Monday, 3 December 2007
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Subject: [Net-Gold] RNW: "Religious Freedom in Egypt"
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RNW: "Religious Freedom in Egypt"
Radio Netherlands Worldwide's "The State We're In"
program has a feature on religious freedom in Egypt,
including the problems Baha'is have getting national
ID cards, and problems for individuals converting
from Islam to Christianity.
2 links: the first is good until Dec. 6:
<http://www.thestatewerein.org/>
"This week we look into the problems of religious
identity in Egypt and hear from a Baha'i man whose life
has ground to a halt because he can't get an ID card.
We also hear the story of a man who was born a Muslim
and is currently locked in a court battle in his bid to
be officially recognised as a Christian."
...the second link is permanent:
<http://www.radionetherlands.nl/
thestatewerein/tswiradioprogramme/tswi-prog27>
"In the top part of the programme we look into the right
to religious freedom in Egypt. Certain groups are finding
their daily livesdramatically affected by government
refusal to recognise any religions other than Islam,
Christianity and Judaism. We hear from a Baha'i man who
life has been turned upside down as well as two converts
who paid heavily for their choices."
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:09:53 -0000
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Subject: [Net-Gold] A few from Earl
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UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT:
Idaho Senator Denies New Sex Allegations <http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/02/craig.sex.allegations/>
Idaho Senator Denies New Sex Allegations
Allegations published in Boise-based Idaho Statesman newspaper
Statesman said it had no physical evidence to back up its reporting
Craig pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge in August
Guilty plea came two months after his arrest in a sex sting in an airport men's room
CNN Politics
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Embattled Idaho Sen. Larry Craig emphatically denied new allegations of homosexual encounters published in his home state's largest newspaper Sunday, calling the statements of four new accusers "completely false."
The Boise-based Idaho Statesman identified four men who have gone public with claims they either had sex with the veteran senator or that he made sexual advances toward them in incidents dating back to the 1980s.
The men describe their encounters with Craig, R-Idaho, in detail. But the Statesman said it had no physical evidence to back up its reporting and described the claims as "he-said, he-said allegations."
"Like its previous coverage, these latest allegations are completely false and have no basis in reality," Craig said in a statement issued by his office. "In fact, the paper itself states that these baseless accusations contain no definitive evidence, yet they still decided to print them anyway."
Craig pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge in August, two months after his arrest in a sex sting at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. He announced plans to resign after his arrest became public, and has called the guilty plea a mistake.
After announcing plans to resign, Craig decided to remain in office to defend his conduct before the Senate Ethics Committee and has asked Minnesota courts to let him withdraw his plea. But he said he will not seek a new term in 2008.
"Despite the fact the Idaho Statesman has decided to pursue its own agenda and print these falsehoods without any facts to back them up, I won't let this paper's attempt to malign my name stop me from continuing my work to serve the people of Idaho," he said.
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SPORTS: FOOTBALL: PROFESSIONAL : CRIMINAL JUSTICE: CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE: Sean Taylor
SPORTS: FOOTBALL: PROFESSIONAL :
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE:
Sean Taylor
Town Tries to Fathom Insanity of Taylor Death
By Jon Saraceno
USA Today
<http://www.usatoday.com/sports/
columnist/saraceno/2007–12–02-Taylor_N.htm>
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MIAMI The expressions on the sweet little faces of those boys, that's what I cannot wash away. As I mingled with the congregation outside the Second Baptist Church, it seemed most of the young had looks framed in puzzlement and, yes, with a sort of restrained fear.
They were young African-Americans trying to sort out the horrors of what they've been told, what they've heard, what they've seen, even as the images of the accused in orange jail jumpsuits began spilling out through various media ports. How to understand the madness of it all, that one of their own, Sean Taylor, was dead at age 24.
Sunday, I saw one young boy, nose pressed against glass in the back seat of a car, dressed smartly in a blue and yellow argyle sweater. Maybe he was daydreaming perhaps about those free doughnuts after the sunrise sermon but he looked cheerless to me.
There were dozens of young people, but I heard no laughter, no squeals of joy. How could there be? Five days after Taylor's slaying, the real tragedy remains not so much what he leaves behind but what lies ahead for African-Americans everywhere namely more heartbreak to overcome, more bodies to bury. And, yes, more murders of young African-Americans and the incarcerations of their "brothers."
Last year, 14,990 people were murdered in the USA, according to a crime report filed by the Department of Justice and the FBI. The data revealed that nearly 50% were African-Americans, even though that group accounts for only 12% of the U.S. population. An equally grim statistic: Of those African-Americans who were the victims of homicide, more than one out of every three were ages 13–24.
A common denominator in the black genocide is absentee fathers.
"Anytime the man abandons his household, we're going to have problems," said Gregory Clark, a church minister. "Boys have to have an early foundation of who they are and what's expected of them. When they don't have that, they become destructive. No one wins."
Fans in Fla., Md., mourn as Taylor suspects wait
USA Today
<http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/
nfl/2007–12–02-taylor-case_N.htm>
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MIAMI Mourners in Miami waited in line a block long Sunday to pay respects to slain Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor, as his family prepared for Monday's funeral. Football fans in Maryland waived towels with Taylor's No. 21 emblazoned on them. And four suspects sat in Lee County Jail waiting to be taken to Miami to answer to charges that they killed him.
Jason Scott Mitchell, 19, was the last of the four suspects to be charged Sunday with burglary, home-invasion robbery and first-degree murder while in commission of a serious felony.
Dressed in a bright orange jumpsuit, Mitchell made his first court appearance via video conference from the jail before Judge Hugh Starnes.
Mitchell's Fort Myers attorney, Sawyer Smith, said his client understands the severity of the situation.
"He is scared and he is exhausted," Smith said, adding that his client admitted to participating in an armed robbery.
Mitchell, Charles Wardlow, 18, Venjah Hunte, 20, and Eric Rivera, Jr., 17, were awaiting transport Sunday to Miami where they will appear in court again.
Mitchell and Wardlow had connections to Taylor, according to earlier reports. Mitchell mowed Taylor's lawn and did other chores at the house, Mitchell's twin brother, Scottie, said. Taylor's sister, Sasha Johnson, dates Wardlow's cousin and Mitchell recently attended a birthday party for her.
Reached on Sunday, Scottie Mitchell refused to comment.
Robbery, not murder
Miami-Dade police said the four suspects went to Taylor's home in an affluent Miami suburb Nov. 26 with intentions of burglary. They didn't expect anyone to be there. But Taylor was home recuperating from a knee injury.
As Taylor approached the intruders with a machete, one suspect reportedly shot him in the leg. He died early Tuesday.
