Saturday, 31 March 2007

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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:04:39 -0000
From: dennismk12002 <(Address removed)>
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To: (Address removed), (Address removed) Subject: [PhillyMetroAreaTransit] Fwd: House OKs money for transit security

--- In (Address removed), Stan Feldman <stans_railpix@...> wrote:

House OKs money for transit security
By: BRIAN SCHEID (Thu, Mar/29/2007)

The House approved a $7.3 billion bill aimed at preventing terrorist attacks on the nation's railways and buses � transit systems that the bill's proponents, including Bucks County Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-8, believe have been overlooked since Sept. 11, 2001.

The legislation, which faces a veto threat from President Bush, was approved Tuesday night by the House by a vote of 299–124 with all opposition coming from Republicans.

The funding is long overdue after terrorists have attacked railroads
and subways in Madrid, London and Mumbai in the past three years, according to Murphy, who called the incidents "a wake-up call for all
of us."

<snip>

The bill would dole out $7.3 billion over four years to boost
security on buses, trains and subways, train police and transit
workers, reroute hazardous materials around metropolitan areas and increase the number of federal rail security inspectors from 100 to
600 by 2010. The bill also gives $140 million to Amtrak to improve tunnels throughout the Northeast.

<snip>

"We've got enough to do basic security here, but if we're going to be required to do more security we're going to need more personnel," he said. "That's been the case since 9/11."

<snip>

Bush issued a veto threat due to a whistle-blower protection
provision in the bill that Bush administration officials contend
would permit employees with grievances to reveal security-sensitive information.

<http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111–03292007–1322040.html>

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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Date: 30 Mar 2007 22:55:14 -0700
From: (Address removed)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Experts: Education Technology Must Change Its Message�

Experts: Ed tech must change its message
Supporters of school technology must make a more
explicit connection between technology and teaching,
former CoSN board members say
By Dennis Pierce, Managing Editor, eSchool News
E-School News Online
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/
showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6961>

Experts: Education Technology Must Change Its Message

In a message dated 3/30/07 4:46:48 PM,

(Address removed) writes:

At the annual Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
conference in San Francisco March 28, past CoSN board
chairs participated in a roundtable discussion about
the need to advocate more forcefully for change in
higher education. Seven former chairs of CoSN's board
of directors, as well as many other industry leaders
gathered for an informal conversation centered on the
question: Given the needs of today's learners, as well
as the current context of technology in most school
districts, what are the most important ed-tech
leadership issues that are not receiving attention?

March 30, 2007�Supporters of educational technology need
to change their message when talking with stakeholders,
and they need to advocate more forcefully for change in
higher education: These were the key points made during
a special roundtable discussion featuring past board
chairs of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).

Aimed at celebrating CoSN's 15th anniversary, the event
took place during the nonprofit organization's annual
conference in San Francisco March 28.

Seven former chairs of the group's board of directors,
as well as many other industry leaders, gathered for an
informal conversation centered on the question: Given
the needs of today's learners, as well as the current
context of technology in most school districts, what are
the most important ed-tech leadership issues that are not
receiving attention?

In a spirited, hour-long discussion, participants touched
on a variety of issues--from the need for a formal
certification process for school district chief technology
officers, to the lack of federal leadership on educational
technology under the Bush administration.

But two themes stood out in particular: (1) the need to
shift the focus in the national dialogue about educational
technology from the technology itself to the changes it
enables in teaching and learning, and (2) the need to
overhaul teacher education in the United States to produce
a new generation of educators who are not only comfortable
with technology, but expect it to be used in schools.

'A new vocabulary'

Cheryl Williams, a former CoSN board chair who is now
vice president of marketing for the San Francisco-based
professional development firm Teachscape, said ed-tech
leaders need to "bridge the divide between technology and
teaching." She noted that many conversations about school
technology fail to make the vital connection between the
two--thereby empowering critics who argue that technology
isn't necessary in schools.

"We need a new vocabulary for discussing
[educational technology] with stakeholders," Williams
said.

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

Links:
Consortium for School Networking
http://www.cosn.org

(Editor's note: For more real-time coverage of
CoSN's 12th annual
conference in San Francisco, see the Conference
Information Center at eSN Online:
http://www.eschoolnews.com/cic

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Outreach GLEF.org
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My communities
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CyberEd Resources : ICT's and Education (owner)
Games and Education (owner)
Science without Frontiers STEM Initiatives K-12 (owner) http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey
Portal Work
http://edreform.net/
Technology Applications for learning in the portal applications.edreform.net
Technology Applications for Learning
The Technology Applications for
Learning Network is a catalog of technology
applications for learning.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:07:45 EDT
From: (Address removed)
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To: (Address removed)
Subject: [Net-Gold] "Excellence in the Classroom" Release

"Excellence in the Classroom" Release

In a message dated 3/28/07 4:24:01 PM,

(Address removed) writes:

The Future of Children

Excellence in the Classroom is the Focus of New
Issue of

Princeton/Brookings Future of Children Journal

The Future of Children has released its latest
publication,

Excellence in the Classroom (Vol. 17, No. 1).

The volume focuses on improving the quality of teachers
as a critical move towards closing the achievement gap.
Accompanying the journal is an Executive Summary and a
Policy Brief.

The volume concludes that good teachers make a difference.
According to the fifteen leading scholars who contributed
to the journal, the most promising way to improve teacher
quality is to broaden entry requirements, identify and
promote effective teachers, provide additional pay to
successful teachers who work in challenging schools, and
promote meaningful professional development.

Strengthening the teacher workforce is not a one-time
policy initiative. The editors argue that ongoing
flexibility will be needed for schools to implement these
reforms.

Education policy in individual districts, and in the nation
as a whole, would be well served if reform initiatives were
designed from the outset with credible evaluation elements.

The Future of Children is a co-production of the
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and the
Brookings Institution.

This mailing provides subscribers with periodic updates on
the journal's new releases and activities. We hope you find
this information useful in your work to improve the lives of
low-income children and families.

If your colleagues would also like to receive this e-mail,
please pass this along and ask them to subscribe to our
e-newsletter.

Please do not reply to this email, but instead forward any
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:17:30 -0500
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <(Address removed)>
Reply-To: (Address removed)
Subject: [Net-Gold] TX & SW Articles

TX & SW Articles

Local digest: Former nurse gets jail in drug thefts
News Journal, TX – Mar 21, 2007
She could have received up to 20 years in prison on a two-count indictment against her, which included charges of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud ...

http://tinyurl.com/2wn3hn

Nurse testifies Davis knew of plan
Bryan College Station Eagle, TX
So far, Chad Davis has been sentenced by a jury to life in
prison for his involvement in the incident and Trey Davis
is serving 40 years in combined

http://www.theeagle.com/stories/022807/local_20070228013.php

Teenager Casts Light on a Shadowy Game
By KIRK JOHNSON
A Texas boy has become a scared-straight spokesman against
a choking game after he nearly died playing it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28risk.html?th&emc=th

Two Judges in Anna Nicole Smith Case Get Reassigned
The two judges who oversaw the Anna Nicole Smith cases in
Florida's Broward Circuit Court are swapping jobs -- at
least temporarily. Chief Judge Dale Ross ordered the moves
Tuesday in the wake of complaints and a newspaper editorial
that Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda should be moved out of
family court until his misdemeanor drug charge is resolved.
Korda, who briefly oversaw the paternity dispute involving
Smith's baby daughter, was cited on March 18 for possession
of one marijuana cigarette weighing less than 0.1 gram.
Police said they caught him smoking pot in a Hollywood,
Fla., park. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin, who gained national
fame for his courtroom theatrics during the Anna Nicole Smith
body custody case, will move from the probate to the family
division to make way for Korda.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1174986235614&pos=ataglance

Reporter arrested while testing hospital newborn security
(3/29/07 – LUBBOCK, TX) – A television reporter trying to gauge security at two hospitals in Amarillo has been arrested on suspicion of attempted aggravated kidnapping, authorities said Wednesday.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=state&id=5162486

Waxahachie Nursing Home Office Manager Indicted in Medicaid
Fraud CaseJudy Putman of Navarro County charged with diverting patients' funds WAXAHACHIE An Ellis County grand jury indicted a Waxahachie nursing home office manager for stealing money
from more than 100 nursing home residents. Texas Attorney
General Greg Abbott's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which investigated the case, is jointly prosecuting with the Ellis County District Attorney's office.
The grand jury charged Judy C. Putman, 55, of Blooming Grove in Navarro County, with diverting money belonging to the residents.
Media links Judy Putman

<http://www.oag.state.tx.us/cj_fugitives/
cj_fugitive_detail_arrested.php?id=829>

"Texans will not tolerate criminals who exploit senior
citizens," said Attorney General Abbott. "Our Medicaid
Fraud Control Unit will continue cracking down on nursing
homes and their employees who take advantage of their
residents. The elderly must be treated with dignity and
protected from harm. Attorney General Abbott added,
"We are grateful to Ellis County District Attorney
Joe Grubbs for his tremendous assistance with the
prosecution of this case." The Attorney General's
investigation found that Putman, who worked at
Renfro Health Care Center in Waxahachie, diverted
funds belonging to 110 residents into a trust fund bank
account. She then forged 145 checks written on that
account for a total of $356,650, a first-degree felony.
Putman also controlled a single resident's personal
checkbook and wrote checks on that account totaling more
than $34,000, a second-degree felony.

Ellis County Assistant District Attorney Patrick Wilson
and Assistant Attorney General Rodney Boyles will prosecute
the case.In 2005 the Medicaid program in Texas cost more
than $17 billion. As the state's chief law enforcement
official, Attorney General Abbott has dramatically expanded
the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit to save more taxpayer
dollars and increase protection for Texas seniors. The unit,
which handles criminal cases of fraud and abuse, has
established field offices in Corpus Christi, Dallas,
El Paso, Houston, Lubbock, McAllen, San Antonio and Tyler.
It works with federal, state and local agencies across
the state to identify and prosecute those who defraud the
Medicaid program. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit was
honored in 2004 by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services with the Inspector General's State
Fraud Award for effectiveness and efficiency during federal
fiscal year 2003 in combating fraud, patient abuse and neglect
in the Medicaid program.

