The Obama administration is telling federal agencies to take tough new steps to prevent more WikiLeaks embarrassments, including instituting "insider threat" programs to search out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents.
As part of these programs, agency officials are being asked to determine ways to "detect behavioral changes" among employees who might have access to classified material.
A very detailed 11-page memo drafted by U.S. intelligence officials and distributed by Jacob J. Lew, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, suggests that agencies use psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.
The memo was sent this week to senior officials at all agencies that use classified material. Also be on the lookout for employees who are Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey. And tall, pale, white women with black hair who like apples.
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What the h311 do federal tit suckers have to be unhappy about????? They have garaunteed jobs at obsessive pay and perks.
I think that this is a warmup for this clique's desire to force this sort of "screening" on all citizens. If he had the time and the troops I'm sure that the Obamanation would quickly cotton on to the whole gulag paradigm.
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Keep only the gruntled employees on staff, fire the rest.
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suggests that agencies use Kapos psychiatrists and sociologists to measure the "relative happiness" of workers or their "despondence and grumpiness" as a way to assess their trustworthiness.
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called."
I don't know where Orwell is buried, but wherever it is, if they could just hook a dynamo to his spinning corpse, they could provide limitless power to everyone in a 100-mile radius.
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Forget the social workers. Bring in the commissars.
[Straits Times] USING plastic bags instead of condoms during sex would put teenagers at risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and severe vaginal lacerations, the Public Health Ministry warned on Tuesday. On the other hand, you can't carry a three pound rump roast home from the grocery store in a rubber...
A study has shown that some students in the north-east had used plastic bags to prevent pregnancies and STDs.
Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said on Tuesday that the Disease Control Department's Aids, Tuberculosis and Sexual Transmitted Disease Bureau had informed him that the use of plastic bags was unusual among teenagers who want to experience sex.
But this unsafe behaviour could lead to injuries and infections of the sexual organs.
The ministry has been distributing more than 20 million condoms a year to the public.
People can get free condoms in their villages from primary-care units and health volunteers.
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and attach it with a twist tie
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Wasn't this the reason the San Francisco Board of Supervisors wanted to ban plastic grocery bags?
An attorney for the owners of the "bomb house" property near Escondido has demanded at least $500,000 for his clients' loss and distress, according to a claim filed with San Diego County.
If the gentleman in question also is an orphan because he murdered his parents, then he's a shoo-in.
"We do not believe an emergency existed within the meaning of those cases which allow a taking without compensation," McKinley said in a Dec. 15 e-mail to Thomas Bunton, a senior deputy county counsel.
"I think the key is, it's a difficult situation," Bunton said. "Sometimes individuals have to suffer to protect the greater good. And that may be the case here."
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actually, the bomb-maker was a renter. The owner had no part in the fool's toys and is out a fairly nice house. I'm sympathetic
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This does bring to mind the legal issues involving "destroy in place", if that destruction results in extensive collateral damage.
As a ridiculous hypothetical, say that in a garage attached to your house, you regularly store a 5 gallon container of gasoline, paints including paint thinner, some compressed gas to do a little light welding, electronics repair parts, and a locked gun cabinet with guns and ammo in it, because you have small children.
A guy who sold you a gun is busted by the ATF for selling illegally modified guns, so the police search your garage to see if you bought an illegal gun.
They decide that you could build a bomb, and that your garage is dangerous, so that they need to blow it up.
The resulting fire burns down your house.
The police can indeed bring out experts who will testify that you had "bomb making materials" in your garage, and that they were stored in an unsafe manner, solely by their proximity to each other, so had to be "destroyed in place".
Yes, thank you, Frank. My orphan comment is kind of pointless with that information.
I can't imagine that his landlord insurance covers this cause of damage to the property, since it suggests he doesn't screen his tenants well enough -- thinking further, his insurance will probably go up on his remaining rental properties based on the same supposition. His claim with the county makes sense, under the circumstances... especially since, if the county agrees to the liability, they're likely to pay out only the least of the cost to rebuild the thing, the value he'd had it ensured at, or the amount at which it could have been sold minus land cost.