A sudden death: Let us pause, not rush to judgment about Sean Taylor December 2, 2007
BY MITCH ALBOM
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
Detroit Free Press
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=/20071202/COL01/712020655/1081>
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I didn't know Sean Taylor. I can't tell you why he died. I also can't tell you what kind of man he was. And neither can most of us in the news media.
But that didn't stop us from trying.
Taylor, a 24-year-old Washington Redskins defensive back, was killed last week, shot by an intruder in his home. On Saturday, four men were charged with unpremeditated murder. There were confessions. That, we know.
We also know this: Taylor had, at times, run with dangerous people, had an armed assault charge on his record and kept a machete by his bed.
And he rarely spoke to reporters.
So it was interesting to watch so many quickly canonize him as a man who was "turning his life around." Countless writers and broadcasters repeated this claim in the immediate hours after his death, often citing a 1-year-old daughter as his enlightenment.
One ESPN panelist said, "He had a family, wife, small child and from all appearances he appeared to be turning his life around." One Sporting News columnist wrote, "Becoming a parent had apparently given Taylor a new purpose and helped him mature."
One Washington Post writer said of Taylor: "He once was lost, but now was found."
A time to pass judgment
Now maybe some of these people, at best, spent a moment with a microphone or notepad in front of Taylor. I doubt many knew him. I doubt they ever went to his Miami home. Ate a meal with him. Or saw the machete in his bedroom.
So how could they know where his life was? Maybe Taylor had indeed gone from sinner to saint. But at the time, the story was so fresh, any scenario was possible, and such declarations ran the risk of conflicting with other facts: Did Taylor know the people who killed him? Were they -- as a childhood friend suggested -- out to get him? Taylor was the fourth current or former University of Miami football player slain in 15 years. Maybe that mattered? Maybe it didn't?
But if this world has taught us anything about when sports mix with crime, it is to hold our tongues. Wait and see. Do not rush into tragic prose, idealized caricatures or familiar stereotypes -- especially using comments from upset friends or relatives as facts. When the Duke lacrosse case broke, the quick consensus was that spoiled white kids raped a black single mother. It was a lie. When Len Bias died, there were instant experts lamenting his overworked heart -- until we discovered cocaine killed him.
The Professional Athlete as Target: 'Am I Next?'
Athletes' High Profiles Make for Easy Crime Targets
ABC News
By WAYNE DREHS
Nov. 30, 2007
<http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/story?id=3940887&page=1>
Adewale Ogunleye was tired of running. It was time to meet his fate.
A few minutes earlier, the Chicago Bears defensive end had pulled his Bentley out of the parking lot of a Miami hot spot and noticed he was being followed.
Every time he turned, the car behind him turned. Every time he sped up, it sped up. It was a few minutes after 3 a.m., an up-to-no-good hour that did nothing to ease the nerves of the 6-foot-4, 260-pound Pro Bowler. So he tried everything he could think of to shake his pursuers.
"I was doing illegal things -- speeding, running red lights, running stop signs, doing everything to get away," Ogunleye said. "But they just wouldn't leave me alone."
So he gave up. He stopped his Bentley, rolled down the window and nervously prepared for the worst. But before he could say a word, the other car pulled up and two guys started talking. Turns out they were big fans. Had their own band. And wanted to give Ogunleye a CD so he could listen to it and e-mail them his thoughts.
All those nerves -- the sweaty palms, the racing heartbeat, the dilated pupils -- were for a CD.
"And in the back of my mind, I was thinking, 'Somebody is trying to rob me or kill me,'" Ogunleye said of that night a few years ago. "It still scares me. What if somebody would have had a gun? What if that would have been some crazy person chasing me down? It's scary.
Redskins Draining Week Ends in Emotional Defeat
By DAVE CALDWELL
Published: December 3, 2007
New York Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/sports/football/03redskins.html>
LANDOVER, Md., Dec. 2 After a late field goal sent the Washington Redskins to another loss Sunday, cornerback Fred Smoot lay face down on the sodden turf for long enough that his teammates hovered over him, wondering if he was injured.
Smoot was fine, physically. A 17–16 loss to the Buffalo Bills, sealed when Buffalos Rian Lindell kicked his fifth field goal of the game with four seconds to play, was devastating emotionally for Smoot and every other member of the Redskins.
Asked later what he was thinking as he lay still on the field, Smoot said softly: That I let my man down. We were so close, and I let my man down.
Smoot was referring to Sean Taylor, the 24-year-old Pro Bowl free safety who died Tuesday after he was shot during a suspected burglary attempt at his home in suburban Miami. Taylor was revered by his teammates for his intensity and ferocity.
Several times early in Sundays game, Smoot said he looked back at the middle of the field, where Taylor would have been playing, and, tears welling in his eyes, realized that Taylor was gone.
To honour slain Taylor, Redskins use 10 men on first Bills play
3 hours ago
Canadian Press
<http://canadianpress.google.com/article/
ALeqM5hpDGZ62N3uVMxk36OULZ_6YYypXA>
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LANDOVER, Md. – The message was perfectly clear: Sean Taylor is gone forever, but he is not forgotten.
For all of the No. 21 jerseys, twirling white towels and handwritten signs in the stands Sunday, for all of the red-and-yellow flowers and burning candles at a makeshift memorial outside the stadium, for all of the pre-game tributes to the Pro Bowl safety, the most stark reminder of Taylor's plight came when the Washington Redskins lined up on defence for the first time since he was killed.
Instead of 11 Redskins on the field, as rules allow, there were 10.
When the visiting Buffalo Bills prepared to run their first play on offence midway through the opening quarter, the man who replaced Taylor in Washington's lineup, Reed Doughty, stood near coaches on the sideline.
"It was important for the team to know that Sean was with us that one last time on the field," Doughty said. "He'll always be with us, but that was special."
After watching while Bills running back Fred Jackson gained 22 yards, Doughty entered for the next play – and made the tackle.
Redskins coach Joe Gibbs wasn't aware ahead of time that players were going to honour Taylor that way; assistant coach Gregg Williams said his defensive coaches and unit decided Saturday night to do it.
"We were going to let him ride with us one more time," said Williams, who has described Taylor as being like a son to him.
Moving Taylor tributes render outcome almost meaningless
By Mike Sando
ESPN.com
(Archive)
<http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/
story?columnist=sando_mike&id=3138481>
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LANDOVER, Md. -- The eye saw only 10 defenders on the field when the Washington Redskins' defense lined up for the first time since Sean Taylor's shooting death.
The heart knew there were 11.