REEFER MADNESS: A MODEST PROPOSAL
by Jordan Smith
Houston Rep. Harold Dutton offers up Legislation for downgrading criminal penalties associated with possession of small amounts of pot

<http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/
Issue/column?oid=oid:460811>

San Antonio Express-News, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 7:48 PM PDT
S.A. doctor needs marrow donor

<http://www.mysanantonio.com/perl/common/rssredir.pl?page=http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/medical/stories/
MYSA032907.doctor.marrowtransplant.KENS.131e8ef4.html>

Dr. Kenneth Piest spent almost 20 years healing South
Texas patients. Now, he's asking South Texas to help
cure him.

Medical News Today, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 6:04 AM PDT
Actions Taken On Abortion, Teen Pregnancy-Related
Legislation In Arkansas, Idaho, North Dakota, Texas

<http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=66506&nfid=rssfeeds>

The following highlights recent news coverage of state
actions on abortion- and teen pregnancy-related legislation.

CBS News, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 7:30 AM PDT
Medicine: Seeing The Big Picture

<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/
grad_schools/main2625243.shtml>

"Hospitalists" who oversee treatment of "the whole patient"
are in demand. Research suggests that having them on staff
results in shorter patient stays and more efficient,
more cost-effective care for hospitalized patients.

AP via Yahoo! News, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 2:08 PM PDT
Analysis: Stent fallout after big study

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070329/ap_on_he_me/
stents_vs__drugs_analysis_2>

Heart patients around the country are calling their
doctors to question plans to treat clogged arteries with
stents. It is the early fallout from a big study that
showed drugs work just as well in non-emergency cases to
prevent heart attacks, deaths, and over the long run,
chest pain.

A WHACKED-OUT SYSTEM
by Jordan Smith
Inmate's lawsuit focuses on secret and unreasonable Texas paroles

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:460806

Bradenton Herald, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 3:27 AM PDT
Despite prevalence, HPV still a mystery to many

<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/bradenton/living/
health/16953462.htm?source=rss&channel=bradenton_health>
Nearly every working day, Dr. Elizabeth Poynor encounters anxious young women who come to her New York City office with an HPV diagnosis.

The San Francisco Examiner, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 2:22 PM PDT
Analysis: Stent Fallout After Big Study http://www.examiner.com/a-646291~Analysis__Stent_Fallout_After_Big_Study.html
NEW ORLEANS ( Map , News ) – Heart patients around the country are calling their doctors to question plans to treat clogged arteries with stents.

Hope Star, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:32 PM PDT
Controversial vaccine use weighed http://www.hopestar.com/articles/2007/03/30/news/news3.txt
A vaccine to prevent a type of cancer sounds like the answer the world has been waiting for, but with the vaccine being associated with a sexually transmitted disease the issues that surround it are more than controversial.

Focus on Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
University of Arkansas Daily Headlines – Fayetteville,AR,USA FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A nurse leader from Texas will speak about evidence-based practice at a nursing research conference Monday sponsored by the University ...
<http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/10467.htm>

Code alert: Gray steps into new Pinehurst position
Orange Leader – Orange,TX,USA
Gray feels like his former job as an emergency room nurse prepared him for the challenge ahead. ��I have learned to deal with the public in stressful...
<http://www.orangeleader.com/news/local_story_089150202.html?keyword=secondarystory>

Young Women Consider the HPV Vaccine
NPR – USA
Beth Huff, a nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt University says, it's a personal decision whether to tell your partner that you have HPV. ...

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9209535>

Ambulance company, owner guilty of health care fraud
North Texas e-News – TX,USA
Andradi faces up to ten years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250000 at sentencing. Doctor's Ambulance Service faces a sentence of up to five years ...

<http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_41567.shtml>

Texas House wrangles over budget, priorities
Houston Chronicle – Houston,TX,USA
... programs meant to divert offenders from prison, border security and some cost increases in the Medicaid health care program for the needy. ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4672935.html>

Accused Fake Doctor Charged with Sexual Assault
KRGV – Weslaco,TX,USA
NEWSCHANNEL 5 checked with the Texas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. They have no record of anyone by the name of Richter working in the Valley....

<http://www.newschannel5.tv/2007/3/29/965733/
Accused-Fake-Doctor-Charged-with-Sexual-Assault->

Witness says access to doctor was sold
Albany Times Union – Albany,NY,USA
Prosecutors have alleged health clinics in New York, Florida and Texas were prescription drug mills that paid doctors to write thousands of prescriptions ...

<http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=576244&category=REGION&newsdate=3/29/2007>

Houston doctor OK'd for top defense job (this is full text)
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Houston cardiologist S. Ward Casscells was confirmed by the U.S. Senate without opposition Thursday night as assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. Casscells, a vice president at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, is expected to begin work at the Pentagon in about three weeks.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4673776.html

Doctor charged amid drug allegations
KTEN – Denison,TX,USA
Prosecutors allege Fahey illegally distributed Lortab, Oxycontin, Xanax and Adderall out of his clinic, the Patrick -J- Fahey Clinic of Sports, ...

<http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6305482>

"Barbara Acello, RN"
<(Address removed)>

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:17:35 -0500
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <(Address removed)>
Reply-To: (Address removed)
Subject: [Net-Gold] Med-Legal-Pain-Prison Health Care Articles

Awareness of female offenders increasing
Charleston Post Courier (subscription), SC –
Mar 25, 2007

Another had sex with an inmate while working as a prison
nurse. A third performed oral sex on a child while her
boyfriend videotaped the incident.

<snip>

She knew it was wrong. But there Gail was, performing sex
with her boyfriend in front of a 13-year-old girl. The man,
who would later become Gail's husband, dabbled in the
black arts and fashioned himself a warlock. This depraved demonstration was designed to somehow enhance his dark powers. He had threatened to kill Gail and her family if
she didn't go along with his plan.

<snip>

"This kind of offender often thinks she is in love with
the children," said Hollida Wakefield, a Minnesota-based
psychologist who has studied women molesters. "To them,
it doesn't seem like offending. It's more of a romantic relationship." Researchers and therapists, however, have come to see the damage these skewed relationships can
inflict upon the boys involved. The victims often have
difficulty forming stable relationships, develop sexual
issues of their own and fall victim to drug and alcohol
abuse, said William Burke, a licensed professional
counselor from Summerville who assesses and treats sex
offenders.

<http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/
departmental/news/Stories.aspx?section=
localnews&tableId=136091&
pubDate=3/25/2007>

<http://tinyurl.com/2nnjlc>

(No connection to Billy Hurwitz MD......BA)
Former Midtown Medical Center owner heads to jail
Milwaukee Business Journal – Milwaukee,WI,USA
While Hurowitz was being investigated by the
Georgia Department of Community Health and by the
State Health Care Fraud Control Unit, he
falsified medical ...

<http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/atlanta/
stories/2007/03/26/daily9.html>

Much Wider Use of M.R.I.'s Urged for Breast Exam
By DENISE GRADY
Two reports call for greatly expanded use of M.R.I. scans
but radiologists are not equipped for more demand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/health/28mri.html?th&emc=th

Veterans Director in Arizona Steps Down After Violations
By PAUL GIBLIN and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
The resignation followed the public disclosure of health
and safety violations at a nursing home for veterans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28arizona.html?th&emc=th

Sheriff's Raid Can't Pry Client Files From Disbarred Lawyer's Grip
A half-dozen sheriff's deputies raided a disbarred attorney's office last week in New York City in search of the 43 boxes of files he has refused to hand over to the law firm that has taken over his biggest case, a wrongful-death action filed by a Bronx woman on behalf of her husband, a ship-rigger who plummeted to his death at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. For all practical purposes, the deputies came out of Kenneth Heller's office empty-handed.

<snip>

"In light of the cumulative evidence of respondent's 24-year history of sanctions, his perverse and persistent refusal to accept adverse rulings, reflective of an utter contempt for the judicial system, and his consistent, reprehensible, unprofessional behavior, which has included screaming at, threatening and disparaging judges, adversaries and experts, intentionally defying court rulings, and disrupting and thwarting proper legal process through both physical and verbal aggression, we are of the opinion that the appropriate sanction here is disbarment."

<snip>

The 78-year-old Heller has also sought adjournments based on conflicting medical claims. In January 2006, he sought a postponement of a hearing before Shafer because, he said, "I am under medicinal care and taking the antibiotic CYPRO [sic] which confines me to one place so that I cannot walk or travel anywhere." Three months later, he sought another delay. "I have a medical emergency," he swore in an affidavit. "I am forced to travel tonight to Sao Paolo, Brazil. My brother-in-law ... is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). He may expire unless he is getting the medical breathing device I am bringing."