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Yes, I have quite a bit of sympathy for the home owner in this case as well, whose been stuck footing the bill for renting to a tenant gone berserk. This case seems to be similar to others in which the tenants used houses as meth labs, and in several such cases the home owners must foot the bill to repair and renovate the house themselves, as the insurance companies cite a particular pollution and contamination exception clause, which exempts the insurance company from paying.
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The owner's plight is troubling but far more troubling is the state's action in burning the house despite the defendant's petition to the court to preserve it based on his belief that it might well contain exculpatory evidence.
Hopefully the case against the defendant will be dismissed and the owner will be well compensated for the state's action. But I have a feeling it'll go precisely the other way.
A new piece of technology may soon be coming to South Florida, but is already raising concerns from residents.
The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a drone, which is an unmanned plane that is equipped with cameras. Drones have been used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan in the war against terror.
Many residents are concerned that the new technology will violate their privacy.
MDPD purchased a drone named T-hawk from defense firm Honeywell to assist with the department's Special Response Team's operations. The 20-pound drone can fly for 40 minutes, reach heights of 10,500 feet and cruise in the air at 46 miles an hour.
"It gives us a good opportunity to have an eye up there. Not a surveilling eye, not a spying eye.Let's make the distinction.A surveilling eye to help us to do the things we need to do, honestly to keep people safe," said Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus.
Terrorism Expert Douglas Haas, however, believes that the drones will help in many ways, including fighting crime. "This has unlimited capabilities," said Haas.
"Not only is it good tactically for a SWAT callout or any tactical situation, there's numerous search and rescue applications for it after a hurricane. They could send one of these up fast and assess damage." "It's also great to keep an eye on your ex-wife and her new boyfriend."
Sounds very French: Disaffected "youths" in sensitive areas doing Car-b-Queues
Riots erupted in Algeria over food prices, housing and lack of work, with youths in the capital stoning a police station, torching tyres and destroying cars, witnesses and media said Thursday.
Violence flared in Algiers late Wednesday after weeks of protests across the oil-rich country that come as similar unrest linked to unemployment and living costs has shaken neighbouring Tunisia since mid-December.
Clashes erupted after dark in the capital's Bab El Oued district when dozens of youths stoned a police station and torched a car dealership, destroying about a dozen vehicles, an AFP photographer said.
"They hurled stones at the anti-riot police in the area. A group of youths wrecked a bus shelter," a resident told AFP by telephone.
Protesters also barricaded a road with flaming tyres to prevent security forces from arriving, in a similar pattern to another demonstration in the western suburb of Cheraga.
Dozens of youths also set alight tyres, barricaded roads with tree trunks and hurled objects at drivers in a protest Wednesday in Oran, 430 kilometres (270 miles) west of the capital.
[Maghrebia] Mauritania's new press freedom bill, which includes partial privatisation of state-owned media, will soon be presented to legislators for debate, ANI quoted Communication Minister Hamdi Ould Mahjoub as saying on Monday (January 3rd). During a plenary session in Nouakchott on Monday, several senators spoke favourably about the proliferation of electronic media in the country. They also called for the state to provide more material and moral support to the press.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo will escape charges of any nature if he voluntarily hands over power to his rival Alassane Outtara, the joint mediation team from African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have guaranteed.
However, The infamous However... the delegation that is mediating a peaceful end to the crisis has not ruled out the use of force in case Mr Gbagbo declines to hand over power voluntarily, AU special envoy and Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga told the media in Nairobi on Wednesday.
He was speaking when he arrived home after three days in West Africa where he went to seek a peaceful end to the post-election crisis in Côte d'Ivoire.
Mr Odinga said the joint AU-Ecowas mission have called on Mr Gbagbo to step down and hand over power to Mr Outtara. In exchange, Mr Gbagbo has been promised amnesty.