The heart never felt Taylor's presence more strongly.
No. 21 was at FedEx Field in spirit, if not in uniform.
"Look around," public-address announcer Mark Kessler told the 85,831 fans before kickoff. "See for yourself."
The Redskins honored their fallen safety with dignity before and after Joe Gibbs' coaching error helped Buffalo emerge with a 17–16 victory. Gibbs violated the rule preventing teams from calling consecutive timeouts to ice the opposing kicker, moving Buffalo's game-winning attempt 15 yards closer.
Rian Lindell's 36-yarder damaged the Redskins' playoff chances, sure, but no one with an ounce of perspective will remember Dec. 2, 2007, as the day Washington's record slipped to 5–7.
Gibbs' gaffe qualifies as a topic for another day, but not this one. Not with more than 300 team employees heading to South Florida for a funeral Tuesday.
"I am thoroughly disappointed that we lost a game," guard Pete Kendall said, "but tomorrow we have to go about the business of burying a teammate and a friend, and that is obviously light-years worse."
Before the Redskins took the field on Sunday, they reflected on their fallen teammate.
Losing the game prevented the Redskins from celebrating a victory they never intended to celebrate, anyway. Honoring a fallen teammate should never be contingent on a final score.
"Even if we had won the game," tackle Chris Samuels said, "it wasn't going to bring Sean back. We wanted to go out there and play as hard as we could for Sean because I feel like he would have laid it on the line for us. I felt like we played hard."
Mourning the Death of a Teammate Is A Difficult Process for Players and Coaches
By Barry Svrluga
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 2, 2007; Page D01
Washington Post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/
2007/12/01/AR2007120101617.html?hpid=topnews>
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In the 20 minutes before the Washington Redskins kick off against the Buffalo Bills today at FedEx Field -- a normally antiseptic arena that will be part church, part funeral parlor, part therapist's couch to about 90,000 people -- a tribute to Sean Taylor, the 24-year-old star safety who was slain in his Miami home early last week, will play on the videoboard.
What happens over those four minutes might stick with the Redskins' fans, players, coaches and staff forever. "You can't forget the moment, because it's so emotional," said Bobby Murcer, who 28 years ago took to left field at Yankee Stadium in the hours after he and his teammates returned from the funeral of Thurman Munson, the Yankees catcher and captain.
When each Redskin emerges from the locker room, he will bear a sticker of Taylor's No. 21 on his helmet, a patch with the No. 21 on his jersey, the same number that will be affixed to towels handed to fans as they enter the stadium. There will be a moment of silence at FedEx and league-wide. The idea of football-as-catharsis will take over.
"It's a very moving experience," Murcer said last week. "That next game, we got to remember him as an individual and as a team. But it's not only us that's hurting. It's the fans. It's as much for them as it is for you as an individual. It reminds you that the fans who follow the team, it's as big a part of their lives as it is for you."
The situation in which the Redskins and their fans find themselves today is hardly unprecedented. Yet those who have been through it -- losing a teammate in midseason, be it to accident or violence or their own health problems -- said last week that there is little way to predict what happens next. Teams have recovered from tragedy to reach the playoffs, to win championships. Others have foundered. Either way, beginning today, the backdrop of Taylor's death will be there for the Redskins. They have five regular season games to play, none with Taylor.
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Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After Report
Climate Talks Take on Added Urgency After Report
By PETER GELLING and ANDREW C. REVKIN
Published: December 3, 2007
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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 2 Thousands of government officials, industry lobbyists, environmental campaigners and observers are arriving on the Indonesian island of Bali for two weeks of talks starting Monday that are aimed at breathing new life into the troubled 15-year-old global climate treaty.
A heightened sense of urgency surrounds the meeting in light of a report issued last month by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which detailed the potentially devastating effects of global warming in the panels strongest language yet.
But few participants expect this round of talks to produce significant breakthroughs. At most, they say, it will result in new commitments to negotiate to update the original treaty by the end of 2009.
The bulk of attention will be on the future, said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the organization administering the treaty. My hope is that we can formally launch negotiations and form an agenda for those negotiations that will lead to a long-term policy response to climate change.
The original treaty, signed by almost all nations in 1992, set voluntary goals for curbing the emission of greenhouse gases, which mostly come from burning fossil fuels and forests, and which have been linked by scientists to global warming. But few of those goals have been met.
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INTERNET: WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL NETWORKING :
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Facebook's Beacon More Intrusive Than Previously Thought
Facebook's Beacon More Intrusive Than Previously Thought
A Computer Associates security researcher says that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than expected in tracking people's Web activities.
Juan Carlos Perez
Friday, November 30, 2007 4:10 PM PST
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A Computer Associates security researcher is sounding the alarm that Facebook's controversial Beacon online ad system goes much further than anyone has imagined in tracking people's Web activities outside the popular social networking site.
Beacon will report back to Facebook on members' activities on third-party sites that participate in Beacon even if the users are logged off from Facebook and have declined having their activities broadcast to their Facebook friends.
That's the finding published on Friday by Stefan Berteau, senior research engineer at CA's Threat Research Group in a note summarizing tests he conducted.
Of particular concern is that users aren't informed that data on their activities at these sites is flowing back to Facebook, nor given the option to block that information from being transmitted, Berteau said in an interview.
"It can happen completely without their knowledge, unless they are examining their network traffic at a very low level," Berteau said.
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 01:55:44 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Am Law 200 Managing Partners Issue Fog Advisory for 2008
Am Law 200 Managing Partners Issue Fog Advisory for 2008
David Bario, The American Lawyer, 12–03–2007
Each fall, when this magazine surveys the leaders of The Am Law 200 about the state of their firms, the responses are awash in sunny optimism -- at least, they have been until now. This year, for the first time since we began polling them in 2003, a substantial number of firm leaders admit to being uneasy about the future. More than a quarter reported that they were uncertain about their firm's prospects next year, and a few said they felt downright pessimistic. What's going on?
Follow-up interviews with more than a dozen survey respondents from all segments of The Am Law 200 offered some clues. Worries about the current state of the U.S. economy topped the list of concerns. Leaders of transactional firms say they remain unsure of how deeply the credit meltdown will penetrate the M&A and financial markets. Even managing partners who expect their firms to stay busy are hedging their bets, building up bankruptcy and restructuring practices ahead of a potentially long-lasting economic downturn. "People just have a general sense that the pace of activity on the transaction side of the practice is going to crest," says Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe chair and CEO Ralph Baxter Jr. —although he adds that he is not among the pessimists.