<ttp://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?
id=1174912594060&pos=ataglance>

Two Judges in Anna Nicole Smith Case Get Reassigned
The two judges who oversaw the Anna Nicole Smith cases in Florida's Broward Circuit Court are swapping jobs -- at least temporarily. Chief Judge Dale Ross ordered the moves Tuesday in the wake of complaints and a newspaper editorial that Circuit Judge Lawrence Korda should be moved out of family court until his misdemeanor drug charge is resolved. Korda, who briefly oversaw the paternity dispute involving Smith's baby daughter, was cited on March 18 for possession of one marijuana cigarette weighing less than 0.1 gram. Police said they caught him smoking pot in a Hollywood, Fla., park. Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin, who gained national fame for his courtroom theatrics during the Anna Nicole Smith body custody case, will move from the probate to the family division to make way for Korda. But the central delay is Heller's demand for upwards of $12 million. "I must be compensated for the extraordinary time, effort and performance I rendered," Heller argued in a recent cross-motion seeking to vacate a contempt order. He estimated that his office has spent over 18,500 hours
-- more than nine years of 40-hour weeks -- on the case.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1174986235614&pos=ataglance

DG Alert: Zelnorm (tegaserod) will no longer be sold in the US because of side effect concerns.
More soon on www.docguide.com and in the next Doctor's Guide Weekly Edition.

http://tinyurl.com/6yaqf

MedWatch – The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program

FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients that Novartis has agreed to discontinue marketing Zelnorm, a drug used for the short-term treatment of women with irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and for patients younger than 65 years of age with chronic constipation. FDA analysis of safety data pooled from 29 clinical trials involving over 18,000 patients showed an excess number of serious cardiovascular adverse events, including angina, heart attacks, and stroke, in patients taking Zelnorm compared to patients given placebo. Patients taking Zelnorm should contact their healthcare professional to discuss treatment alternatives and seek emergency medical care if they experience severe chest pain, shortness of breath, sudden onset of weakness or difficulty walking or talking, or other symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. Healthcare professionals should assess their patients and transition them to other therapies as appropriate.
Read the complete MedWatch 2007 Safety summary, including a link to the

FDA Public Health Advisory regarding this issue at:

http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2007/safety07.htm#Zelnorm

CBS News, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 7:30 AM PDT
Medicine: Seeing The Big Picture

<ttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/29/
grad_schools/main2625243.shtml>

"Hospitalists" who oversee treatment of "the whole patient" are in demand. Research suggests that having them on staff results in shorter patient stays and more efficient, more cost-effective care for hospitalized patients.

The Columbus Dispatch, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 4:03 AM PDT
HEALTH BRIEFS

<ttp://www.dispatch.com/national-story.php?story=dispatch/2007/03/30/20070330-A9–00.html>

A drug used by several thousand patients with Parkinson?s disease is being pulled from the market because of reports of heart-valve damage.

The Sacramento Bee, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 0:17 AM PDT
He rolled past pain to fight disease

http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/146606.html

Kyle Bryant wasn't supposed to make it. Sure, he said he was going to ride his three-wheeled bicycle 2,400 miles from the California coast to Memphis, Tenn.

IBS Agent Tegaserod (Zelnorm) Is Pulled From Market
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA announced today that Novartis has agreed to withdraw Zelnorm (tegaserod), the only approved drug for irritable bowel syndrome (constipation), after a pooled analysis of 29 placebo-controlled, short-term trials found a small but statistically significant increase in ischemic events, including angina and stroke. The analysis identifed 13 such events, including one death, in more than 11,600 patients treated with tegaserod versus one event among a placebo group.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/

RedNova, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 5:01 AM PDT
VA Gives Timetable on Care Problems: Hospice Patients Not Accepted for 8 Months After '04 Investigation

<http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/885985/
va_gives_timetable_on_care_problems_hospice_
patients_not_accepted/index.html?source=r_health>

By Stella M. Hopkins, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Mar. 30--The Asheville veterans hospital didn't fully resume accepting nursing home patients for about eight months after suspending admissions in 2004 when VA investigators found serious care problems.

WIBW-TV Topeka, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 7:08 PM PDT
Sometimes it's not so much about curing your illness as it is coping with it.

http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/6780457.html

A local hospital formed a special group focused on that. Stormont-Vail's Palliative Care Team looks your whole situation and, instead of prescribing pills, prescribes a life.

Chicago Tribune, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 4:57 AM PDT
Deaths subject of probe 6 were residents of nursing home

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0703290688mar30,1,5520853.story?track=rss>

The family of a 78-year-old McHenry County nursing home resident had no suspicions that her death last year was unusual until Illinois State Police investigators began asking questions about a possible morphine overdose, the woman's daughter said Thursday.

FDA says pet food poison may be in dry food, too – and didn't rule out human food
I'm a contributing editor for Universal Press Syndicate's Pet Connection, a syndicated pet column appearing in around 70 newspapers nationwide. We've been covering the pet food recall story on our blog as well as our column. I just got out of an FDA press conference, where a reporter asked the agency's Dr. Stephen Sundlof if people could be feeding unsafe food to their pets right now, because the FDA won��t reveal the name of another company – one that makes dry or "kibbled" food as well as "wet" pet food – that received wheat gluten from the same source Menu did.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/30/114249/411

LOCAL: Former Fowlerville Village Council member pleads guilty Livingston Daily – Livingston,MI,USA
US Attorney Raymond Beckering said Rosemary Pushies could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250000 fine for performing health-care fraud at her clinic ...

<http://www.dailypressandargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS01/70330018/1002>

A WHACKED-OUT SYSTEM
by Jordan Smith
Inmate's lawsuit focuses on secret and unreasonable Texas paroles

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:460806

<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4672935.html>

From gurney, killer proclaims innocence in 1994 killings
Convict admits kidnapping but denies being there for double slaying HUNTSVILLE In his final moments Thursday, convicted murderer Roy Lee Pippin maintained his innocence, blasting those he said were responsible for his wrongful execution. "I charge the people of the jury, trial judge, the prosecutor that cheated to get this conviction," Pippin said while strapped to a gurney in Texas' death chamber. "I charge each and every one of you with the murder of an innocent man. You will answer to your maker when you find out you have executed an innocent man." Pippin, 51, was put to death for the 1994 kidnappings and fatal shootings of Miami cousins Elmer and Fabio Buitrago.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4673801.html

Dallas law firm to pay penalty, close office
Actions come in settlement of tax shelter charges
WASHINGTON Dallas-based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist will shut its doors and pay a $76 million civil penalty in agreements with federal prosecutors and the IRS over allegedly fraudulent tax shelters that the firm promoted, the government announced Thursday. The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service have spent four years examining Jenkens & Gilchrist and its promotion of shelters used to shield billions of dollars from taxes. The government's action against the firm appeared to mark an expansion of its crackdown on questionable tax shelters. In what has been called the largest criminal tax case in U.S. history, major accounting firm KPMG agreed in August 2005 to pay $456 million in a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department in which it admitted to fraudulent conduct in the design and marketing of tax shelters.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/4673112.html

Warren's prisons mean business
Lebanon Western Star – Lebanon,OH,USA
The prisons are exempt from property taxes and, like other workers at businesses outside of the county's incorporated areas, prison employees don't pay ...

<http://www.western-star.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/
2007/03/28/ws032907prisonsfront.html>

ASH support workers protest pay gap
San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
The projected boost is most significant for psychiatrists and senior psychologists, whose salaries will still be about 5 percent less than prison doctors. ...

<http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/16988625.htm>

Prison officials say they had no choice in abortion
Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice – Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
Fischi declined to identify the inmate who had the abortion, citing health-care privacy laws. She was pregnant when she arrived at the prison in December, ...

<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=
18135992&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6>

A Job For Every Person Willing and Able to Work
BlackNews.com (press release) – Long Beach,CA,USA
... in prison are those that prepare inmates for a life of crime, not of work. We do know what works. Early childhood health care, nutrition, and learning. ...

<http://blacknews.com/pr/job_for_every_person101.html>

Did doctor monitor NC executions?
Charlotte Observer – Charlotte,NC,USA
He said a registered nurse was responsible for observing
the brain-wavemonitor and reporting the reading to the
warden. ...

<http://charlotte.com/115/story/67330.html>

Patton nurses rally for raise
San Bernardino Sun – San Bernardino,CA,USA
And a licensed vocational nurse working at a state mental hospital makes between $2726 and $3425 a month, whereas one working in the prison system makes ...

<http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_5544548>

Lansing State Journal, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 1:17 AM PDT
State senator rips federal judge over prisoner health rulings

<http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/NEWS04/703290335>

A state lawmaker blasted a federal judge Tuesday for issuing a series of orders criticizing the health care of Michigan prisoners, at one point questioning whether the judge is lucid.

Lawmaker wrong on inmate care
The Saginaw News – Saginaw,MI,USA
"For constituents who are free people to not have a constitutional right of health care, but they've got to pay for some felon who broke the law to have it ...

<http://www.mlive.com/news/sanews/index.ssf?/base/news-1/117526262559590.xml&coll=9>

Independence woman gets three years for fraud
Kansas City Business Journal – Kansas City,MO,USA
Smith pleaded guilty Oct. 10 to health care fraud for her role in a conspiracy to defraud Health Midwest of more than $120000, Schlozman said....

<http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/
stories/2007/03/26/daily46.html?jst=b_ln_hl>

Peekskill police: Unemployed nurse deals heroin
White Plains Journal News – White Plains,NY,USA
PEEKSKILL – An unemployed nurse has been charged with selling heroin from her home in the Stonegate Apartments, police said today. ...

<http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS02/703300444>

HCC announces student success in Paramedic to Registered Nurse program McPherson Sentinel – McPherson,KS,USA
HUTCHINSON -- The 2007 Paramedic to Registered Nurse online bridge program at Hutchinson Community College posted a 100-percent pass rate on the National ...

<http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/articles/2007/03/30/news/news6.txt>

Nurse gives patient 1 of her kidneys
Arizona Republic – Phoenix,AZ,USA
As a nurse practitioner at Mayo Hospital Clinic, Rosati has seen how difficult it is for patients like him. After hearing that both of his sons were not ...

<http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/
articles/0331phx-nurse0331Z3.html>

(The trial would be worth watching if they'd quit interrupting it for all the Anna Nicole Smith gossip & speculation....BA)
Nurse's husband shot through throw pillow, prosecutor says
CourtTV – New York,NY,USA
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ �� A prosecutor at Melanie McGuire's murder trial said Friday that she plans to argue to jurors that the nurse's husband was shot to death ...

<http://www.courttv.com/trials/mcguire/033007_ctv.html>

Nurse's aide sorry for woman's fall
Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice – Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
WILKES-BARRE �� Negligence by a nurse's aide caused a
96-year-old womanto fall and break her nose Tuesday night
at the Heritage House nursing home, ...