"He will be free to operate as a politician if he remains in Côte d'Ivoire but if he decides to go on exile, he will be free to go about his business and not be dragged into the International Criminal Court," said Mr Odinga.
Both AU and Ecowas are giving peace a chance before taking any drastic action that may include forcible removal of Mr Gbagbo.
AU reiterates that Mr Outtara is the legitimate and internationally recognised president of Côte d'Ivoire following the November 28 run-off elections in which the country's electoral commission declared him the winner.
However, Yet another infamous However... the country's constitutional Council which is headed by a Gbagbo ally overturned the results in favour of the incumbent citing election irregularities in the North where Mr Outtara draws the biggest following.
"Gbagbo was defeated in the run-off election but maintains that the electoral commission was compromised by his rival," Mr Odinga said on Wednesday. "He also maintains that the results announced by the electoral commission were only provisional which had to be confirmed by the Constitutional Council. Therefore, there is a crisis that needs to be resolved."
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[Arab News] The Saudi banking system's loan-to-deposit ratio stood at its lowest level in 11 months in November as deposits grew but bank lending to the private sector made another languid performance, falling from the month earlier. Claims on the private sector declined 0.2 percent between October and November while the annual growth rate dropped from 4.1 percent to 3.7 percent due to lower outstanding short- and medium-term loans. While monetary conditions continue to lag, high oil prices have supported a rebound in net foreign assets to pre-2009 levels and offer a prime backdrop for a broader recovery this year.
The long-winded revival in bank lending has been a key hurdle before an economic turnaround in the Kingdom. Fiscally, the country is sound, with government estimates last month indicating a 2010 surplus of SR108.5 billion, linked to a good rebound in the global oil price last year to nearly $80 a barrel, on average. Domestically, however, private sector business caution continued to prevail throughout the year. While nonoil private sector GDP growth did rise to 3.7 percent in 2010 from 3.5 percent in 2009, growth came below our forecasts. The government sector, meanwhile, picked up the slack, its GDP growth jumping to a 13-year high of 5.9 percent.
Resistance both on the side of companies toward investing their capital into new projects and of banks toward lending has resulted in a fragile recovery in bank credit. Stripping out investments in private securities, bank credit growth to the private sector stood at just 2.6 percent in November, below expansion of 3 percent in October. Growth in loans to public sector enterprises also declined in November to an annual 8.9 percent from 12.6 percent in October and almost 18 percent in September.
A loan-to-deposit ratio of 80.27 percent in November represented the lowest since December 2009. Deposit growth has been slow over all for 2010, growing just 2.6 percent in the first 11 months. By comparison, deposit growth was 11.2 percent in 2009 and 17.9 percent in 2008. Still, deposits held in banks advanced 2.1 percent in November from the month earlier, resulting mainly from greater interest in demand deposits, which have been favored this year due to their accessibility and the low interest rates paid on time and savings deposits. While funds held in demand deposits climbed 24.2 percent in the year to November, the amount of savings deposits dropped 15.1 percent. Even time and savings deposits, however, rose 2.4 percent in November from October levels.
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And as Obamas restriction on drilling cost all of the US the ability to produce, find, and make new sources for the nations lifeblood - you just handed another of your enemies a check for all we cannot produce.
Now that we are vunerable and the EPA is the most powerful influence in the US, whats to stop the rest of the world in treating US like BITCHES? Huh, Obama?
The EPA will Not grant exploration rights, china moves in, the US pays gargantuan amounts for oil.
The Economy again dives- as was the initial reason for the downturn.
Drill now, drill hard, refine, or live in a prison with foreigners running the country.
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I would hate to think that the POTUS *wants* us humbled and broken. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine very many things he'd do differently if he did, assuming his goal was to do so incrementally so as not to provoke effective response.
Today's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Administration(sic) data center.