Litigation has traditionally helped many firms weather economic storms, but managing partners at litigation-heavy firms say they're looking over their shoulders, too. Several mentioned an October Fulbright & Jaworski survey of in-house lawyers showing a drop-off in new litigation,, and some wondered whether a faltering economy could make clients tighten their purse strings. They also worry about balancing partner expectations with the pressures of rising associate salaries and client demand for discounts. "My partners are going to expect a very good 2008 regardless of what's happening outside the four walls of this law firm," says Shook, Hardy & Bacon chair John Murphy.
From the survey and the interviews, the overall message is clear. For the first time in five years, growth is not a given. "There are lots of spots in The Am Law 200 where firms are in peril," says Keith Wetmore, chairman of Morrison & Foerster (though he is quick to add that MoFo is not one of them). "What's on the eight ball when you turn it over? I think it says: 'The future is cloudy.'"
Some of the anxiety about the future -- 32 of 123 firm leaders said they were "uncertain" and three said they were "pessimistic" -- is a factor of the survey's timing. Answers to our survey came back to us in September and October, in the midst of the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and plummeting faith in the value of securitized debt. Firms whose profits depend, directly or indirectly, on the continued strength of the corporate credit market were still nervously judging the extent of the damage.
But the credit crunch is only part of the story, several managing partners say. The current market worries are exacerbating a more general sense that firms' resources have already been stretched to the limit. As the chair of one firm put it: "We can't beat the donkeys any harder." A six-year economic boom created an intense struggle for talent, caused associate salaries to skyrocket and raised profitability expectations ever higher. If there's a real downturn, firms accustomed to revving their engines harder and harder may need to learn to shift into lower gear. Presiding over a boom is one thing. Guiding a firm through rough times is another.
Numbers from the survey provide a window into firm leaders' troubled minds. Just 58 percent of them expect the economy to grow at all in 2008, compared with 81 percent last year. Roughly 10 percent expect the economy to decline.
Also, for the first time in five years, the majority of managing partners we polled believe the flow of deals will stay flat or decrease. Fewer than a quarter thought so last year, and only 5 percent in 2003. The past few years saw a climate of low interest rates, easy credit and a strong stock market that pumped up the private equity and mergers markets. Now that environment is changing. "I've been around long enough to know that kind of perfect storm of variables can't last forever," says Cravath, Swaine & Moore presiding partner Evan Chesler, who remains optimistic about his own firm. "That's just a fact of life."
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1196361722137&pos=ataglance>
The entire article can be read at the above URL.
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Dear readers,
In this issue we will be reviewing a
fantastic mapping tool called the
"World Freedom Atlas". Its both very
beautiful and wonderfully useful. We
will be interviewing its creator,
Zachary, Johnson, and you will be amazed
to learn that he put it together with
practically no money, but lots of
hard work.
We will also be having a review of some
of the best posts from our bloggers
community, carefully selected by
Helene Hedberg, which we are sure you
will enjoy.
As many of you have realized, this is
not a regular newsletter, we publish
only when we have something to say.
We make no promises, and you may not
hear from us for months! So we hope
you will enjoy this issue and read it
attentively, because even we don't know
when you will get the next one!
Some announcements to start:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: TRAINING AND EDUCATION;
The University of Sydney now has an
interdisciplinary MA in Human Rights:
<http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/
ssp/postgraduate/?part=overview&id=dc055>
We asked the programme's director,
Dr. Danielle Celermajer, what is
special about it. She replies:
"At Sydney, we�ve taken on board the
fact that human rights is not just a
legal discourse, and not just a
political discourse, but a topic that
a number of disciplines have something
important to say about. In practical
terms, that means that our courses are
taught across 6 faculties, taking
into account legal, philosophical,
sociological, environmental, cultural
and economic perspectives, and making
the links between human rights and
other critical areas of concern like
bio-ethics and global warming. What
we have in mind in this degree is not
just conveying the body of existing
knowledge, but equipping students to
become people who can take human
rights into new areas and develop the
field; they will be the leaders of
the future.
We�ve also included an internship
option so students can actually go out
and be members of working human rights
organizations in Australia and in
the Asian region and develop their
practice skills, which will be critical
to their future career opportunities."
Of course, we could also mention that
Sydney is a very nice place to live
and study!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: TOOLS AND RESOURCES
ILO: New resource guide on disability
This guide is a starting point for
anyone beginning research on
disability. It provides links to
key ILO publications on the topic,
ILO labour standards and data, as
well as to other resources around
the world. This guide was produced
in cooperation with the ILO's
Skills andEmployability Department.
<http://www.ilo.org/public/english/support/
lib/resource/subject/disability.htm>
IPIECA: Human Rights Training Toolkit
for the Oil and Gas Industry Jenny
Owens, project manager for social
responsibility at IPIECA, wrote to
tell us about this very toolkit.
It destined to help managers in the oil
sector to make human rights-sensitive
decisions. We were impressed by the
quality of the pedagogy. The trainer
manual makes a very effective use of
scenarios and dilemmes for discussion.
These scenarios make it possible to
jump straight into the most thorny
issues: how to avoid complicity with
a government with a bad human rights
records, how to manage relations with
local communities. Available in English
and French.
<http://www.ipieca.org/activities/
social/social_hr.php#hftt>
BEST OF THE BLOGS
A review of the most interesting
posts from our comminity of 50+ human
rights blogs, by community animator
Helene Hedberg:
Hello fellow friends and Human Rights
bloggers! So I�ve been checking out
some blogs and here is what�s new
from some of them:
Intercontinental Cry
Is dedicated to informing people about
the many historical, ongoing, and
emerging problems of indiegnous peoples
throughout the world. Its recent
post from the 26th of November includes
a report on the ousting of Australia�s
racist government. Congratulating the
voters for doing a good job, voting
against Aboriginal Affairs Minister
Mal Brough and Prime Minister
John Howard, it also includes some
doubts about whether or not the new
government will stop the intervention
of Indigenous people in the northern
territory. With hope though it is
expressed that the new government will
possibly sign the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Check out
the blog, even though it�s run by just
one person it is frequently updated,
very well elaborated and provides access
to a great deal of valuable information,
links, videos etc.
<http://intercontinentalcry.org>
Rightsbase
Another interesting blog run by
Olivia Ball. Her intention is to address
just about any topic, but from a
human rights perspective. Something we
could all take into account. Her post
from the 10th of November looks into
how �Blix envisages peace through
globalization�. Here she writes about
that Hans Blix, foremost known as the
weapon inspector of Iraq prior to
the current war, recently was awarded
the Sydney Peace Prize. Including an
excerpt from his acceptance speech,
Blix had concluded like Dag
Hammarskj�l a couple of years
earlier; �The UN will not take us to
heaven, but it might help us to avoid
hell�. The blog contains some useful links
and literature suggestions. Pay it a visit.
