kidnapping and enhanced interrogation of terrorist suspects.

Most troubling is Semblers involvement in the lead-up to the Iraq war. Sembler facilitated the creators of the original false WMD Intell used to start the Iraq war.

Google “Sembler” and “phase2b.pdf”, Open the Senate Intelligence Report and drill down to page 17 to read about Semblers involvement.

We should expect similiar activties by Sembler if Mitt Romney is elected.
Bomb Bomb Bomb….Bomb Bomb Iran….will become Romneys campaign theme song…

Posted by: OperationTailGunner
| October 21, 2011, 2:55 pm 2:55 pm


Whitney: Chatting with Bob’s Ex does not an informed mind make. I am no Joy Bear clone. I have never voted for a democrat in a national election in my life. I am fairly conservative in my views with a bend towards Libertarianism. I am also very familiar with Mr. Romney’s associations. I know who Mel Sembler is. I know even better who Robert Litchfield is. I know both men work/worked closely with Romney and his campaigns. This is unforgivable. If Romney is nominated I will not be voting for the Republican candidate in this election. No way at all I could bring myself to do that. But hey – if you know Bob’s ex maybe you can help us get in touch with Narvin’s ex – there are those who would like to have a friendly chat with her.

Posted by: Karen
| November 7, 2011, 9:46 am 9:46 am


Editing – I mistook who posted what. My comment to Whitney should have gone to *BJ Jones*.
Also, I kept getting an err message so will try again –

BJ Jones:

“Chatting with Bob’s Ex does not an informed mind make. I am no Joy Bear clone. I have never voted for a democrat in a national election in my life. I am fairly conservative in my views with a bend towards Libertarianism. I am also very familiar with Mr. Romney’s associations. I know who Mel Sembler is. I know even better who Robert Litchfield is. I know both men work/worked closely with Romney and his campaigns. This is unforgivable. If Romney is nominated I will not be voting for the Republican candidate in this election. No way at all I could bring myself to do that. But hey – if you know Bob’s ex maybe you can help us get in touch with Narvin’s ex, [Flora] there are those who would like to have a friendly chat with her. “

Posted by: Karen
| November 7, 2011, 9:51 am 9:51 am

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Feed Your Head / Boy, 12, Tells Congress of Years on ‘Stupid’ Meds
« on: December 04, 2011, 08:07:35 PM »
Via Facebook-
Nice to see this young boy made it out alive or without irreparable mental damage (or so it seems).

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2 ... upid-meds/
Boy, 12, Tells Congress of Years on ‘Stupid’ Meds

ABC News

A 12-year-old boy told Congress today that he was medicated into a near-stupor with mind-altering drugs during the four years he bounced among foster care homes.

“I think putting me on all these stupid meds was the stupidest thing I’ve ever experienced in foster care and was the worst thing anyone could do to foster kids,”  the boy, identified only as Ke’onte, told the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.

The seventh-grader, who was adopted by a Texas family in 2009 and who ABC News has been following for a year, said he had tantrums as a foster child and was inaccurately diagnosed as bipolar and having ADHD.

“I’ve been in the mental hospital three times during foster care, and every time I had to get on more meds or new meds to add to the ones I was already taking,” he said. Ke’onte said his meds made him feel irritable, gave him stomachaches and affected his appetite.

“I remember having a bowl of spaghetti and had three bites and then I was done,” he said.

He said he would get so tired “it felt like I would collapse wherever I was in the house.”

Ke’onte’s testimony came as a Government Accountability Office report was released that found that the federal government had not done enough to oversee the treatment of foster children with powerful drugs.

The report, whose contents were revealed by ABC News on Wednesday, coincided with a nationwide ABC investigation on the overuse of the most potent mind-altering drugs on many of the country’s nearly 425,000 foster children.

Ke’onte, who was on up to four medications at a time during his years in six foster homes, said that therapy has helped him in a way that meds never did.  “In therapy, you talk about the deepest thing and it hurts, but you can deal with it better the next time,” he said.

Now, he said, he is first chair in clarinet in his school band, participates in cross-country and has three small roles in the school play.

“I’m not only more focused in school… I’m not going to the office anymore for bad behavior and I’m happy.”

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Tacitus' Realm / The Immortal Life of "Henrietta Lacks"
« on: December 04, 2011, 02:01:12 PM »
I found this story very interesting for the scientific importance of immortal cells and the legal ramifications of discarded cells ("This issue and Mrs. Lacks' situation was brought up in the Supreme Court of California case of Moore v. Regents of the University of California. The court ruled that a person's discarded tissue and cells are not their property and can be commercialized.")
My problem is with when and if Mrs Lacks knew they were taking her cells. I say taking because it appears in this particular story that the doctors and researchers were asking Mrs Lacks to come in for future follow up appointments with the hidden additional purpose of extracting more cancerous cells for research. They were not communicating with her.
It is unethical to not explain to the patient that their cells that would normally be discarded and never used for any purpose are valuable for future tests and monetarily could have immense value.