<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18148022&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6>

Nurse pleads guilty to theft of drugs
MaineToday.com – Portland,ME,USA
AUGUSTA – A registered nurse from Windsor must surrender her nursing license as part of her sentence for acquiring drugs by deception. ... <snip>
Assistant District Attorney Paul Rucha said White diverted oxycodone -- a powerful, addictive painkiller -- delivered to the nursing home on Cony Road. 'The evidence that I had was that she ordered drugs that were not needed and then took them," Rucha said. "They were ordered under a patient's name, but there is no sign that a patient went without because she stole it." White worked at the Maine Veterans' Home for six years, until Feb. 16, 2006, when the thefts were discovered.

<http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/070330nurseguilty.html>

Pet Food Recall: Nationwide Class Action Filed By Audet & Partners ... Earthtimes.org – USA
Audet & Partners, LLP, represents individuals, governmental entities, small businesses and institutional shareholders in product liability, tort, negligence ...

<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/
news_press_release,83065.shtml>

Doctor charged in drug deaths
Honolulu Advertiser – Honolulu,HI,USA
Oxycodone, known by its trade name OxyContin, is considered to be widely abused. The two counts each carry sentences of 20 years to life in prison....

<http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS20/703300358/1001/NEWS>

New Findings in Misuse and Abuse of Medications and Addiction
Medscape (subscription) – USA
The preconference courses contained a session led by Dr. Howard Heit of Fairfax, Virginia on The Truth about Pain Management: The Interface of Pain and ...

<http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/554002>

"Barbara Acello, RN"
<(Address removed)>

Date: 30 Mar 2007 23:38:26 -0700
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <(Address removed)>
Reply-To: (Address removed)
Subject: [Net-Gold] LTC Articles

LTC Articles

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/us/28arizona.html?th&emc=th

Article of the Week: Obesity management
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RedNova, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 5:01 AM PDT
VA Gives Timetable on Care Problems: Hospice Patients Not Accepted for 8 Months After '04 Investigation

<http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/885985/
va_gives_timetable_on_care_problems_hospice_p
atients_not_accepted/index.html?source=r_health>

Charges filed against nursing assistant
Scranton Times-Tribune – Scranton,PA,USA
After the fall, which caused serious injuries, nursing assistant Christine M. Hill tried to cover up the incident and faked an ailment of her own, ...

<http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18147652&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6>

Incident brings elder abuse into spotlight
Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice – Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
On Thursday, Christine Hill, a certified nursing assistant at Heritage House in Wilkes-Barre, was arrested for allegedly endangering a 96-year-old resident ...

<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18148021&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6>

Schools offer fast track to nursing career
Detroit Free Press – Detroit,MI,USA
Schoolcraft College: Licensed practical nurse to associate's degree in nursing program, four semesters, offered spring semesters; nursing assistant, ...

<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/BUSINESS06/703300389/1019>

Woman's Body Exhumed In Nursing Home Investigation
NBC5.com – Chicago,IL,USA
Cole's body was the first exhumed, but there may be more to come, said Tom Carroll, McHenry County first assistant state's attorney. ...

<http://www.nbc5.com/family/11456223/detail.html>

REMAKING NURSING HOMES
Philadelphia Inquirer – Philadelphia,PA,USA
At the Willow Ridge Center in Hatboro, physical therapy assistant Al Principe watches John Smyth exercise during a therapy session. Smyth chose the nursing ...

<http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/
20070330_REMAKING_NURSING_HOMES.html>

Chicago Tribune, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 4:57 AM PDT
Deaths subject of probe 6 were residents of nursing home

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0703290688mar30,1,5520853.story?track=rss>

Cincinnati Business Courier, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 8:06 AM PDT
Nursing home still in play for Campbell County

<http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/
2007/03/26/daily58.html?from_rss=1>

A company that acquired the bed license from the defunct Lakeside Heights Nursing Center said it still plans to open a replacement home in Campbell County.

The York Dispatch, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 8:56 AM PDT
Nursing home union to vote on 'best and final offer' on Monday

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/local/ci_5557350

With the potential for a strike looming, York County will offer its unionized nursing home employees its "best and final" contract proposal for a union vote on Monday.

WSOC-TV 9 Charlotte, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 7:24 AM PDT
Western N.C. VA Hospital Disciplined In 2004 For Nursing Home Problems

http://www.wsoctv.com/news/11454439/detail.html?rss=char&psp=news

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- A veterans hospital in western North Carolina was told to temporarily stop admitting nursing home patients in 2004 when federal investigators found serious care problems, including a patient who died after an untrained worker removed fluid from his abdomen, a report says.

Northwest Herald, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:50 PM PDT
Police exhume body in nursing home inquiry

<http://www.nwherald.com/articles/2007/03/30/news/
local/doc460b2764368a8292107121.txt>

Authorities this week returned the remains of a woman to her grave after testing them in their investigation into a former Woodstock nursing home employee who might have purposefully given fatal doses of morphine to patients.

Quad-City Times, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:37 PM PDT
Former nursing home worker faces charges

<http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/03/30/news/
local/doc460ca08384aab956346521.txt>

A former Iowa Masonic Nursing Home employee faces several charges after being accused of stealing items from five patients, including jewelry and other items valued at 6,910.

Opelousas Daily World, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 0:41 AM PDT
Eunice nursing home evacuated after fire

<http://www.dailyworld.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS01/703300310>

EUNICE – A Eunice nursing home was evacuated Wednesday night after a small fire broke out. Rita Whittington, Eunice Manor DON, said in a news release that once smoke was detected around 9 p.m. Wednesday coming through the air conditioning vents the staff evacuated the residents.

Times Online, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 1:50 PM PDT
Woman drank bleach to avoid nursing home

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1588548.ece

A woman aged 89 died after drinking bleach the night before her family were to move her into a nursing home, an inquest was told yesterday.

WJAC 6 Johnstown, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 3:50 PM PDT

Changes Expected At Centre County Nursing Home

<http://www.wjactv.com/news/11441989/
detail.html?rss=john&psp=news>

After recent health violations, a new administrator
will likely be named at Centre Crest Nursing Home.

Advocates for the elderly
The Spokesman Review – Spokane,WA,USA
The perfectly coiffed senior in a striking pink jacket isn't employed by the long-term care facility, nor is she a resident. She is a volunteer with the ...

<http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=181596>

A long-term repair for long-term care in Pennsylvania
Towanda Daily Review – Towanda,PA,USA
Yet, as the Times-Tribune in Scranton put it, the state is well behind most other states in adapting to financial trends affecting long-term care, ...

<http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2276&dept_id=465724&newsid=
18136074&PAG=461&rfi=9>

State is looking at ways to deal with increasing health-care costs
The Advocate – Newark,OH,USA
Currently, seniors seeking long-term care have several options but face numerous restrictions. Senate Bill 5 is designed to relax these guidelines and ...

<http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070329/OPINION02/703290361/1014/OPINION>

Single-Payer Health Care: "Incompetence, Debt, Misery and Filth ...
The National Center for Public Policy Research – Washington,DC,USA
The late Eileen Fahey, for instance, dying of cancer, was put onto a mixed geriatric ward where confused people wandered about without supervision....

<http://www.nationalcenter.org/Z032907=
single_payer_health_care.html>

<http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/articles/
2007/03/30/news/news6.txt>

Nurse's aide sorry for woman's fall
Wilkes Barre Citizen's Voice – Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
WILKES-BARRE Negligence by a nurse's aide caused a 96-year-old woman
to fall and break her nose Tuesday night at the Heritage House nursing home, ...

<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18148022&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6>

Nurse pleads guilty to theft of drugs
MaineToday.com – Portland,ME,USA

AUGUSTA – A registered nurse from Windsor must surrender her nursing license as part of her sentence for acquiring drugs by deception. ...

<snip>

Assistant District Attorney Paul Rucha said White diverted oxycodone -- a powerful, addictive painkiller -- delivered to the nursing home on Cony Road. 'The evidence that I had was that she ordered drugs that were not needed and then took them," Rucha said. "They were ordered under a patient's name, but there is no sign that a patient went without because she stole it." White worked at the Maine Veterans' Home for six years, until Feb. 16, 2006, when the thefts were discovered.

<http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/
070330nurseguilty.html>

RedNova, Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:02 PM PDT
Nursing Home Could Be Saved

<http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/885773/
nursing_home_could_be_saved/index.html?source=r_health>

By Francis X. Gilpin, Montgomery Advertiser, Ala.
Mar. 29--Gov. Bob Riley
has asked

State Health Director Donald E.

Minnesota Public Radio

, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:15 AM PDT
Minn. Senate sweetens health bill with cash for nursing homes

<http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/
web/2007/03/30/omnibus/?rsssource=1>

The Minnesota Senate rushed out and got a last-minute gift for nursing homes before voting Thursday to make the state's health and welfare programs more generous.

TNT moves to revitalize state's long-term care issues
Nashville City Paper – Nashville,TN,USA
After studying the issue of Tennessee's long-term care options for elderly citizens, Tying Nashville Together with the help of some local agencies is ...

<http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&news_id=55420>

Long-Term Care Benefits for Veterans and Surviving Spouses ElderLawAnswers.com – Boston,MA,USA
Long-term care costs can add up quickly. For veterans and the surviving spouses of veterans who need in-home care or are in a nursing home, ...

<http://www.elderlawanswers.com/resources/
article.asp?id=6158&section=4&state=>

In Canada, but may be of interest..........BA
Snoezelen room at Willow Grove long-term care home has had ...
Hamilton Spectator – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
The Willow Grove Long-term Care Home opened its Snoezelen room about a year ago and I have seen amazing results with my mother. ...

<http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/
ContentServerpagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=
Article&cid=1175231302417&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=
1112876262536>

http://tinyurl.com/27nwdn

pdf of newspaper page:

http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/pdfs/20070330/A12.pdf

Nursing home records on Web site
Kentucky Post – Covington,KY,USA
The delay was recorded as a Level 3
deficiency in the nursing home's annual
state inspection report in July 2006.
Inspectors said the facility failed
to ...

<http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070330/NEWS02/703300360/1014>

Request denied for nursing home move
Bolivar Commercial – Cleveland,MS,USA
Mid-South Associates, LLC contends that the average daily census has declined in Bolivar County, indicating a decrease in the demand for nursing home ...