The UUSC Hotwire
Is a human rights weblog of the
unitarian universalist service committee.
A nonsectarian organization that
advances human rights and social justice
in the United States and around the
world. Their latest post from the 24th
of November deals with the situation
where Muslim women are being enforced
to wear headscarves. The criticism put
forward is done with realization
of- and respect for the Muslim women
wearing it as a sign of religious
devotion, which they have freely chosen.
What is put forward here by Lauri
Brunner, as she tells us about her
visit to Aceh, is the danger of the
scarves becoming a �fabric of oppression�
in Indonesia as it has in Pakistan when
the women are in risk of getting
detention or caning for not wearing it.
Check out the blog to read more on
interesting and important topics.
<http://www.uusc.org/blog/hotwire.html>
Also, I�ve just updated my blog with
some feedback on the human rights
event I recently attended:
<http://undialogue.blogspot.com>
That�s it for now! Keep up the good work!
And please let me know if there
is a blog to add to the community:
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MAIN FEATURE: HUMAN RIGHTS MAPS
We were really amazed by the World
Freedom Atlas you have put together.
Its really useful, contains a host
of data, and is also very beautifully
executed.
We recommend to take some minutes to
explore it, before reading further:
<http://www.freedom.indiemaps.com>
There is a wide range of data you
can visualize, from Freedom House's
indicators on civil and political
rights, to the Human Development Index,
to Transparency International's
corruption data, to Reporters with out
Borders' Press Freedom Index.
What is even more impressive is that
it was made by a student, completed
over a summer as part of a university
project!
For this course:
<http://www.geography.wisc.edu/~harrower/Geog575/>
We caught up with the creator of
this wonderful atlas, Zachary Johnson,
for an email interview:
Editor: How is this website meant
to be used? What kind of information
does it provide?
Zachary: I initially aimed the World
Freedom Atlas at scholars and NGO/IGO
workers who already work with the
datasets I've included. I hope people
use it to explore the data, ask
questions, and do some initial analysis.
I really don't expect the atlas to
necessarily answer questions -- that's
not what geovisualization is all about.
Rather, I hope it raises issues and
awareness and compels users to further
explore the complex issues of
freedom, democracy, and human rights.
The data are of course available
online, and many of the original data
providers (Freedom House, Transparency
International, etc.) even provide
some maps on their websites.
As I cartographer, though, I was
generally dissatisfied with these maps.
Plus, I wanted them to be available all
in one place, rather that dispersed across
cyberspace.
Editor: How is it done, technically?
How do you keep it up to date? Was it
difficult to find all the datasets and
put them together? How long did it
take you?
Zachary: I really improved my
programming skills during the 6 months
I worked on the World Freedom Atlas.
It was done in Flash 8 using its
programming language Actionscript 2.
The data are stored in a single
table in a mySQL database and I use
AMFPHP (a group of classes written in
the PHP programming language) and some
of my own PHP scripts to go
back-and-forth between the Flash app
and the database (when the user
requests a specific variable to be mapped).
Right now the database and application
are set up quite flexibly. So if I
want to add a new variable or update
an existing one, it only takes a few
steps and the application will update
automatically. Unfortunately I
haven't had much time lately to do
even these few steps, so there may be
a few datasets in need of updating.
A couple months into the production of
the atlas I discovered the Quality of
Governance Institute, a Swedish
organization affiliated w ith G�teborg
University. They release and
constantly update a huge dataset with
time series data going back to 1946.
I chose to load their entire dataset
into my application, though I only
go back as far as 1990. I definitely
owe a lot to the QoG for collecting
and disseminating this dataset.
That said, it still took a lot of work
to get it into a form usable by Flash,
and to import such a huge file into a
mySQL table.
I can't even estimate how long it took
me to complete. This has been my
baby for the past 6 months, and there
have been many nights working past
3am on it. Definitely over a hundred
hours, and quite possibly over 200.
I've also been working on many other
projects, taking classes, and (sort
of) working on my thesis at the same
time, so the atlas has had to take a
backseat at some times.
Editor: Tell us a bit about yourself,
and why you did this. What kind of
financing did you have?
Zachary: This began as a class project
for an interactive mapping course
at the University of Wisconsin taught
by Professor Mark Harrower.
We produced a very limited version of
the atlas (using only Freedom House
data) and turned it in in May. My
group-mates gladly turned the atlas
over to me and I chose to completely
redesign it and repurpose it as a
more general geovisualization
application for data related to good
governance.
So it was a completely independent
project. There was no financing
whatsoever and I haven't made a dime
off of it (and don't plan to, though
it will obviously be a very large
portfolio piece for me when I'm
looking for other, paying clients).
Editor: What is your next project?
If you had a million dollars to spend
on a nonprofit idea, what would that be?
Zachary: I'm currently working on a
couple interactive projects, but these
will finish up in December. Those
interested can check out my website,
indiemaps.com. I really want to
continue working on areas related to
human rights, population studies, or
environmental justice. I'm still
looking around for my next project
(though I really should finish up my
Master's thesis sometime...).
If I had a ton of funding to produce
a non-profit application of my
choosing, I would likely create some
type of web-based Flash GIS
application, into which all sorts of
users could easily load in and
explore their own data, be it about
human rights or environmental
degradation. Current GIS software
is quite powerful, but also very
expensive and typically quite hard
to use. A Flash-based GIS could
incorporate very nice interface design
and complete access to anyone with
a web browser.
Editor: What are your favorite blogs, websites?
Zachary: I mostly read blogs related
to programming, cartography, and
information visualization. My current
favorites are tecznotes
<http://mike.teczno.com/notes/>
Smashing Magazine
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/>
and
Information Aesthetics
I am also quite politically active and read
an assortment of political blogs and sites,
both liberal and conservative, every morning
with my coffee. The New York Times website
is currently the leader in journalistic
online mapping, and their site typically
contains one or two new interactive
infographics or maps each week. I should
also plug my blog here
which I plan to keep
active and which should be interesting
to those who create, or are just
interested in, these kinds of social
data visualizations.
MORE HUMAN RIGHTS MAPS....
If you like human rights mapping, here
are some more goodies to explore:
MapleCroft Maps
Already reviewed in a previous issue,
this website provides a number of
world maps. Each map allows you to
visualize a particular human right of
development issue: aid flows, water,
military expendure, malaria, landmine
risk... and many many more:
(also be sure to explore the cartograms
at bottom of this page)
Raoul Wallenberg Institute: Human Rights
Theme Maps Good to visualize who is
signatory to which treaty.