http://www.theopennotebook.com/2011/11/ ... tta-lacks/
How Rebecca Skloot built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks


About The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
http://rebeccaskloot.com/the-immortal-life/

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains virtually unknown, and her family can’t afford health insurance.
Soon to be made into an HBO movie by Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball, this New York Times bestseller takes readers on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers filled with HeLa cells, from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia, to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells a riveting story of the collision between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a daughter consumed with questions about the mother she never knew. It’s a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we’re made of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

In scientific research
 The cells from Henrietta's tumor were given to researcher George Gey, who "discovered that [Henrietta's] cells did something they'd never seen before: They could be kept alive and grow."[13] Before Henrietta, the cells would only survive for a few days. Scientists spent more time trying to keep the cells alive than performing actual research on the cells. Some cells in Lacks's tissue sample behaved differently than others. George Gey was able to isolate one specific cell, multiply it, and start a cell line. Gey named the sample "HeLa", after the initial letters of Henrietta Lacks' name, to protect her identity. As the first human cells grown in a lab that were "immortal" (did not die after a few cell divisions), they could then be used for conducting many experiments. This represented an enormous boon to medical and biological research.[1]

As reporter Michael Rogers stated, the growth of HeLa by a researcher at the hospital helped answer the demands of the 10,000 who marched for a cure to polio just shortly before Lacks' death. By 1954, HeLa was being used by Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine for polio.[1][11] To test Salk's new vaccine, the cells were quickly put into mass production in the first-ever cell production factory.[14]

Demand for the HeLa cells quickly grew. Since they were put into mass production, Henrietta's cells have been mailed to scientists around the globe for "research into cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping, and countless other scientific pursuits".[11] HeLa cells have been used to test human sensitivity to tape, glue, cosmetics, and many other products.[1] Scientists have grown some 20 tons of her cells.[1][15]

Doctors still have not discovered the reason for HeLa cells' unique vigor, but suspect that it is due to altered telomerase function. There are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.[1]

In the early 1970s, the family started getting calls from researchers who wanted blood samples from them to learn the family's genetics (eye colours, hair colours, and genetic connections). The family wondered why and this is when they learned about the removal of Henrietta's cells. No one else in the family had the traits that made her cells unique.[1]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

HeLa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Hela (disambiguation).
Dividing HeLa cells as seen by scanning electron microscopy

A HeLa cell (also Hela or hela cell) is a cell type in an immortal cell line used in scientific research. It is the oldest and most commonly used human cell line.[1] The line was derived from cervical cancer cells taken on February 8, 1951[2] from Henrietta Lacks, a patient who eventually died of her cancer on October 4, 1951. The cell line was found to be remarkably durable and prolific as illustrated by its contamination of many other cell lines used in research.[3][4]

George Otto Gey and Henrietta Lacks
HeLa cells stained with Hoechst 33258

The cells were propagated by George Otto Gey shortly before Lacks died in 1951. This was the first human cell line to prove successful in vitro, which was a scientific achievement with profound future benefit to medical research. Gey freely donated both the cells and the tools and processes his lab developed to any scientist requesting them, simply for the benefit of science. Neither Lacks nor her family gave Gey permission to harvest the cells, but, at that time, permission was neither required nor customarily sought.[5] The cells were later commercialized, although never patented in their original form. Then, as now, there was no requirement to inform a patient, or their relatives, about such matters because discarded material, or material obtained during surgery, diagnosis, or therapy, was the property of the physician and/or medical institution. This issue and Mrs. Lacks' situation was brought up in the Supreme Court of California case of Moore v. Regents of the University of California. The court ruled that a person's discarded tissue and cells are not their property and can be commercialized.[6]

At first, the cell line was said to be named after a "Helen Lane" or "Helen Larson", in order to preserve Lacks' anonymity. Despite this attempt, her real name was used by the press within a few years of her death. These cells are treated as cancer cells, as they are descended from a biopsy taken from a visible lesion on the cervix as part of Mrs. Lacks' diagnosis of cancer. A debate still continues on the classification of the cells.[citation needed]

HeLa cells are termed "immortal" in that they can divide an unlimited number of times in a laboratory cell culture plate as long as fundamental cell survival conditions are met (i.e. being maintained and sustained in a suitable environment). There are many strains of HeLa cells as they continue to evolve by being grown in cell cultures, but all HeLa cells are descended from the same tumor cells removed from Mrs. Lacks. It has been estimated that the total number of HeLa cells that have been propagated in cell culture far exceeds the total number of cells that were in Henrietta Lacks' body.[7]

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Tacitus' Realm / The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah!
« on: December 03, 2011, 04:26:49 PM »
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2 ... halleluja/

Here is the bomb in a nutshell..

(excerpt from article)
"That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care."

Yep, they (Health Ins. Providers) would actually have to help, especially when you really need it. What a fucking concept..getting what you pay for.