Officially named the Utah Data Center, the facility's role in aggregating and verifying dizzying volumes of data for the intelligence community has already earned it the nickname "Spy Center." Its really long moniker is the Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center the first in the nation's intelligence community.
A White House document identifies the Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative as addressing "one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government or as a country are not adequately prepared to counter."
The center is designed to be capable of generating all of its own power through backup electrical generators and will have both fuel and water storage. That's National Security Agency. In addition to gathering and collating data from different agencies, it has been suggested that this center will be in charge of Internet defense and warfare.
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Just googled Camp Williams, and the physical site isn't particularly impressive from an OPSEC perspective, not at all remote from a suburban environment. However, proximity to the best linguistic base with high confidence in U.S. allegience couldn't be better. All those Mormons and their worldwide missions give the NSA a perfect recruiting base of trustworthy linguists.
"Oh yeah, and Ellen Weiss, Senior Vice-President for News, has resigned. To spend more time with her familypartner co-habitant other. One has nothing to do with the other. Really."
Defund these smarmy bastards
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oh snap! She also didn't get a 2010 bonus. The humanity!
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heh heh - NB: I was wrong - the CEO, Vivian Schiller, that suggested Williams needed a psychiatrist is the one that lost her bonus
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Don't you love the fact that the same people who threw a hissy fit about Breitbart with the Shirley Sharrod video have no problem with the fact that Schiller and her merry band of censors took what Williams said completely out of context in order to smear him. The only difference between their behavior and that of the oh-so-notorious Hollywood blacklisters of the fifties is that the people being blacklisted by Hollywood were associated with an evil comparable to Nazism. What Williams was being (falsely) accused of is having a lousy attitude towards people who dress funny. So he should lose his job. Un-freaking-believable!
(Oh yeah, he made a snarky remark about the way St. Michelle dresses too. Oh, the horror!)
There are few small, symbolic victories that will make me feel as good as if when these smug, entitled parasites at NPR get their funding cut off for good.
LONDON The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.
The conclusions of the 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues was renounced by 10 of its 13 authors and later retracted by the medical journal Lancet, where it was published. Still, the suggestion the MMR shot was connected to autism spooked parents worldwide and immunization rates for measles, mumps and rubella have never fully recovered.
A new examination found, by comparing the reported diagnoses in the paper to hospital records, that Wakefield and colleagues altered facts about patients in their study.
The analysis, by British journalist Brian Deer, found that despite the claim in Wakefield's paper that the 12 children studied were normal until they had the MMR shot, five had previously documented developmental problems. Deer also found that all the cases were somehow misrepresented when he compared data from medical records and the children's parents.
Wakefield could not be reached for comment despite repeated calls and requests to the publisher of his recent book, which claims there is a connection between vaccines and autism that has been ignored by the medical establishment. Wakefield now lives in the U.S. where he enjoys a vocal following including celebrity supporters like Jenny McCarthy.
Wakefield needs to be thrown in prison for this. How many kids got sick and how many died from this outright lie?
I know, this entry is late for the day; but here's yet another review challenging this lie from hell. Wakefield is guilty of murder.
Yes, he is, mom. Which is why we're publishing this tomorrow.
AyPee summarized: Dr. Wakefield falsified information about pre-existing developmental disabilities of the children on which his original 1998 Lancet paper was based. This information was discovered by British journalist Brian Deer, whose investigation was sponsored by the Sunday Times of London and Britain's Channel 4 television network. It was published online Thursday in the medical journal, BMJ.
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He should be thrown in prison for a long time at least for the endangering of children. I had my child vaccinated while mentally flipping this guy the bird a few years ago.
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"Dr.s Jenny McCarthy and Deirdre Imus to the Crank Phone. Code Blue!"
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To start with, vaccination is essential because the diseases vaccinated against are terrible.
That being said, the human immune system is insanely complicated, both internally, and externally in its interactions with viruses, rickettsia, bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and many kinds of parasites. Humans swap out much of their intestinal flora several times in their life, which seriously alters immune function as well.