<http://www.rwi.lu.se/tm/ThemeMaps.html>
Gapminder
Hans Rosling and his team at
Karolinska are experts at making
statistical data talk in very
evocative ways. Many of you have
watched his Ted Talk videos:
<http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92>
<http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/140>
Well, an online version of the Gapminder
tool is now hosted by Google, so you can
make similar presentations yourself!
<http://tools.google.com/gapminder/>
iQuango.org:
Mellanrummet graphs
Sam Smith, inspired by Hans Rosling's
Gapminder work, has taken the whole
United Nations Common Database and
parts of the CIA World Factbook and
made it publicly available in Gapminder
style. The interesting thing here
is that the software running it –
called "meinedata" – is freely available
for anyone to use, improve, distribute.
<http://www.iquango.org/mellanrummet/>
European Statistical Laboratory's MDG dashboard
The MDG Dashboard presents the
Millennium Development Goals
indicators in a highly
communicative format. This free
database provides 60 MDG
indicators for ca. 200 countries
and 15 years (1990–2005) based on
original United Nations statistics
(updated in July 2007). Download
the software to play on your
computer:
<http://esl.jrc.it/dc/index.htm>
There are many more dashboards on this
rich website, its a bit of a maze
to navigate (to say the least...)
but you will be surprised what you
find.
We liked the Fragile States Index:
type the name of your country into the
box and see how stable or unstable it is:
<http://esl.jrc.it/dc/fsi_2007/index.htm>
More dashboards:
<http://esl.jrc.it/dc/dbgal_en.htm>
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Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:46:14 -0600
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <(Address removed)>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Med-Legal-Pain-Prison Health Care Articles
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Med-Legal-Pain-Prison Health Care Articles
Inquest rules in prison's favor
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The jurors found prison personnel
provided Johnson adequate medical care,
but recommended the prison make several
upgrades in medical staffing,
training and ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/
tribunereview/news/fayette/
s_540631.html>
'There was a screech and ... just boom!'
Chicago Sun-Times – United States
"Anyone who wasn't hurt was helping
someone who was," said Karen
Succop, a registered nurse aboard the
train who, with a doctor, took ice out
of passenger ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/
676316,CST-NWS-scene01.article>
Shannon Ament-yellowbird: Struggling while traveling
a path out of ...
Duluth News Tribune (Subscription) – Duluth,MN,USA
She remained at the post as an operation technician
-- a job she ranks above a nursing assistant but
below a nurse -- for six years. ...
<http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/
articles/index.cfm?id=55414>
Nurse arrested for stealing drugs
WWBT – Richmond,VA,USA
In Hanover County a nurse is facing felony charges
after allegedly stealing prescription medication
from her workplace. Police say they were given a
tip ...
<http://www.nbc12.com/news/
state/11994526.html>
Florence Stroud former Berkeley health director,
dies at 73
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
A registered nurse, UCSF professor and public health
researcher, Flo – as she was universally known – was
the first African American to serve as health ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/
article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/01/
BAMSTM5DF.DTL>
Two get prison for elder abuse
The Express Times – Easton,PA,USA
By TOM QUIGLEY BELVIDERE | Nina Bohuslawsky tearfully
asked a judge for a lenient sentence Friday after her
attorney said the former nurse only wanted to ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/
nj/index.ssf?/base/news-6/
1196485669155160.xml&coll=2>
Ex-home care exec goes to prison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) –
Milwaukee,WI,USA
Mark Hilgart, 46, bilked the Aurora Visiting Nurse
Association out of at least $587919 – and possibly
more than $700000, according to prosecutors – over ...
<http://www.jsonline.com/story/
index.aspx?id=691933>
Ramsey County adds nursing shift after death
Post-Bulletin – Rochester,MN,USA
Money for the additional medical care at the jail will
come from boarding fees paid by US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement for prisoners placed in the ...
<http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/
templates/localnews_story.asp?a=317234&z=2>
Alaska spending millions annually on inmate health
care
KTUU – Anchorage,AK,USA
... medical costs for prisoners because of an aging
and growing prison population. Last year, it overspent
its $24 million health care budget by $4 million. ...
<http://www.ktuu.com/Global/
story.asp?S=7437693>
implies that CNN thinks Obama's healthcare ad is
'false'... also ...
CNN Political Ticker – USA
What if I believe that Health care is a fear base
system, why should I be obligated to get it? Oh,
I forgot, you want me to fill your lobbyst pockets
so ...
<http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
2007/12/01/obamas-false-
healthcare-ad-draws-fire-from-clinton/>
Mental Health and the Hillary Hostage Situation
Yahoo! News – USA
But the ordeal--which thankfully ended without any
casualties--ought to focus attention on the dire
state of mental health care in this country....
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/
20071201/cm_thenation/15255943>
After the ice, first of two Dem forums in Iowa today
Baltimore Sun – United States
At the progressives' forum, Edwards said he wanted
to create an "infrastructure for success" that
included universal health care and increasing the
minimum ...
<http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/
politics/blog/2007/12/
first_of_two_candidate_forums.html>
Tri-City directors back $778M hospital plan despite
sticker shock
North County Times – Escondido,CA,USA
sterlingreallycares wrote on Nov 30, 2007 2:29 AM:
I really, really CARE about your medical CARE.
But I don't CARE to attend board meetings that
force me to ...
<http://www.nctimes.com/articles/
2007/12/01/news/top_stories/
1_03_3011_29_07.txt>
Mother anguishes over son's jail death
Cherry Hill Courier Post – Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
13 to possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose
and is expected to get six years in prison when he's
sentenced on Jan. 11, Laughlin said. ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/
apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/
NEWS01/712020363/1006>
Hospital to offer nurse residency
Hays Daily News – Hays,KS,USA
By KALEY LYON Beginning in February, Hays Medical
Center will launch a nurse residency program,
which will provide extensive training to newly
hired nurses ...
<http://www.hdnews.net/Story/HMC120207>
Silent strength
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
Though not a deeply religious man, he allowed a
nurse to place a hand on him and pray as he lay
at home in bed. Within moments, he felt a surge
of power and ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/
losgatos/ci_7616190>
Daily News: Nurse Elected to IOM
Nurse.com – Falls Church,VA,USA
Antonia M. Villarruel, RN, phd, FAAN, a professor
at the University of Michigan School of Nursing
in Ann Arbor, has been elected to the nonprofit
Institute ...