(another excerpt from article)
"If you believe that the end of private, for-profit health insurance is some type of nefarious step towards a socialist society, then you might want to attend church this Sunday to mourn the loss of health insurers being able to worm out of covering the bills of a cancer patient because she forgot to write down on her application that she had skin acne for three months when she was a teenager."



(Article in full)

I have long argued that the impact of the Affordable Care Act is not nearly as big of a deal as opponents would have you believe. At the end of the day, the law is – in the main – little more than a successful effort to put an end to some of the more egregious health insurer abuses while creating an environment that should bring more Americans into programs that will give them at least some of the health care coverage they need.

There is, however, one notable exception – and it’s one that should have a long lasting and powerful impact on the future of health care in our country.
 
That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumers’ premium dollars they collect—85% for large group insurers—on actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care.

This is the true ‘bomb’ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything we’ve seen in quite some time.  Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true ‘death panel’ found in Obamacare—but not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry.

Why? Because there is absolutely no way for-profit health insurers are going to be able to learn how to get by and still make a profit while being forced to spend at least 80 percent of their receipts providing their customers with the coverage for which they paid. If they could, we likely would never have seen the extraordinary efforts made by these companies to avoid paying benefits to their customers at the very moment they need it the most.

Today, that bomb goes off.


Today, the Department of Health & Human Services issues the rules of what insurer expenditures will—and will not—qualify as a medical expense for purposes of meeting the requirement.

As it turns out, HHS isn’t screwing around. They actually mean to see to it that the insurance companies spend what they should taking care of their customers.

Here’s an example: For months, health insurance brokers and salespeople have been lobbying to have the commissions they earn for selling an insurer’s program to consumers be included as a ‘medical expense’ for purposes of the rules. HHS has, today, given them the official thumbs down, as well they should have. Selling me a health insurance policy is simply not the same as providing me with the medical care I am entitled to under the policy. Sales is clearly an overhead cost in any business and had HHS included this as a medical cost, it would have signaled that they are not at all serious about enforcing the concept of the medical loss ratio.

So, can private health insurance companies manage to make a profit when they actually have to spend premium receipts taking care of their customers’ health needs as promised?

Not a chance-and they know it. Indeed, we are already seeing the parent companies who own these insurance operations fleeing into other types of investments. They know what we should all know – we are now on an inescapable path to a single-payer system for most Americans and thank goodness for it.

Whether you are a believer in the benefits of single-payer health coverage or an opponent, mark this day down on your calendar because this is the day seismic shifts in our health care system finally get under way.

If you thought that the Obama Administration chickened out on pushing the nation in the direction of universal health care for everyone, today is the day you begin to understand that the reality is quite the contrary.

How Much Do We Spend On Health Care?  
 
If you believe that the end of private, for-profit health insurance is some type of nefarious step towards a socialist society, then you might want to attend church this Sunday to mourn the loss of health insurers being able to worm out of covering the bills of a cancer patient because she forgot to write down on her application that she had skin acne for three months when she was a teenager.

Of course, those of you who fear the inevitable arrival of universal health care really shouldn’t be too fretful. There will always be a for-profit health insurance industry for those who want to pay for it. The only difference will be that those who cannot afford private coverage will also have an opportunity to get their families the medical care that they need

Everyone wins-except the for-profit health insurers.

I can live with that.

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Feed Your Head / CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
« on: October 30, 2011, 05:47:39 PM »
Does anybody know anything about this organization. Also where are they on TTI abuses. I didn't read anything that involved investigation into programs. I heard about this organization the other day.


http://www.cchr.org/

CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS:
 The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) is a nonprofit mental health watchdog, responsible for helping to enact more than 150 laws protecting individuals from abusive or coercive practices. CCHR has long fought to restore basic inalienable human rights to the field of mental health, including, but not limited to, full informed consent regarding the medical legitimacy of psychiatric diagnosis, the risks of psychiatric treatments, the right to all available medical alternatives, and the right to refuse any treatment considered harmful.

http://www.cchr.org/about-us/cchr-accomplishments.html

Accomplishments of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Bringing Psychiatry to Justice for More than Four Decades

The Citizens Commision Commission on Human Rights has been on the front lines of mental health reform since 1969. Acknowledged by the Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Commission as responsible for “many great reforms” that protect people from psychiatric abuse, CCHR has documented thousands of individual cases that demonstrate psychiatric drugs and often-brutal psychiatric practices create insanity and cause violence.

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Feed Your Head / Alice Miller, Authr, "For Your Own Good".
« on: October 04, 2011, 06:33:22 PM »
"The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, our perceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday the body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth." - Alice Miller, Author, "For Your Own Good."

http://www.nospank.net/fyog.htm
"As Dr. Miller has written this book for the lay reader, it is straightforward and free of jargon. She has included plentiful detail . . . her analysis is incisive and compassionate, and . . . relevant across national boundaries . . . The problem of children's rights is pressing, as is the problem of violence in American society. And as the two problems are linked, Dr. Miller's book could not be more timely." -- Kathleen McCaffrey, The Baltimore Sun

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This is about as disgusting a act as I have read in sometime.
http://www.newschief.com/article/201105 ... ornography.