Science is maybe 1/10th of the way to understanding it.
Autism, on the other hand, seems to be mostly genetic, but is a spectrum condition with several different forms, and its severity may be to some extent determined by environment.
In the brain, autism is seen as having more than the typical amount of white matter, which interconnects the parts of the brain. So, much of problem seems to be from "information overload". When part of the brain is stimulated, it stimulates other parts in far more of a "brainstorm" than is needed.
This raises the question of whether autism is caused by excess white matter, or if autism causes excess white matter to develop. In either case, an environmental factor may contribute to the growth of this excess white matter, or determine how much overgrowth there is of it.
We have three kids on the Spectrum, plus my dad the genius with no sense of proportion, plus cousins on both sides of my family with some Spectrum symptoms.
There are a number of things that can cause Autistic symptoms. The people who swear by the "Autism Diet" probably have the kids whose genetics create a metabolic disorder that produces symptoms. For our family, it's the combination of genetic tendencies exacerbated by problems in pregnancy, labor and delivery.
Another manifestation of Autism Spectrum Disorders has to do with the vestibular system in the inner ear. This is the mechanism that processes tactile, balance, and auditory data. When this system is broken, people rock, sway, or in the case of our friend "Pete", run. This movement is an attempt to restore some order to the balance organs. "Pete" has a GPS bracelet so that the local cops can find him if he gets away from his family. The confusion in tactile data processing produces the sensory defensiveness, and the problems in the auditory processing channel create the dramatic overstimulation of that system. An autistic person does not know how to tune out extraneous noise; he hears it all at the same level.
The people who tried to claim that the vaccines caused the symptoms made that connection because there's an important set of changes in the brain that happen generally between ages 15 to 18 months, about the same time that kids are getting the MMR. In some autistic kids, the brain does not make that change and they lose a lot of skills suddenly. In our family's case, we didn't know what to expect with the eldest son and were surprised; but by the time the youngest daughter came along, we had enough experience to know that something was odd from Day 1.
SSI just cut our two neediest Asperger kids off, so I'm going to spend the morning dealing with bureaucrats. We are within about a year of getting one of the kids employed at a job that will lead to economic independence and becoming a taxpayer, (though still in need of support for taking care of himself) at age 28; and the youngest daughter will probably need about 5 years to get functional enough to be semi-independent.
The caprices of the government agencies involved in providing autism support do not inspire confidence in the govt's capacity to know a hawk from a handsaw where health is concerned. When we had to go before a judge to appeal a case for Katie Beckett funding for the youngest son, the judge didn't know that Wisconsin's cutoff for in-home therapy at age 7 was arbitrary; he thought that no autism therapy worked after age 7!
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It was always a fraud to keep governments from having to inoculate.
I doubt it. Indications are that the guy was the corrupt tool of lawyers who planned to sue big Pharma for millions of pounds sterling based on his 'research' results. He also had a whole line of 'products' he intended to launch to make money directly from scared parents.
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OK, know I'm swimming with my boots on - honest question:
There seems to be a general agreement autism is on the rise; is it: Better diagnosis? Broadening definition of autism? Increasing but still as percentage of population? Increasing as percentage of population? Become more aware and/or accepted by general population?
I ask, as an in-law is officially autistic (please do not ask me specifics but could find out if that would help answer above questions) but wonder if a cut-back in sugar intake and/or 60 years ago if anyone would notice other than the kid just being a bit different.
today, there is an autism complex with autism, Asperger and Pervasive disorder making up the complex.
although the vaccination hypothesis has been discredited, the heavy metal and pesticide exposure hypotheses are still 'in the game' as agents that facilitate the expression of the genetic problem
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And for the record, would like to knock the teeth out of this huckster for taking 2 hours out of my life calming the wife before each and every shot.
And you news programs who ran the story for a week, how about a follow up eh?
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I have been told that the number of cases of severe autism has been on the rise, but haven't looked around to see what the numbers are.