<http://include.nurse.com/apps/
pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/
ALL01/71115004/-1/frontpage>
New home coming for injured soldier
Charlotte Observer – Charlotte,NC,USA
The house is about halfway completed; it's closed
in, with Sheetrock on the walls. It's built with
wide doors, hallways and other features to
accommodate ...
<http://www.charlotte.com/union/
story/387683.html>
French gets its heart back
San Luis Obispo Tribune – San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
July 1998: French's pain management program closes
and is investigated by the California attorney
general. The program was the hospital's second
largest ...
<http://www.sanluisobispo.com/
news/local/story/208673.html>
Army charges Iraq vet over self-inflicted gun wound
Seattle Times – United States
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:47:39 -0600
From: "Barbara Acello, RN" <(Address removed)>
Reply-To: (Address removed)
To: (Address removed)
Subject: [Net-Gold] TX & SW Articles
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TX & SW Articles
Brothers benefit from reader kindness
Monitor – McAllen,TX,USA
Today, Gilbert continues to pursue his goal of
becoming a nurse. But Edgar also has had much
academic success -- he said he ranks 46 out of
500 students at ...
<http://www.themonitor.com/news/
gilbert_7006___article.html/
brothers_edgar.html>
A superbug evolves
Comanche County Chronicle – Elgin,OK,USA
If an ear infection lasts longer than a week,
parents should take their children to a doctor
for treatment. Children who have frequent ear
infections may ...
<http://www.comanchecountychronicle.com/
viewarticle.php?id=285>
Expert backs graphic lung cancer pics on
cigarette packs
Inquirer.net – Philippines
A professor at the University of Texas Health
Center, Anzueto and other doctors presented
a study on chronic bronchitis and other
smoking-related illnesses ...
<http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/
breakingnews/
view_article.php?article_id=104246>
San Antonio Express-News, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 2:35 PM PST
State closes San Antonio <b>nursing home</b>
http://www.mysanantonio.com/salife/
health/stories/
MYSA120207.EN.NursingHome.5a1b1627.html
State officials, citing the dire financial straights
of a South Side nursing home, closed the facility on
Saturday and evacuated its patients to other
San Antonio nursing homes.
Girl looks to walk again after accident
Seguin Gazette-Enterprise – Seguin,TX,USA
The nurse told me it would have felt like someone
was pouring boiling water on them," she said.
"They came in and told us pretty bluntly that she
would ...
<http://www.seguingazette.com/
story.lasso?ewcd=80852d16ba6e63a5>
How did Riley's mom end up here?
Houston Chronicle – United States
At the invitation of his mother, Sheryl Sawyers,
a licensed nurse, the two teenage parents began
a life together at Sawyers' home as soon as Riley
was born ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/front/5345103.html>
Profile: Memorial Medical Center's CEO has been in
the business ...
Las Cruces Sun-News – Las Cruces,NM,USA
By Brook Stockberger/ Sun-News Business Editor
LAS CRUCES -- His father was a pharmacist in a
hospital and his mother was a nurse, so it should
come as no ...
<http://www.lcsun-news.com/business/ci_7602933>
Nursing Titles in Health Care
American Chronicle – Beverly Hills,CA,USA
After graduating from Univ of Texas and completing
his MA and phd studies in Sociology at Brown
University, he formed his own desk-top publishing
company. ...
<http://www.americanchronicle.com/
articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=44451>
State closes troubled San Antonio nursing home
Houston Chronicle – United States
"We stayed all night and we bought them stuff so
they could eat," nursing assistant Bobby Rodriguez
said. "Nobody cared about them except for us. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/metropolitan/5345760.html>
Southside Nursing Home Shuts Down
ClickonSA.com – San Antonio,TX,USA
SAN ANTONIO -- A Southside nursing home that avoided
being closed earlier this week was shut down by the
state Saturday. The facility has been unable to pay ...
<http://www.ksat.com/news/14751510/detail.html>
When children fall victim: Why do parents kill?
Beaumont Enterprise – Beaumont,TX,USA
November 2000: Kaylen Garner, 2 months, died of
injuries suffered nine months previously.
His father was sentenced to life in prison for
the crime. ...
<http://www.southeasttexaslive.com/
site/news.cfm?newsid=19076857&BRD=
2287&PAG=461&dept_id=512588&rfi=6>
Going inside
Tulsa World – Tulsa,OK,USA
While a nurse gives a brief lecture on safe sex and
the danger of sharing needles --a lesson that would
sound familiar to any high school graduate...
<http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/
article.aspx?articleID=
071202_238_A1_hrbri57326>
Irony And Ron Paul
Rocktown Weekly – Harrisonburg,VA,USA
The Texas doctor may be candid and outspoken --
in his soft-spoken way -- but he is not exactly
a "hip" candidate. When the magazine GQ wanted
to do a profile ...
<http://www.rocktownweekly.com/
opinion_details.php?AID=
13651&sub=Editorial>
Insurance company ratings irk doctors
The News Journal – Wilmington,DE,USA
... uprisings in states like Washington, Missouri
and Texas. The practice rankles doctors, who say
insurers don't divulge how the ratings are
compiled. ...
<http://www.delawareonline.com/
apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/
BUSINESS/712020320/1003>
Potential Medicare reimbursement cuts worry doctors
Naples Daily News – Naples,FL,USA
Michael Burgess, R-Texas, he said. Burgess is a
physician. "The reality is that the first thing
is we've got to do something to get rid of these
cuts," ...
<http://www.naplesnews.com/news/
2007/dec/02/potential_medicare_
reimbursement_cuts_worry_doctor/
?breaking_news>
San Antonio Express-News,
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 2:25 PM PST
State closes San Antonio nursing home
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/
metro/stories/MYSA120207.EN.
NursingHome.5a1b1627.html>
State officials, citing the dire financial straights
of a South Side nursing home, closed the facility on
Saturday and evacuated its patients to other
San Antonio nursing homes.
Texas hospital may drop illegals' care
GALVESTON, Texas The University of Texas Medical
Branch may stop
offering cancer care to indigent and undocumented
immigrants in order to cut costs. The UTMB set
aside about $12 million in this year's $1.4
billion annual budget to treat indigent cancer
patients, but that isn't enough to meet demand,
said Karen Sexton, vice president and CEO of
hospitals and clinics at the medical branch.
<http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/ap/nation/5345687.html>
Link between tooth infection and hair loss
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32962>
There is a close relationship between infection
outbreaks on teeth and the presence of alopecia
areata or localized alopecia, a type of hair loss
which has an unknown origin.
"Barbara Acello, RN"
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To: (Address removed)
Subject: [Net-Gold] LTC Articles
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LTC Articles
Legalview Launches New Practice Area
Focusing on Nursing Homes ...