Polk detention deputy charged with child abuse, pornography

By JEREMY MAREADY
NYT Regional Media Group


Published: Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 7:16 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 7:16 a.m.
( page 1 of 2 )

BARTOW -- A 45-year-old Polk County sheriff's detention deputy has been arrested and accused of beating two nude children with a leather sex paddle, videotaping the acts and sending the videos to her online boyfriend, sheriff's officials said Thursday.

Pagoria Robin Leigh Pagoria was charged with three counts each of aggravated child abuse, production of child pornography, promotion of child pornography and possession of child pornography, reports said.

Pagoria was hired in June 2005 and paid $40,916 a year. She resigned Thursday from her detention deputy job at the Central County Jail.

Detectives said Pagoria severely paddled two girls, between 10 and 17 years old, filmed the beatings and gave the video to a person who lives outside of Florida.

"We employ 1,900 people," Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said. "You don't expect anyone to commit felonious conduct. But to create child pornography and to beat children, it's inexcusable. There are not words to express how incensed, outraged and angry I am."

The paddling incidents involving the children began three to five months ago and occurred most recently May 20, the Sheriff's Office said.

Pagoria told detectives she paddled the two girls with a tawse, a leather sex paddle, to humiliate and discipline them. Pagoria had fashioned a wooden desk and cut off two of the legs so the desk would slope, reports said.

Pagoria would make the children undress, lay on the desk, and tie their feet and handcuff their wrists to the desk so they couldn't move during the beatings, detectives said in an arrest affidavit.

The girls would be spanked between 50 and 60 times, reports said. Pagoria's online boyfriend, who she met though spankfinders.com, would determine the severity of the punishment.


Click to enlarge Pagoria
Robin Leigh Pagoria was charged with three counts each of aggravated child abuse, production of child pornography, promotion of child pornography and possession of child pornography, reports said.

Pagoria was hired in June 2005 and paid $40,916 a year. She resigned Thursday from her detention deputy job at the Central County Jail.

Detectives said Pagoria severely paddled two girls, between 10 and 17 years old, filmed the beatings and gave the video to a person who lives outside of Florida.

"We employ 1,900 people," Polk Sheriff Grady Judd said. "You don't expect anyone to commit felonious conduct. But to create child pornography and to beat children, it's inexcusable. There are not words to express how incensed, outraged and angry I am."

The paddling incidents involving the children began three to five months ago and occurred most recently May 20, the Sheriff's Office said.

Pagoria told detectives she paddled the two girls with a tawse, a leather sex paddle, to humiliate and discipline them. Pagoria had fashioned a wooden desk and cut off two of the legs so the desk would slope, reports said.

Pagoria would make the children undress, lay on the desk, and tie their feet and handcuff their wrists to the desk so they couldn't move during the beatings, detectives said in an arrest affidavit.

The girls would be spanked between 50 and 60 times, reports said. Pagoria's online boyfriend, who she met though spankfinders.com, would determine the severity of the punishment.

Pagoria told investigators she has never met the man, who was not named in reports, but would send him video recordings of the spanking sessions.

In interviews with detectives and caseworkers from the Department of Children and Families on Wednesday, the children described the sessions, which caused hemorrhaging and lacerations.

Pagoria told detectives that she had a fetish for spanking and would make videos of her spanking herself and masturbating and upload them to an online website for her boyfriend to watch, reports said.

Judd said after a review of Pagoria's personnel file, there were no indications in her psychological profile or polygraph tests that would indicate that she as interested in such acts.

Judd said detectives are early into the investigation of Pagoria's boyfriend and would be pursuing additional charges in the case.

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Feed Your Head / Book: From Death Do I Part
« on: April 30, 2011, 04:55:28 PM »
http://fromdeathdoipart.com/
http://amyleecoy.com/blog/
From Death Do I Part; How I freed myself from addiction/AA.

I found this book to be awesome, especially for anybody who has had difficulty moving through their experiences of family, rehab and AA/NA. The stigmas we place on ourselves ect...
It is just a great read. Amy bio is something all of us can relate to.
Just wanted to share.