<http://www.bolivarcom.com/NF/omf/bolivar/
news_story.html?rkey=0026506+cr=gdn>

NKU Buying Former Nursing Home For Student Housing
WCPO – Cincinnati,OH,USA
The university is buying the former Lakeside Heights Nursing Home in Highland Heights and hope to house about 460 students in the building. ...

<http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=cb6b8ed4–7066–4884–9662–786ef96f4764>

Napolitano staff told immediately of vet home trouble
KVOA.com – Tucson,AZ,USA
PHOENIX State officials say top aides to Governor Napolitano were told about reported shortcomings in care at the state nursing home for veterans up to six ...

<http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6305356&nav=HMO6>

Western NC VA Hospital Disciplined In 2004 For Nursing Home Problems WSOCtv.com – Charlotte,NC,USA
ASHEVILLE, NC -- A veterans hospital in western North Carolina was told to temporarily stop admitting nursing home patients in 2004 when federal ...

<http://www.wsoctv.com/news/11454439/detail.html>

Nursing home gets more financial help
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette – Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
URBANA �� The Champaign County Board voted unanimously Thursday to lend another $300000 to the county nursing home to keep it running. ...

<http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/03/30/
nursing_home_gets_more_financial_help>

(I guess I can't blame them if their checks are bouncing. The problem here is that the press is not interested in covering it when they save a life or do something good.........BA)
Staff walks out at N. Side nursing home
Chicago Tribune – Chicago,IL,USA
Saying they hadn't been paid in months or their paychecks have been bouncing, certified nursing assistants walked off the job today at a nursing home on ...

<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070330nursinghome,1,7517228.story?coll=chi-news-hed>

Heritage House nurse aide suspended without pay
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader – Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
By EDWARD LEWIS (Address removed). WILKES-BARRE �� The Wyoming Valley Health Care System issued a press release Thursday night in connection with the ...

<http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/
20070330_30heritage.html>

Health Department is vital partner in community
Pueblo Business Journal – Pueblo,CO,USA
Norovirus, which causes severe gastroenteritis, has been implicated in 14 nursing home outbreaks during the past six months, involving more than 500...

<http://www.thepbj.com/story.cfm?ID=10448>

"Barbara Acello, RN"
<(Address removed)>

Date: 31 Mar 2007 01:52:38 -0700
From: Sean Grigsby <(Address removed)>
Reply-To: (Address removed)
To: (Address removed)
Subject: [Net-Gold] Baseball 27

Kansas City MSBL
http://www.kcmsbl.com/

Granite State Baseball League http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=gsbl

Tri County League
http://www.tricountyleague.com/

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DC Metro MSBL
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Indianapolis MSBL
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EIBL
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Mid Iowa Baseball League
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LABL
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CMABL
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MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: ALZHEIMER'S :
MEDICAL: PHARMACY PHARMACEUTICAL PHARMACOLOGY: DRUG: ADVERSE EVENT:
Why Sedatives 'Are Making Alzheimer's Patients Die Early'

Why Sedatives 'Are Making Alzheimer's Patients Die Early'
BY JENNY HOPE
Last updated at 00:25am on 30th March 2007
Daily Mail
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/
healthmain.html?in_article_id=445538&in_page_id=1774>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/373aa3>

Thousands of patients with Alzheimer's disease die prematurely because they are prescribed unlicensed sedative drugs, doctors claim.

The first long-term study shows sufferers die on average six months earlier after being treated with medication designed for schizophrenics.

Campaigners claimed Alzheimer's patients with behavioural problems are being "killed" to make life easier for staff looking after them.

But doctors say there is a lack of alternatives, after a ban imposed last year on anti-dementia drugs costing only 2.50 a day for sufferers with both mild and severe symptoms.

An estimated 100,000 patients with Alzheimer's around 45 per cent of those living in nursing homes are prescribed the drugs even though they are not licensed for the condition.

The five-year study into the sedatives, known as antipsychotics or neuroleptics, was funded by the Alzheimer's Research Trust.

<snip>

The drugs involved were thioridazine (Mellaril), chlorpromazine (Largactil), haloperidol (Serenace), trifluoperazine (Stelazine) and risperidone (Risperdal).

After three years, only a third of patients prescribed the drugs were alive, compared with two-thirds of those not taking them.

The drugs were also linked with a significant deterioration in verbal fluency and cognitive function.

Researcher Clive Ballard, professor of age-related disorders at King's College London, said: "Even over a six-month period of treatment there is no benefit from these drugs in treating the behaviour in people with Alzheimer's disease when the symptoms are mild.

"These drugs cause the shortening of patients' lives. The system is killing a substantial number of people."

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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FOOD DRINK NUTRITION DIET: FOOD: CONTAMINATION AND POISONING :
PETS: HEALTH:
FDA Identifies Chemical in Poisoned Pet Food

FDA Identifies Chemical in Poisoned Pet Food
Agency Also Investigating to Determine if Dry Food Is Affected
By William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 30, 2007; 1:38 PM <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2007/03/30/AR2007033000830.html?hpid=topnews>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2p7xek>

The Food and Drug Administration has identified contaminated wheat gluten from China as the likely cause of poisoned pet food that has sickened a number of dogs and cats, and the agency is investigating to determine whether dry pet foods have also been affected, officials said today.

In a news conference, Stephen F. Sundlof, director of the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, said FDA and independent laboratories have found a chemical called melamine in pet food samples, imported wheat gluten and urine and tissue from diseased pets. He said melamine is used in fertilizer in Asia and in plastic products but is not registered as a fertilizer in the United States.

"Melamine is an ingredient that should not be in pet food at any level," Sundlof said. Nor does it have any approved use in food for humans. He said the FDA is not aware that any of the contaminated wheat gluten went into human food, but said he could not confirm this "with 100 percent certainty."

Sundlof and FDA investigative officials said a company that was found to have imported the contaminated wheat gluten manufactures dry pet food as well as "wet" or "moist" food similar to that previously identified as the source of the illnesses. However, they said, investigators have not yet determined whether any of the wheat gluten has been used in any dry pet food.

The officials declined to name the pet food company or the supplier pending the outcome of the investigation.

"The company that received the gluten that we found to be positive for melamine has been notified," said David Elder, director of the FDA's Office of Enforcement. "We have investigators in the plant today to determine what, if any, finished products were made from that adulterated wheat gluten."

The FDA previously was focusing on "cuts and gravy" pet food manufactured by Ontario-based Menu Foods, which earlier this month recalled more than 60 million cans and pouches sold under 53 dog food brand names and 42 cat brands.

The recall did not apply to dry pet foods.

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

ECOLOGY: ENDANGERED SPECIES:
Study Finds Shark Overfishing May Lower Scallop Population

Study Finds Shark Overfishing May Lower Scallop Population
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Published: March 30, 2007
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/science/30sharks.html?
em&ex=1175400000&en=9cf8bf1aa09d8583&ei=5087%0A>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2jsjxw>

For years, conservationists have warned about overfishing of large sharks in the northwestern Atlantic, as the demand for meat and fins, coupled with slow growth and reproduction rates of many species, has caused sharp declines in populations of hammerheads, duskies and other sharks.

Researchers are now reporting repercussions beyond the declining shark populations. Depletion of large sharks, they write today in the journal Science, has led to the destruction of the bay scallop fishery along parts of the Eastern seaboard.

The study, by Ransom A. Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and colleagues, is among the few to document the cascading effects that the loss of a top predator can have on a marine ecosystem. In the absence of large sharks, the researchers say, the smaller sharks, skates and rays that they feed upon have thrived. In turn, the study shows that as one of these middle links in the food chain, the cownose ray, has become more abundant, it has wiped out scallop beds in North Carolina.

People are always asking me why we should care about sharks, said Ellen Pikitch, a marine biologist at the University of Miami and executive director of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science, a major funder of the study. This is a great example of why sharks matter to the broader ecosystem.

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

FOOD DRINK NUTRITION DIET: FOOD: CONTAMINATION AND POISONING:
FDA Says Pet Food Poison May Be in Dry Food, too – And Didn't Rule
out Human Food

FDA Says Pet Food Poison May Be in Dry Food, too – And Didn't Rule
out Human Food
by ChristieKeith
Fri Mar 30, 2007 at 08:53:54 AM PDT
Daily Kos
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/30/114249/411>

I just got out of an FDA press conference, where a reporter asked the agency's Dr. Stephen Sundlof if people could be feeding unsafe food to their pets right now, because the FDA wont reveal the name of another company – one that makes dry or "kibbled" food as well as "wet" pet food – that received wheat gluten from the same source Menu did.

ChristieKeith's diary :: ::
The response? "It is possible, but I think weve been following every lead that we can. My sense is that we have gotten most of it under control."

As soon as we have any information, he assured us this morning, well notify the public.

Except for the name of the company, it seems.

How about the numbers? asked another attendee. Youre still saying only 15 confirmed deaths, but some reports are in the thousands. How do you explain the discrepancy?

Dr. Sundlof said FDA cant confirm any cases beyond those first few in Menus test labs, even though they have received over 8800 additional reports, because "we have not had the luxury of confirming these reports." Theyll work on that, he said, after they "make sure all the product is off the shelves."

<snip>

Karen Roebuck of the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, who broke the story earlier this morning that melamine, not aminopterin (a rat poison), had been found in the tested foods, asked if any of the wheat gluten had found its way into the human food supply.

The complete weblog entry and other important entries regarding this issue may be read in the weblog found at the URL above.

Thanks to Jules Siegel for posting regarding this weblog entry to Newsroom-L.

Christie Keith publishes a syndicated column that is distributed to seventy newspapers.

LAW: CASES :
EDUCATION RELATED BUSINESS AND FIRMS:
McLean Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service

Fairfax Schools
McLean Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service
Plaintiffs Say Company's Database of Term Papers, Essays Violates Copyright Laws
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 29, 2007; Page B05
Washington Post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802038.html>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2nknq6>

Two McLean High School students have launched a court challenge against a California company hired by their school to catch cheaters, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violates copyright laws.