The number of severe autism cases is significant because it is universally recognized.
It may blend in with retardation at some point, and I don't know how that would unpack here.
People may have tended to have hidden severely handicapped kids away forty-so or more years back, but you'd think they would for the most part still be around today, and some clever statistician would have looked into that already to see if they could infer the number of cases from that time frame.
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One of my cousins has a Fragile X kid, but that would be from the kid's mom, right?
Not necessarily, mom. According to Wikipedia, if the subject is male, it came necessarily from the mother, but in the rarer case when the subject is female, it can have come from the father. The article notes the physical and behavioural markers, which can be considerably less noticeable in females with the problem.
swksvolFF, I imagine at least part of the increase in Asperger's Syndrome diagnoses has to do with increased sensitivity as well as increased mainstreaming instead of institutionalizing (Temple Grandin, multiple PhD, professor, and expert on animal behaviour, would have been institutionalized by age 5 years retarded, had her mother not stood firm). Another portion has to do with the internet and the computer industry, each of which provides an outlet for those with poor social skills to meet, fall in love, and marry. Silicon Valley diagnoses of Asperger's and autism are said to be significantly higher than elsewhere.
Trailing daughter #1 is a synesthete. For her numbers, letters and words have colors, textures, shapes. This has enabled her to both write and learn mathematics quickly and at a high level.
She sees/feels the correct answer to math problems, which makes every problem an open book one for her; her writing (prose, poetry, fiction, and fact) comes out as a woven whole, not piecemeal as we neurotypicals generally do it. The two composition scenes in the film Amadeus -- one with Salieri working out a piece phrase by phrase, the other Mozart dictating the entire Lachrymosa for the Requiem Mass as it must be -- show this kind of difference quite clearly, not that Mozart was necessarily or even probably an Aspie. My discussions with td #1 about alternative word or phrasing choices have been quite interesting because of the other senses she brings into how the words fit together. As has been the exercise of rewriting to differently address the concept or purpose of a piece after she mis-aimed on the first draft. On the other hand, there is music that she can't listen to because it triggers her synesthesia in unpleasant ways.
It seems to me mild-to-moderate synesthesia would be useful in a great many fields to short-cut the path to a solution. Not just perfumers, but advertising copy writers and forensic accountants, where the feel/taste/smell/texture of words and numbers would short-cut the search for rightness for the first, and wrongness for the second. So long as it isn't disabling, synesthesia seems to me to add a deep layer of richness to life.
Another in-law, this with ADHD tendancy, was with us for a few weeks. A change of diet and us learning to instruct with steps instead of goals, showed a remarkable change from the behavior which got him sent to us in the first place. When my wife and I were wondering how we could help or what could be done we had a similar thought: how many people in history who have contributed amazing thoughts would, today, have been suggested for medication. Not saying some do and some don't but in-law was suggested remedies with the paint brush when mechanical pencils were the better way. That is, it is very much case by case...which could lead me into a rant against beaurocratic medicine but the ol whistle is a blowin'.
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Iblis, if you have a child who is immunocompromised, that vaccine can be a lifesaver.
Yes, I know, we all had it and nobody died. But I'm betting that none of your little buddies were undergoing treatment for cancer, for example. In that case it can and does kill.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Straits Times] USING plastic bags instead of condoms during sex would put teenagers at risk of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and severe vaginal lacerations, the Public Health Ministry warned on Tuesday.
[Maghrebia] Mauritania's new press freedom bill, which includes partial privatisation of state-owned media, will soon be presented to legislators for debate, ANI quoted Communication Minister Hamdi Ould Mahjoub as saying on Monday (January 3rd). During a plenary session in Nouakchott on Monday, several senators spoke favourably about the proliferation of electronic media in the country. They also called for the state to provide more material and moral support to the press.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] Côte d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo will escape charges of any nature if he voluntarily hands over power to his rival Alassane Outtara, the joint mediation team from African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have guaranteed.
LONDON The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research.