Her and her husband are accomplished singer/songwriters also. Their blog will explain more.
—————
*WHERE DO YOU GO

And where do you go
When you melt into your mind
And how does it feel
Are you free or are you blind
And what do you do
When every way looks hollow
Well cry for yourself
And then possess your fear of sorrow

Cause’ I don’t think that they can take everything
So keep your hopes your dreams
Keep anything
And can you listen to your own
Take your freedom and bring it home
Bring it home
Bring it home
Bring it home

And once in a while
I can see behind your style
You’re quite mighty brave
For yourself you have enslaved
So dream as you will
For there your power will be saved

Do you know you’re okay
Somehow you worked it out that way
Still I have a dream
That you would come to me and say

I don’t think that they can take everything
I kept my hopes my dreams
I kept everything
And I listened to my own
I took my freedom and brought it home
Brought it home
Brought it home

Do you know you’re okay
Somehow we worked it out that way

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My family has been dealing with a autistic child for sometime now. I noticed members had posted comments in the past. I have personally followed this case (I like PBS news and NPR radio). Thought it would be good reading. There are 5 more reports do out.
I also noticed the amount of High Functioning cases being placed with children with different mental and emotional disabilities in Treatment Centers. This I believe is just wrong.



REPORT    AIR DATE: April 18, 2011
Autism Now: Robert MacNeil Shares Grandson Nick's Story
SUMMARY
In the first of six reports in his Autism Now series, former NewsHour anchor Robert MacNeil takes viewers on a visit with his 6-year-old grandson, Nick, to see how autism affects the whole family. Nick experiences autism not just as a brain-development disorder, but also as physical ailments affecting his whole body.

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ROBERT MACNEIL: In recent years, the diagnosis of autism has shown startling growth, now affecting one in 110 American children. For over two decades, parents desperate for answers and feeling slighted by the medical community have helped force to create services for their children, raise money for research and campaign for wider awareness of autism and for support from the government.

Today the picture is changing. Researchers now believe there is no simple genetic cause, that autism may involve multiple genetic pathways, and toxic materials in the environment may trigger the symptoms of autism. Autism once was considered only a brain disorder. Now, more doctors say it often involves serious physical illness.
 
And that's our first story tonight. Frankly, I have a personal motive in telling it, because it's about my grandson Nick, who is 6 and lives in Cambridge, Mass.

It's not easy connecting with Nick. We live in different cities. All my grandchildren are a little shy when we first meet again. But Nick's shyness is different.

One of the marks of autism is difficulty making eye contact and communicating, even with family members.

I've been a reporter on and off for 50 years, but I've never brought my family into a story, until Nick, because he moves me deeply. Also because I think his story can help people understand his form of autism and help me understand it better.

This was Nick when he was 9 months old, a healthy, alert and engaged baby with no apparent medical problems. Now at 6, my grandson seems like a different child, showing the classic symptoms of autism, a disorder in development, his difficulty connecting. Nick struggles with language, the rigidity and resistance to change Nick shares with other children with autism.
"I think pain in a child with autism is a very difficult thing to assess because a child with autism can't vocalize that. He will very often not come to you and say, 'I've got a bellyache.' He can't use those words."
- Dr. Timothy Buie, Massachusetts General Hospital

NICK: Now go home.

ROBERT MACNEIL: A tendency to suddenly appear absent, to withdraw into an emotionally detached inner world of his own.

Those symptoms are characteristic of the autism spectrum -- severe to mild -- in Nick's case, relatively mild. But beyond such mental difficulties, Nick has serious physical illness: in his digestive system, his mitochondria, the energy needed by his cells for normal activity, plus frequent small brain seizures, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. How Nick was transformed from that healthy boy to Nick today is still devastating to his mother, my daughter Alison.

ALISON MACNEIL: When Nick was diagnosed, I actually hired a babysitter so that I could go sit in my car in a parking lot and cry because I couldn't do it here with the kids.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Alison was trained as a psychiatric social worker, but like many parents, has made virtually a new career of caring for her son with autism.

ALISON MACNEIL: I remember one day I was sitting at the computer, and he was about 16 months old. And I caught out of the corner of my eye that he was spinning one of Neely's doll's plates. And I'd never seen a child play that way before -- ever.

And I went in to interrupt him, and he wouldn't stop. And there was an intensity about it. And I had this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, because I knew something was wrong.

ROBERT MACNEIL: That worry sent Alison to a developmental pediatrician who confirmed their fears: Nick had autism.

ALISON MACNEIL: Nick was irritable, crying, inconsolable and now is not on track developmentally at all. He's gone backward.

So we went from a 15-month appointment where this child was A-OK, supposedly, and given the MMR, the DTaP and the Hib vaccines.

People say to me, Alison, it's a coincidence. Alison, how do you know this happened? Well, it's impossible for me to know. But what I will say is this: It was not a coincidence that my child was diagnosed with autism at the same time that his whole system shut down. Something happened to my child.

ROBERT MACNEIL: I understand Alison's suspicion, but public health authorities say there is no scientifically valid evidence that vaccines cause autism. And Alison found little support from the developmental pediatrician.

ALISON MACNEIL: When I said to her this child has not had a formed bowel movement since the 15-month shots, she said children with autism have diarrhea.

When I said that he was crying inconsolably, she said this is part of autism. They can't regulate their emotions. So it was all lumped under, "yes, we always see that with autism. It's just autism."

ROBERT MACNEIL: Nick's complex problems demanded a broader view of autism. Some call it a new paradigm, or a systemic illness, or a whole-body experience. One of the leaders of that new thinking is Dr. Timothy Buie, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital.