The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, seeks $900,000 in damages from the for-profit service known as Turnitin. The service seeks to root out cheaters by comparing student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers as well as online sources and electronic archives of journals. In the process, the student papers are added to the database.

<snip>

"All of these kids are essentially straight-A students, and they have no interest in plagiarizing," said Robert A. Vanderhye, a McLean attorney representing the students pro bono. "The problem with [Turnitin] is the archiving of the documents. They are violating a right these students have to be in control of their own property."

<snip>

The legal dispute comes amid a debate over the best way to ensure students are doing their own work at a time when the Internet can make it easy to cheat. Many educators, including Fairfax County school officials, say Turnitin is an effective way to police for plagiarism.

Attorneys for the company and various universities and public school systems, including Fairfax , have concluded that the service doesn't violate student rights.

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

There is also a substantial amount of discussion of this case on the

PIJIP-COPYRIGHT Archives March 2007, week 5

<http://roster.wcl.american.edu/cgi-bin/
wa.exe?A1=ind0703e&L=pijip-copyright>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2mlmr6>

And regarding PIJIP-Copyright

In times past, I always refered people who asked these kinds of questions to the CNI-Copyright discussion group owned by the Consortium for Networked Information. This is no longer possible as the ownership of that list has now changed.

<http://www.cni.org/forums/cni-copyright/>

Changes to this forum:

"On Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, American University (AU) assumed ownership of this listserv, under the leadership of Professor Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at the Washington College of Law at AU. The CNI address for this list, [log in to unmask], was discontinued and the list was renamed PIJIP-COPYRIGHT. To subscribe to the new list, or for more information about it, go to

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Those on this list who have either copyright questions of their own or their clients or have an interest in copyright issues may want to keep this list at its new location in mind

<http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0703e&L=medlib-l&T=0&P=751>

<https://listserv.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/
wa-iub.exe?A2=ind0703E&L=MLA-L&T=0&F=&S=&P=3071>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/ysgcbw>

WRITING AND WRITERS: PLAGIARISM :
EDUCATION: COLLEGE: STUDENTS:
Ohio University Pulls First Master's Degree for Plagiarism

Ohio University Pulls First Master's Degree for Plagiarism
2007–03–29
Athens News <http://www.athensnews.com/issue/article.php3?story_id=27772>

Ohio University has revoked the master's degree of a former mechanical engineering student whose thesis contained plagiarized material.

This is the first degree revocation to stem from the university's review in spring 2006 of engineering and technology theses and dissertations. OU launched the review after a former student voiced suspicions about plagiarism in documents he was researching.

"Revoking a degree is the very last resort for an institution of higher education," Provost Kathy Krendl said in a news release. "We have put rigorous processes in place, and we are taking the results of those reviews and hearings seriously. We cannot tolerate plagiarism."

When the alleged plagiarism was first brought to light, three committees reviewed 55 documents. The Russ College of Engineering and Technology examined the documents, and then a provost-appointed committee affirmed the results and made recommendations. A third committee of faculty and students from various disciplines acted as a grand jury.

Finally, documents with suspected plagiarism were forwarded to the university's judicial system (for current students) or a hearing committee (for former students). Final adjudication is still underway.

To make sure that any other problems were uncovered, more than 180 additional theses and dissertations were also examined. These included:

* all other theses and dissertations that had been overseen by the two faculty members who advised many of the writers of the original 55 suspect documents;

* several dozen that the current dean and another faculty member volunteered for review;

* additional documents that came into question; and

* an analytical sample of all engineering and technology theses and dissertations dating back to the 1980s.

The complete article may be read at the URL above.

EDUCATION: K-12: CURRICULUM :
EDUCATION: K-12: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
Curriculum for Education Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education

Curriculum for Education Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education

A member of the K12ADMINLIFE discussion group posted this excellent question.

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What curriculum do you use for teaching technology literacy?

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My thinking in answering this question where I have no personal experience is to enlist the ideas of experts through published articles on this topic so that the requester can benefit from some real experts in this matter. Anyone reading this post who would like to contribute to this discussion is welcome to do so.

Since the question came as a response to a post from Bonnie Bracey Sutton, I think that some web sources pertinent to this question would be a good starting place. I invite responses from others on this list to add to the information shared regarding this useful question.

WEBBIB0607

DDN Communities: Literacy and Learning <http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/literacy>

[DDN] [Net-Gold] Exam Measures Students' 'Information Literacy' <http://www.digitaldivide.net/pipermail/digitaldivide/2006-February/004955.html>

The Technology Coordinator: Curriculum
Leader or Electronic Janitor
Rob Reilly Ed.D.
February 20, 1999
1999 MultiMedia School magazine. All rights reserved. <http://www.umass.edu/ednet/janitor.html>

Spiral Notebook " What can schools do to increase interest in science, math, and engineering? http://www.edutopia.org/community/spiralnotebook/?p=149

Plugging In
<http://www.time.com/time/teach/plug.html>

Subject: [Net-Gold] Information Literacy
Report: Students Struggle with Information Literacy <http://tinyurl.com/28h5u6>

The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, & Technology
September 24, 2004 -- Volume 3, Number 20
A Publication of the Internet Scout Project
Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison <http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/NSDL/MET/2004/met-040924-printable.html>

Learner Identity, Learning Technologies, and Learner Diversity:
A Review of the Literature
Caroline E. Parker, Ed.D. <http://www2.edc.org/GDI/PDFfiles/SLC_%20LitReview_Final.pdf>

Does Technology Enhance or Detract
From School Improvement Efforts?
A Debate
Janet A. Buckenmeyer, Ph.D.
Purdue University Calumet
and
David J. Freitas, Ed.D.
Indiana University South Bend <http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/uploads/NECC2005/
KEY_7480354/Freitas_buckenmeyerNECC2005.pdf>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/2c2bfq>

Below are some citations to articles that I believe will be helpful reading for providing useful answers and insights to answer this question posed on K12ADMINLIFE regarding curriculum for teaching technology literacy.

Should There Be a National Curriculum for Technological Literacy? Technology Teacher
February 2007 v. 66 no. 5 p. 29–33

Development and Testing of Math Insight Software.
Zucker, Andrew A..
Journal of Educational Technology Systems
2006 v. 34 no. 4 p. 371–386

What's the Big Issue? Creating Standards-Based Curriculum
Hider, Glenn R.
Technology Teacher
v. 65 no. 4 p. 30–35 December 2005 / January 2006

New Standards-Based Curriculum Documents.
Technology Teacher
March 2005 v. 64 no. 6 p. 3

Technology ed textbook
Tech Directions
February 2005 v. 64 no. 7 p. 32

A Formula for Successful Technology Integration Must Include Curriculum Boyle, Ann
MultiMedia and Internet@Schools
January / February 2005 v. 12 no. 1 p. 30–32

Standards-Based Curriculum Development for Pre-Service and In-Service:
A "Partnering" Approach Using Modified Backwards Design
Shumway, Steve; Berrett, Jared
Technology Teacher
v. 64 no. 3 p. 26 November 2004

Virtual Reality Robotic Programming Software in the Technology Classroom Geissler, Jason; Knott, Patrick J.; Vazquez, Matthew R.
Technology Teacher
v. 63 no. 6 p. 6 March 2004

Towards an Analysis of Visual Images in School Science Textbooks and Press Articles about Science and Technology.
Dimopoulos, Kostas; Koulaidis, Vasilis; Sklaveniti, Spyridoula.
Research in Science Education
v. 33 no. 2 p. 189–216 2003

Serving the Non-Traditional Student through a Technology-Enhanced Curriculum
Manner, Jane C.
TechTrends
v. 47 no. 5 p. 32–35 September / October 2003

Translating Standards for Technological Literacy into Curriculum
Reeve, Edward M.
Technology Teacher
October 2002 v. 62 no. 2 p. 33

Standards-Based Curriculum: What Does It Look Like?
Valesey, Brigitte
Technology Teacher
March 2002 v. 61 no. 6 p. 6

Designing and Implementing an Integrated Mathematics, Science, and Technology Curriculum for the Middle School
Satchwell, Richard E.; Loepp, Franzie L.
Journal of Industrial Teacher Education
Spring 2002 v. 39 no. 3 p. 41–66

Why technology should be integrated into the curriculum as a core subject Gilberti, Anthony F.
NASSP Bulletin
v. 83 no. 608 September 1999 p. 1–15

Infusing technology and literacy into the undergraduate teacher education curriculum through the...
Richards, Rhonda Taylor.
T H E Journal
April 1998 v. 25 no. 9 p. 46

Finally, I am adding an observation of my own.

Instruction in bibliographic databases is largely absent from the instruction provided at both K-12 and college classroom instruction in the educational settings I have encountered either from teacher or student report. Many if not most students are not taught about bibliographic databases, let alone how to use them at any level of their education experience. At best they may get an hour session regarding these tools from a librarian once or twice in their student career. If one were to suggest spending an hour or two to teach students their entire curriculum exposure in say mathematics or physics, one would laugh the idea off of this planet. So much ink has been spilled in critical exasperation that many students will only use the Wikipedia or Google as the resource finding tools for their reports and research content. Yet the counteraction of providing quality training in the use of databases provided for the public including K-12 students and teachers by many states through public library systems in the United States or by public libraries on their own is ignored by a large number of educators. Instead bibliographic databases are kept a dark secret in many educational environments or simply cited as a resource without instruction in their use.

There is no charge to end users to use these powerful tools. A search of the term WEBBIB0607 will produce in Google Groups, a collection of posts provided this fiscal year that have bibliographies that have been created through the use of databases. The home of Net-Gold on Yahoo Groups will also produce a similar collection of these posts with a search of the "term" WEBBIB0607 in the site search engine for Net-Gold on Yahoo Groups.

To learn more about these databases, one could start with this URL.