DR. TIMOTHY BUIE, Massachusetts General Hospital: Six months ago, he was so lethargic and so out of it that he came into the office and literally laid on the chair for a 30- or 40-minute visit. He never moved.

He wouldn't interact. He wouldn't give you any eye contact whatsoever. And at the end of the appointment, Mom picked him up and took him out and went home.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Dr. Buie found changes in the lower GI tract he called lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia -- inflammation and damage in his small intestine.

How does that affect the life of a child like Nick? For instance, does it give him pain?

DR. TIMOTHY BUIE: I think it can give pain. And I think pain in a child with autism is a very difficult thing to assess because a child with autism can't vocalize that. He will very often not come to you and say, "I've got a bellyache." He can't use those words. So he may exhibit that as a child who doesn't sleep well. He may exhibit that as a child who has a lot of increased agitation or hyperstimulatory-type behaviors.

And part of the problem with that is that we've accepted that those are behaviors that we often see in children with autism, and we've written it off to their autism. So it's very difficult to think through whether that's a marker for pain in some of those kids if we're unwilling to look for other reasons.

(Nick laughs)

ALISON MACNEIL: You're not leaving yet, come on. You're going to come here. No.

DR. TIMOTHY BUIE: He's looking remarkably better. He's active. He's happy. He's playful. He's turning off the lights, which some people would find to be a negative challenge. I don't think so. I think that's a child who's testing. And I think it's really interesting to see. And he walked right over happily, smiling, sat down -- a much different child.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Do you think the medical community and your contact with it understands this wider definition of autism?

ALISON MACNEIL: Emphatically no. They can't just refer these kids to early intervention and consider this a psychiatric or neuropsychiatric situation. They've got to stay involved and help the family get referrals for gastroenterology, to neurologists to look at whether or not there's seizure activity.

ROBERT MACNEIL: From its lowest ebb two years ago, Nick's condition has greatly improved as Alison found different doctors to diagnose and treat his other problems. But achieving even that level of progress, Nick's autism is having a profound effect on the family. All of their lives ultimately revolve around his needs. Certainly, that's how his 10-year-old sister, my granddaughter Neely, sees it. She's in a different kind of pain.

NEELY: I just don't like how autism affects the family. It just - it seems like it takes up too much time, and you usually get really bored of autism, because it's in your life all the time.

ROBERT MACNEIL: What things would you do if you didn't have a brother with autism?

NEELY: It just seems that a lot of money is spent on Nick's vitamins and Nick's doctors' appointments and Nick's everything, and it would change if we didn't have to get all that stuff.

ROBERT MACNEIL: I see. Are you worried about Nick?

NEELY: Yes.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Tell me what you're worried about, about him.

NEELY: Well, if he's going to stay autistic for the rest of his life.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Yes. And what would that mean, if he were?

NEELY: I don't know. It would get harder when he gets older, and there wouldn't be as much services to help him. Sometimes I worry that he might get lost because he doesn't really know what to do.

ROBERT MACNEIL: When you think about the future with Nick, what do you feel about that?

NEELY: Well, I hope that I -- I hope that he doesn't have to stay with me, kind of, and that I hope that he gets healed soon. Sometimes when other people, they -- their lives seem perfect, and when yours -- when yours -- you have to do something that you don't like, you don't usually want to do it, and though your autistic sibling does, and it seems unfair. And it seems like they get what they want and you don't.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Well, one of the things about life is that we all learn we have to do things we don't want to do, whether there's autism around or not.

NEELY: Yes, but it seems like it happens too much. I mean, there's going to be a few times when that happens, but it seems with an autistic brother or sister, it always happens.

ALISON MACNEIL: I don't know. I can't take the autism out of her life. You know? We try to make things -- you know, we try to do the best we can with it. But she's right, you know. In some ways, this is really unfair.

I would have to say that every family living with an autistic child makes massive sacrifices in every way. It takes a phenomenal amount of teamwork. And I think Dave and I have been pleasantly surprised to find that it has brought out probably the best in us. It doesn't leave a lot of energy left over.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Like the energy Nick's father, Dave, expends every evening.

DAVE: Hey Nick. What do you want to do do?

NICK: Go on buses.

DAVE: In a little bit, sure. Can I get a high five?

NICK: We have to go on the 72.

DAVE: OK.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Nick loves to ride on buses.

NICK: We have to go on the bus.

DAVE: Yes, we might do that. We might go some other places, too.

NICK: After the 72 bus.

ROBERT MACNEIL: So every day after work as a senior account executive at a public-relations agency, Dave devotes 90 minutes to a bus outing that Nick yearns for all day.

NICK: 72 to Belmont.

DAVE: Yes, we can go on the Belmont if you want.

ROBERT MACNEIL: On our day there, we change Nick's schedule so we can all go to the park before dark.

NICK: No. Go to Harvard Station.

ALISON MACNEIL: Yes, and you're going to go to Harvard Station later with Dad.

NICK: After?

ALISON MACNEIL: After we're done at the playground.

NICK: A bus ride?

ALISON MACNEIL: Yes, you're going to have one with Dad.

NICK: Sad.

ALISON MACNEIL: I know you're sad, sweat pea.

ROBERT MACNEIL: For exercise, they walk from their apartment the half mile to Harvard Square to wait, but not just for any bus.

NICK: We're going to go on the 72 bus.

ROBERT MACNEIL: The 72 takes them on a 20-minute loop through Cambridge and back to Harvard Square for the walk home. But tonight the 72 doesn't come and doesn't come.

NICK: That's the 71.

DAVE: Nope, that's the 73.

ROBERT MACNEIL: The eager little boy scans each arriving bus as though it carries all his happiness. And still it doesn't come.

DAVE: Want to go on the 73?

NICK: No.

ROBERT MACNEIL: After nearly an hour of waiting, looking sadder and sadder.

Nick, if the 72 doesn't come, should we take another bus?

NICK: Another bus.

ROBERT MACNEIL: He's persuaded with no tantrum to take another bus home.

Part of his improved physical condition has brought more patience, more tolerance for change.

DAVE: Alright, Nick. High five, bud.

ROBERT MACNEIL: We made a promised trip to the toy store.

So which one is Thomas?

Here you can see the disconnect between us.

Nick, which one is Thomas?

For me, the father of four children with four other grandchildren, seeking connection with Nick is a very poignant experience. To have a grandson who can tune me out or simply ignore me like this, make no eye contact for long stretches of time, gives me a strange and painful feeling.

ALISON MACNEIL: Say thank you to Grandpa.

NICK: Thank you to Grandpa.

ALISON MACNEIL: OK, there we go.

ROBERT MACNEIL: Thank you.

It warms my heart that Nick's physical problems are improving, and I'm lost in admiration for the patience and courage Alison and Dave bring to his constant care. I see my daughter, like many autism mothers, not only perplexed but sometimes amused and always intrigued by what may be going on in her son's mind.

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A friend of mine sent this to me. I thought I'd share it here. Found it a tad off-color so to speak.



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/busin ... &src=busln


A New Site Intended to Serve People in Recovery
By JEREMY W. PETERS
Published: March 27, 2011

     
Addiction is a big business — and not just for the treatment centers that rake in billions of dollars every year. It’s also a huge media business that has spawned popular shows like A&E’s “Intervention” and VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab,” and best-selling memoirs by Mary Karr, Augusten Burroughs and a seemingly inexhaustible list of other recovering writers.
Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
 
Now, Maer Roshan, the founder of Radar magazine, is betting that addiction is also a good and potentially profitable proposition for the Web.

TheFix.com, a Web site that combines feature writing, news, video and Zagat-like reviews of rehab facilities, will go live on Monday. It is the latest endeavor for Mr. Roshan, who became a fixture in New York media as an editor for Talk and New York Magazine, but then fell out of the public eye after Radar folded as a magazine for the third time.

By his own account, it was a rough exit from public life. Radar’s Web site was sold to American Media Inc., leaving Mr. Roshan with no role. He moved to Los Angeles and spent some time in recovery for alcohol abuse, where he came to realize that the vast community of people trying to overcome their addictions had no media outlet that spoke directly to them.

“These are people who are united by their values, united by their mission; there’s a common lingo, common literature,” Mr. Roshan said in a recent interview at a cafe down the block from the sober living facility in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn called The Core Company where TheFix.com has its offices for the moment. “There’s an actual community here.”

By the estimation of Mr. Roshan and his business partners, it is a community that advertisers will discover is large and eager to spend: “The demographics are really good,” he said. Back-of-the-envelope math suggests that a Web site catering to people in recovery could be a huge business. Various surveys put the number of people who enter treatment each year from two million to four million. At costs that easily run tens of thousands of dollars a month, often paid out of pocket, the money spent getting sober is staggering.

Allison Floam, a co-founder of TheFix.com, said, “This is the largest market you’ve never heard of.”

As a niche publishing enterprise, TheFix.com (tagline: “Addiction and recovery, straight up”) is not unlike any media that play to a specific demographic with hopes of drawing in the kind of specific, highly engaged audience that advertisers desire. The Fix sees tremendous potential in the buying power of people in recovery.

“They’re people who have lots of new disposable income because they’re not spending it on crack or Absolut,” Mr. Roshan said. “They are people who are newly invested in their health and well-being. They are people who have a lot of time on their hands that they didn’t have before.”

The Fix plans to reach out to health clubs like Equinox and Crunch; beverage sellers like Poland Spring and Vitaminwater. Coffee makers like Starbucks are on their list too because recovering addicts often develop a taste for coffee. The site’s founders are also eager to attract travel advertising.

There is little doubt that recovering addicts are a large audience. But whether advertisers have any desire to cater to them as a distinct group is uncertain.