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/msearch?query=
database&submit=Search&charset=windows-1252>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/uz879>

and this URL as well:

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/
msearch?query=databases&submit=Search&charset=utf-8>

A shorter URL for the above link:

<http://tinyurl.com/y2hcdr>

K12ADMINLIFE
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/K12AdminLIFE/>

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:58:24 -0500
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <(Address removed)>
Reply-To: (Address removed)
Subject: [LitigatedDisability_Professional] back injured nurses

Forwarding this for any/all interested parties:

March 30, 2007
Dear WING USA friends:

The 7th annual Safe Patient Handling and Movement Conference was held March 12–16, 2007, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Attendance continues growing and totaled about 1,000 this year, with nearly 700 pre-registered and walk-in attendees and over 300 people associated with about 50 exhibits of the latest technology for safe patient lifting and moving, no lifting programs, etc. Watch www.visn8.med.va.gov/patientsafetycenter for details on this year's conference and mark your calendars for next year, March 10–14, 2008.

My session titled ��The Real-Life Story of a Back-Injured Healthcare Worker: The Costs of Injury are High�� was well-attended. I spoke about my own injury, about why and how lifting patients can cause microfractures to spinal structures which can lead to ��degenerative disc disease,�� and about the widespread practice of terminating back-injured nurses and other healthcare workers who can no longer lift.

The literature mentions that most nurse back injury is from cumulative trauma,�� often without describing damage to specific structures caused by manual patient lifting. Additionally, available data minimizes the severity of healthcare worker injury by specifying sprains and strains as musculoskeletal injury and excluding herniated spinal discs. This would appear to indicate that the primary risk with patient lifting is muscle strain rather than severe spinal damage. We are not losing 12 per cent of our nurse workforce to muscle strain which would be expected to heal in a matter of days or weeks. The severity of spinal injuries caused by lifting people must become more widely known.

Nurses and nursing students must be taught precisely how cumulative microfractures to vertebral endplates and to the nucleus of discs, from repetitively lifting hazardous amounts of weight, can occur over time without pain, until it is too late. Sudden intense pain may announce severely deteriorated spinal discs, identified as degenerative disc disease�� on MRI. After suffering permanent spinal damage, the claims of back-injured nurses are often denied by workers compensation which prefers to focus on single-point-in-time events and often denies degenerative disc disease as pre-existing.

Incidentally, my own workers compensation case required two court appearances, but was ultimately won based on cumulative microtrauma to my spine from years of lifting people. With scientific evidence proving the hazard to the spine from patient lifting, my attorney, Mr. Mike Stebbins, North Bend, Oregon, presented a convincing case. Particularly convincing was the review of research, including nurse injury from patient lifting, in Section E. Disorders of the Low Back in the Ergonomics Program Final Rule, which was rescinded by President Bush. Mr. Stebbins says he will be glad to talk with other attorneys representing injured nurses with similar cases and can be contacted at 541–756–2066.

To access Section E. Disorders of the Low Back, of the rescinded Ergo Standard, see the Federal Register, Nov. 14, 2000, online at

<http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/a001114c.html>

Scroll down to Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Rules, Ergonomics Program. Select pages 68461–68510. Scroll down to page 68468 and Section E.

At any rate, it seems that the practice of unsafe manual patient lifting essentially requires nursing staff to suffer injuries. Workers compensation then frequently denies that the injuries are work-related, and employers frequently terminate injured nurses when they are unable to return to all of the same duties given as essential functions of the job, in this case, lifting.

It was encouraging to meet others from healthcare organizations which retain their injured nurses at the same pay grade, without loss of seniority, in other non-lifting nursing positions. Such organizations should be held forth as role models for many healthcare facilities which routinely discard nurses and other healthcare workers when damaged too badly to be used for further lifting.

While celebrating the passage and introduction of safe patient handling legislation in a number of states, and into the U.S. House of Representatives, it is time to recognize that there are two parts to the problem: 1. Stopping injuries caused by manual patient lifting and 2. Retaining injured nurses and other healthcare workers whose backs, necks, shoulders, etc., have been sacrificed to barbaric unsafe lifting practices.

In addition to outlawing hazardous manual patient lifting, an associated campaign for retention of work-injured nurses must be launched. Ethics aside, it is difficult to understand why, during the most critical nurse shortage ever, there seems to be no large-scale objection to the termination of injured nurses who want to work.

I have heard from many nurses badly damaged by lifting people. Every one is a tale of pain, suffering, and loss, the majority of which could have been prevented by use of appropriate lift equipment. The evening I returned home from the SPHM Conference, I received an email from a nurse which says in part:

��With eight herniated discs, I'm trying to wean myself off of pain meds and try to go back to work. The bank foreclosed and I lost my house after getting hurt and worker's comp insurance company fighting me and refusing to pay. Judge after judge found in my favor and ordered them to pay, but they kept appealing and appealing...and I lost my house. Nice, huh? I'm going stir crazy just sitting watching TV. I can't walk or stand for more than five minutes or so. But there's gotta be some kind of desk job I can do. My brain is fine; it's my back that's not.

This nurse has lost her healthy spine, her nursing career, and her home. The physical devastation from injuries which may have been prevented is bad enough, but, pathetically, there appears to be no system in place to help her and many other injured nurses remain with their employers to avert related career and financial disaster.

Many healthcare facilities still expect work-disabled nurses to just go away. The lucky ones start over at the bottom somewhere else. One nurse disabled by patient lifting was told they didn't care where she went, she could use her critical thinking skills flipping hamburgers, they didn't care, as long as she went back to work. Many enter nursing idealistically believing that nurses and nursing work are highly valued. To be dismissed with such distain after serving so fervently is, to say the least, devastating.

Some said legislation for safe patient handling would never be achieved, yet a wave is occurring across the country which is expected to culminate in passage of a national standard. One thousand people at the 2007 SPHM Conference represent many thousands more working toward implementation of new practices for the safe handling of dependent persons.

It is hoped that a response on a similar scale will occur to assist work-injured nurses, who have sacrificed so much, to remain with the employers where they were injured. Continued silence, and apparent lack of action by many to retain work-injured nurses, seems an implicit endorsement of unchallenged dispose-a-nurse practices, an unsuitable reward for America's most respected profession.

Sincere best wishes to all Anne

Anne Hudson, RN, BSN
March 30, 2007
Founder Work Injured Nurses' Group USA
Coos Bay, Oregon
(Address removed)
www.wingusa.org

BOOKS: AUDIO:
Gutenberg: The Audio Books Project

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We are still adding new audio eBooks read by people, primarily through work by LiteralSystems.org and Librivox.

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The computer-generated voices used in these books are similar to those on automated systems used by the blind, as well as some telephone automation systems.

Most of these titles were generated by Mike Eschman, but a few were made by other people. Over time, the procedures used to generate the audio eBooks changed, so not all audio eBooks have the same sound or pacing by the computer voice.

We have stopped adding computer-generated eBooks. Instead, we are working on methods to automatically make computer-generated eBooks on demand (that is, by choosing options, then getting the file within a short time).

We are aware of numerous anomalies in the computer-generated eBooks, and working to resolve them (slowly!). It turned out that many files were broken and lost: most of Jack London's works are missing, and our Charles Dickens Christmas Carol only has the "small print" license, but no actual eBook. We are regenerating some, removing others, and fixing what we can. If you find something wrong with one of the audio eBooks, chances are it's already on the list to fix, eventually.

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Aesop, 620? BC-563? BC
Aesop's Fables (English)

Amundsen, Roald, 1872–1928

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910–12 Volume 1 and Volume 2 (English)

Anonymous

The Diary of a U-boat Commander
With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne (English)
Balzac, Honor de, 1799–1850
Droll Stories (English)
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770–1827
Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words (English) Boz
See: Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron
See: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803–1873

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849–1924

The Secret Garden (English)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875–1950
At the Earth's Core (English)
Beasts of Tarzan (English)
The Chessmen of Mars (English)
The Efficiency Expert (English)
Gods of Mars (English)
Jungle Tales of Tarzan (English)
The Land That Time Forgot (English)
The Lost Continent (English)
The Mad King (English)
The Monster Men (English)
The Mucker (English)
The Oakdale Affair (English)
The Outlaw of Torn (English)
Pellucidar (English)
People out of Time (English)
A Princess of Mars (English)
Return of Tarzan (English)
Son of Tarzan (English)
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (English)
Tarzan of the Apes (English)
Tarzan the Terrible (English)
Tarzan the Untamed (English)
Thuvia (English)
War-lord of Mars (English)

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547–1616

Don Quixote (English)

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
See: Twain, Mark, 1835–1910

Conrad, Joseph, 1857–1924

Almayer's Folly (English)
Amy Foster (English)
The Arrow of Gold (English)
Chance (English)
End of the Tether (English)
Falk (English)
Heart of Darkness (English)
Lord Jim (English)
The Mirror of the Sea (English)
Nostromo (English)
Notes on Life and Letters (English)
An Outcast of the Islands (English)
A Personal Record (English)
The Rescue (English)
The Secret Agent (English)
The Secret Sharer (English)
A Set of Six (English)
The Shadow Line (English)
Some Reminiscences (English)
Tales of Unrest (English)
To-morrow (English)
'Twixt Land and Sea (English)
Typhoon (English)
Under Western Eyes (English)
Victory (English)
Within the Tides (English)
Youth (English)

Cook, James, 1728–1779

Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World (English)

Crane, Stephen, 1871–1900

A Girl of the Streets (English)
Darwin, Charles, 1809–1882
On the Origin of Species (English)
The Voyage of the Beagle (English)

Davis, Richard Harding, 1864–1916

Cuba in War Time (English)

Defoe, Daniel, 1661–1731

Captain Mission (English)
The Consolidator (English)
Dickory Cronke (English)
Essay Upon Projects (English)
Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business (English)
From London to Land's End (English)
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (English)
A Journal of the Plague Year (English)
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (English)
Moll Flanders (English)
Robinson Crusoe (English)
Tour through the Eastern Counties of England (English)
Diaz, Porfirio, 1836–1915
El Presidente Diaz al Senor Edison (Spanish)

Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870

All the Year Round (English)
American Notes (English)
Barnaby Rudge (English)
The Battle of Life (English)
Bleak House (English)
A Child's History of England (English)
The Chimes (English)
A Christmas Carol (English)
Cricket on the Hearth (English)
David Copperfield (English)
Doctor Marigold (English)
Dombey and Son (English)
George Silverman's Explanation (English)
Going into Society (English)
Great Expectations (English)
Hard Times (English)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargin (English)
Holiday Romance (English)
The Holly-Tree (English)
A House to Let (English)
Hunted Down (English)
The Lamplighter (English)
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices (English)
Little Dorrit (English)
Martin Chuzzlewit (English)
Master Humphrey's Clock (English)
A Message from the Sea (English)
Miscellaneous Papers (English)
Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy (English)
Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings (English)
Mudfog and Other Sketches (English)
Mugby Junction (English)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (English)
Nicholas Nickleby (English)
No Thoroughfare (English)
The Old Curiosity Shop (English)
Oliver Twist (English)
Our Mutual Friend (English)
Perils of Certain English Prisoners (English)
The Pickwick Papers (English)
Pictures from Italy (English)
Reprinted Pieces (English)
The Seven Poor Travellers (English)
Sketches by Boz (English)
Sketches of Young Couples (English)
Sketches of Young Gentlemen (English)
Somebody's Luggage (English)
Some Christmas Stories (English)
Speeches: Literary and Social (English)
Sunday under Three Heads (English)
A Tale of Two Cities (English)
Three Ghost Stories (English)
To Be Read at Dusk (English)
Tom Tiddler's Ground (English)
The Uncommercial Traveller (English)
The Wreck of the Golden Mary (English)

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821–1881

Notes from the Underground (English)

Douglass, Frederick, 1817–1895

Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction (English)

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859–1930

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans (English)
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box (English)
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (English)
The Adventure of the Dying Detective (English)
The Adventure of the Red Circle (English)
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (English)
The Adventures of Gerard (English)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (English)
The Captain of the Polestar (English)
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax (English)
His Last Bow (English)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (English)
The Lost World (English)
The New Revelation (English)
The Parasite (English)
The Poison Belt (English)
Round the Red Lamp (English)
The Sign of the Four (English)
Sir Nigel (English)
Songs of Action (English)
The Stark Munro Letters (English)
A Study in Scarlet (English)
Tales of Terror and Mystery (English)
Through the Magic Door (English)
The Vital Message (English)

Eliot, George, 1819–1880

Adam Bede (English)
Brother Jacob (English)
Daniel Deronda (English)
The Lifted Veil (English)
Middlemarch (English)
The Mill on the Floss (English)
Silas Marner (English)

Erickson,

Joel A.

Autumn Anthem

(English)

Project Gutenberg Fanfare (English)

Evans, Mary Anne
See: Eliot, George, 1819–1880

Girard, Gilbert

Daybreak at Calamity Farm (English)

Grey, Zane, 1872–1939

Riders of the Purple Sage (English)

Hardy, Thomas, 1840–1928

A Changed Man and Other Tales (English)
Desperate Remedies (English)
The Dynasts (English)
Far from the Madding Crowd (English)
A Group of Noble Dames (English)
The Hand of Ethelberta (English)
Interlopers at the Knap (English)
Jude the Obscure (English)
A Laodicean (English)
Late Lyrics and Earlier (English)
Life's Little Ironies etc. (English)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (English)
Moments of Vision (English)
A Pair of Blue Eyes (English)
Poems of the Past and the Present (English)
Return of the Native (English)
Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid (English)
Satires of Circumstance etc. (English)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, a Pure Woman (English)
Time's Laughingstocks etc. (English)
The Trumpet-Major (English)
Two on a Tower (English)
Under the Greenwood Tree (English)
The Well-Beloved (English)
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (English)
The Woodlander (English)

Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:29:40 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <(Address removed)>
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To: NetGold <(Address removed)>
Subject: [NetGold] MEDICAL: DISEASES: AIDS HIV ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY :
MEDICAL: PERIODICALS: [MEDREF-L] Detailed articles about HIV/AIDS
treatments etc

Thanks to Soundara Rajan N.S <(Address removed)> for posting this very valuable periodical resource about AIDS to the MEDREF-L discussion group.

MEDICAL: DISEASES: AIDS HIV ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY : MEDICAL: PERIODICALS: [MEDREF-L] Detailed articles about HIV/AIDS treatments etc

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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 06:44:34 +0530
From: Soundara Rajan N.S <(Address removed)>
To: (Address removed)
Subject: [MEDREF-L] Detailed articles about HIV/AIDS treatments etc

Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) Perspective Newsletter

The STEP Perspective, offers detailed articles about HIV/AIDS treatments,clinical trial results, conference reviews, and interesting individual perspectives on living with HIV.

Published three to four times per year, this journal is distributed to Seattle-area public venues, clinics and community organizations.

Seattle Treatment Education Project is also available by mail and online.

Online access is free at http://www.thebody.com/step/stepix.html

Publisher: The Body

E-mail: (Address removed)

Date: 06 Feb 2004

Source: News of New Electronic Journals – (Address removed)

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Posted by N.S. Soundara Rajan, Mysore, India
Freelance IT journalist,
Columnist "Deccan Herald",
leading English Newsdaily,
published from Bangalore, India

Knowledge networker

...connecting people to people and people to knowledge

=========================================

I thought that it might be useful to add this note about the time period that this journal is published and available on the internet:

STEP Ezine: 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000
STEP Perspective Newsletters: 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995
STEP Conference Coverage
Other Articles from STEP

By the way, for any not familiar with the term, Ezine is a shortened word for the phrase "Electronic Magazine".

Table of Contents of the most recent issue posted at this time:

STEP Ezine
From Seattle Treatment Education Project
Vol. 1, Issue 53 December 30, 2003

Contents

Novel Agents Show Promise as Anti-HIV Compounds
By Megan Rauscher

What Are MRSA and VRE?
Edited by the STEP Staff

Soap and Water: A Weapon Against HIV?
Edited by Janice Price

More on Oral Sex and the Risk of HIV Transmission
By G. Sonia Nagy, M.D.

Special Proteins Provide Possible Explanation Why Oral Transmission of HIV Is Uncommon
By Janice Price

New AIDS Clinical Trials Unit Study Opens

Trials at Swedish Medical Center

What's New at Lifelong AIDS Alliance?

Sincerely,
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Temple University
(215) 204 – 4584
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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:50:12 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: [NetGold] MEDICAL: PERIODICALS : MEDICAL: SURGERY: Surgeon

MEDICAL: PERIODICALS : MEDICAL: SURGERY: [MEDREF-L] Surgeon

Thanks to Soundara Rajan N.S <(Address removed)> for posting about this medical journal that provides full text online articles published by this medical journal from December 1997 until the present time.

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:56:23 +0530
From: Soundara Rajan N.S <(Address removed)>

Surgeon

The Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh merged with the Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons to launch The Surgeon in February 2003.

The Surgeon is published bimonthly, for the Members & Fellows of each College and the worldwide surgical community. It publishes articles
from all specialties and aims to educate, entertain, give insight into new surgical techniques and technology, and provide a forum for debate and discussion.

Online access is free at http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/

Editor: Miss J. Clarke
Publisher: Published by The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Date: 04 Feb 2004

Source: News of New Electronic Journals

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Posted by N.S. Soundara Rajan, Mysore, India
Freelance IT journalist,

Columnist "Deccan Herald", leading English Newsdaily, published from Bangalore, India Knowledge networker

...connecting people to people and people to knowledge

=========================================

Contents of the December 2003 issue of the journal:

The Surgeon
Journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland December 2003 Volume 01 Number 6 <http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/journal/svol1%5F6/>

CLINICAL REVIEW
Kidney transplantation from non heart-beating donors
N.R. Brook and M.L. Nicholson

EDUCATION SECTION
Arthroscopic meniscal repair
M.C. Forster and A.S. Aster

Selecting the best from the rest
C. Bulstrode and V. Hunt

How I do it: Primary total hip replacement
G. Bannister

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Non-restorative surgery for rectal cancer: Indications in 2003
T.J. O'Kelly and J.O. Jansen

An assessment of surgeons' abilities to site colostomies accurately
A. MacDonald, D. Chung, S. Fell and I. Pickford

AUDIT SECTION
An audit of the implementation of guidelines in relation to the prevention of dental caries
J. Foley

Book Reviews

Letters to the Editor

Contents of THE Surgeon Journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland Volume 1

List of referees who reviewed for THE Surgeon in 2003

Visit the Surgeon's Website at http://www.rcsed.ac.uk

Royal College of Surgeons
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/content/

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 – 4584
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:52:33 -0400
From: Judy Decker <(Address removed)>
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To: Net Gold <(Address removed)>
Subject: [Net-Gold] African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art
Collection

Dear Net Gold Members,

This site was listed in Scout Report.

16. African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/africanvision/
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/africanvision/index2.html

....Paul and Ruth Tishman began collecting African art
in 1959, and sold their collection to the Walt Disney Company in 1984. In 2005, Disney gave the collection of 525 works to the National Museum of African Art at Smithsonian Institution, where it is now on display. At the Web site, viewers can choose to "Follow the Art" which means visitors can see the works arranged on a time line, from the 1490s to 2007. On this timeline users can examine over two dozen masks, zooming in on details and reading short or long captions and look at figural sculptures and ceremonial objects, including an early 20th century wooden bowl with figures carved by Olowe of Ise, a divination board, and a beaded crown. The show closes with a section called "Explore African Art" that provides a set of activities and further readings for families to do at home. [DS]

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994–2007.

http://scout.wisc.edu/

See sections on masks, figurative work and images of power & prestige. You can zoom in on images and see multiple views of some objects.

Regards,

Judy Decker
Incredible Art Department
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/
Incredible Art Resources http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/

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