“That’s the question: Is putting your brand in the environment of that condition and mind-set going to create an association that you want, and one that’s scalable enough that there’s a business reason to do it?” said Andy Chapman, director of digital trading for Mindshare, a media-buying agency. “Because you can reach them in other places. And that may be good enough.”

The creators of The Fix are trying to soothe advertisers in part by not presenting addiction as an exploitative spectacle. But The Fix does not intend to ignore stories of Hollywood celebrities who have often explosive spirals into substance abuse. Nor does it intend to treat addiction as purely serious fare. In fact, one of its first features is a gallery of what its editors have deemed history’s messiest celebrity breakdowns.

“We’re certainly not looking for any kind of Victorian freak show element,” said Joe Schrank, a co-founder of TheFix.com who worked with Mr. Roshan to develop the idea for the site, and founder of The Core Company. “However, I think you have to have a sense of humor about it. It’s a very delicate line.”

The Fix will publish serious essays by big names like Susan Cheever. There is an article questioning the effectiveness of a new vaccine that purports to curb cocaine cravings. Experts have recorded videos that offer advice on managing addictions.

“My hope for The Fix is that it’s giving much more texture to the comprehensive life — not just the crisis that thrusts people into treatment,” Mr. Schrank said. “The story arc in the media is always the same. It’s Charlie Sheen freak show, or a guy went to rehab, redeemed himself and became a rehab counselor. When the truth is it’s as individual as a human thumbprint.”

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Was poking around an found this site where it seems some children from HLA and RCS posted comments/experiences they had. I found them to be very interesting. It is a forum which also caters trolls. The comments I am referring to are the first 4-5 threads. Check this out if you haven't already.

Open Discussion On:
http://amazingforums.com/forum/BS4/forum.html

I am wondering if the comments on this site should be moved over here, this site appears to be dormant.

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Feed Your Head / Madoff to NY magazine
« on: February 28, 2011, 12:23:44 PM »
" YA THINK "

Madoff to NY magazine: Government a Ponzi scheme


– Sun Feb 27, 11:49 pm ET

NEW YORK – Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff said in a magazine interview published Sunday that new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crisis is laughable and that the federal government is a Ponzi scheme.

"The whole new regulatory reform is a joke," Madoff said during a telephone interview with New York magazine in which he discussed his disdain for the financial industry and for its regulators.

The interview was published on the magazine's website Sunday night.

Madoff did an earlier New York Times interview in which he accused banks and hedge funds of being "complicit" in his Ponzi scheme to fleece people out of billions of dollars. He said they failed to scrutinize the discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information.

He said in the New York magazine interview the Securities and Exchange Commission "looks terrible in this thing," and he said the "whole government is a Ponzi scheme."

A Ponzi, or pyramid, scheme is a scam in which people are persuaded to invest through promises of unusually high returns, with early investors paid their returns out of money put in by later investors.

A court-appointed trustee seeking to recover money on behalf of the victims of Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme has filed a lawsuit against his primary banker, JPMorgan Chase, alleging the bank had suspected something wrong in his operation for years. The bank has denied any wrongdoing.

Madoff is serving a 150-year prison sentence in Butner, N.C., after pleading guilty in 2009 to fraud charges.

In the New York magazine interview, Madoff, 72, also said he was devastated by his son Mark Madoff's death and laments the pain he wrought on his family, especially his wife.

"She's angry at me," Madoff said. "I mean, you know, I destroyed our family."

Mark Madoff, 46, hanged himself with a dog leash in his Manhattan apartment on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. He left behind a wife and four children, ages 2 to 18.

At the time of his suicide, federal investigators had been trying to determine if he, his brother and an uncle participated in or knew about the fraud. The relatives, who held management positions at the family investment firm, denied any wrongdoing.

Bernard Madoff has maintained that his family didn't know about his Ponzi scheme.

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Interesting article I ran across over on the FaceBook Site for HLA/RCS. This article was written in 2005. http://www.nospank.net is the website that carried the article. Great child advocacy resource.

http://www.nospank.net/pinto.htm

EXPLOITATION IN THE NAME OF "SPECIALTY SCHOOLING"
What Counts as Sufficient Data? What are Psychologists to Do?
By Allison Pinto, Ph.D., Robert M. Friedman, Ph.D. and Monica Epstein, Ph.D.
Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 2005

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to:

    Allison Pinto
    Department of Child and Family Studies
    Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, MHC 2222
    University of South Florida
    13301 N. Bruce B. Downs Boulevard
    Tampa, Florida 33612

or

    http://observer.guardian.co.uk
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Feed Your Head / Movie "Over the GW"
« on: February 21, 2011, 04:14:07 PM »
What program is this movie/documentary based on. This has got to be some of the sickest shit I have ever seen. I could not even watch it all at one time, I had to break at down in three viewing, not planned.
This is a documentary Molly should see, I am just not sure if Hyde is like this.

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