PR Web (press release) – Ferndale,WA,USA
Legalview.com has developed a new practice
area to provide information on potential
medical malpractice and negligence that can
occur in nursing homes and ...
<http://www.prweb.com/releases/
2007/12/prweb573526.htm>
The Fresno Bee, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 9:30 AM PST
SoCal nursing home fined $100,000 for
patient's death
<http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/237588.html>
A Riverside County nursing home was fined $100,000
for the death of a
91-year-old woman who was dropped on her head.
The Daily Comet, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 9:30 AM PST
SoCal nursing home fined $100,000 for patient's death
<http://www.dailycomet.com/
article/20071201/APN/712010667>
FONTANA, Calif. A Riverside County nursing home was
fined $100,000 for the death of a 91-year-old woman
who was dropped on her head. Citrus Nursing Center
in Fontana was cited last month for failing to
provide patient safety, according to the California
Department of Health.
Centre Daily Times, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 7:38 AM PST
12 overcome by carbon monoxide at nursing home
<http://www.centredaily.com/news/state/story/276555.html>
A dozen people were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes
at a central Pennsylvania nursing home.
WISC Channel3000.com via Yahoo! News,
Fri, 30 Nov 2007 5:06 PM PST
Residents, Families Speak Out After Nursing
Home Makes Gov. List
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/wisc/
20071201/lo_wisc/14742221>
Residents and families of a local nursing home are
speaking out Friday after the facility was listed
among the worst nursing homes in the nation.
WKRN Nashville, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 7:47 AM PST
Nursing Home Faces Fines, Must Turn Away New Patients
<http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/
news/nursing-home-faces-fines-
must-turn-away-new-patients/130994.htm>
A well known nursing home in Davidson County has to
turn away new patients. | | A state inspection turned
up numerous problems at McKendree Village, ranging
from lack of resident protection to discharges and
transfers. | | The nursing home also faces steep
fines. | | McKendree Village is located at
4347 Lebanon Road in Hermitage. | | In a statement,
McKendree said, �We remain...
KVOA Tucson, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 8:46 AM PST
Lake Havasu nursing home patient had TB, passed it
to others
<http://www.kvoa.com/global/
story.asp?s=7436301>
Associated Press – December 1, 2007 11:44 AM ET
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz.
(AP) – Health officials say a Lake Havasu City nursing
home patient had tuberculosis and passed it on to others
before...
Daily Record, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 8:19 AM PST
Montville board hears plans for nursing home
<http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/
pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20071201/
COMMUNITIES30/712010322>
The Montville zoning board heard details of a proposal
to construct a new nursing home and assisted-living
facility at the site of the abandoned Hilltop Care
Center at a special meeting on Thursday night.
The State Journal-Register, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 3:47 AM PST
Nursing home pays fine
<http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/21040.asp>
A Springfield nursing home for developmentally
disabled adults has paid a $23,000 fine after
state public health officials said the home
failed to prevent a 35-year-old patient from
falling and possibly being beaten and
sexually abused.
FOX 5 Atlanta, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 5:55 AM PST
Ga. Nursing Home Taken Off National "Worst" List
<http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/
pages/News/Detail?contentId=5094768&
version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=
TSTY&pageId=3.2.1>
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal agency said Friday that
a Georgia nursing home listed among the 54 worst
in the nation should not have been included.
WFMJ Youngstown, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 7:25 AM PST
12 overcome by carbon monoxide at Pa. nursing home
<http://www.wfmj.com/Global/story.asp?S=7436186>
DENVER, Pa. (AP) – A dozen people were overcome by
carbon monoxide fumes at a central Pennsylvania
nursing home. The fumes were reported at the
Denver Nursing Home in Denver around 6 a.m. Friday.
Six residents and two staff members were admitted
to hospitals.
What a great idea................BA
Focusing on patients, one painted tile at a time
Chillicothe Gazette – Chillicothe,OH,USA
Wouldn't it be a good idea, the nurse asked her
supervisors, to have some of the ceiling tiles
painted for the benefit of the patients? ...
Nurse accused of asking Floyd County patients to
give her pills
New Albany Tribune – IN,USA
In July, a patient who was purportedly putting aside
medications for Stinson offered a nurse's aide a pill
when she complained of back pain. That medical
professional refused, and an investigation ensued
that eventually also involved the Indiana Attorney
General's Medicaid Fraud Unit.....
<http://www.news-tribune.net/
local/local_story_334104512.html>
Assisted living care in state is a mixed bag
Wisconsin State Journal – Madison,WI,USA
At elderspan, all administrators are registered nurses
and there's at least one caregiver -- usually a
certified nursing assistant -- for every dozen...
<http://www.madison.com/wsj/
topstories/index.php?ntid=259672>
Socal nursing home fined $100000 for patient's death
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
24 as a nursing assistant improperly tried to transfer
her from a wheelchair to a bed without help, according
to a health department citation. ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/
breakingnews/ci_7610931>
Nurse arrested for stealing drugs
WWBT – Richmond,VA,USA
In Hanover County a nurse is facing felony charges
after allegedly stealing prescription medication
from her workplace. Police say they were given a
tip ...
<http://www.nbc12.com/news/
state/11994526.html>
San Antonio Express-News,
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 2:35 PM PST
State closes San Antonio nursing home
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/
salife/health/stories/
MYSA120207.EN.NursingHome.5a1b1627.html>
State officials, citing the dire financial straights
of a South Side nursing home, closed the facility on
Saturday and evacuated its patients to other
San Antonio nursing homes.
Two get prison for elder abuse
The Express Times – Easton,PA,USA
By TOM QUIGLEY BELVIDERE | Nina Bohuslawsky tearfully
asked a judge for a lenient sentence Friday after her
attorney said the former nurse only wanted to ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/
nj/index.ssf?/base/news-6/
1196485669155160.xml&coll=2>
Ex-home care exec goes to prison
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) –
Milwaukee,WI,USA
Mark Hilgart, 46, bilked the Aurora Visiting Nurse
Association out of at least $587919 – and possibly
more than $700000, according to prosecutors – over ...
<http://www.jsonline.com/
story/index.aspx?id=691933>
Probe Uncovers TB At Nursing Home
KPHO Phoenix – Phoenix,AZ,USA
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz -- A patient at a Lake Havasu
City nursing home was battling an active case of
tuberculosis and passed the disease to several
others ...
<http://www.kpho.com/news/14749001/detail.html>
Students provide mural for nursing home wall
Anderson Herald Bulletin – Anderson,IN,USA
After discussing it with the Art Club students the
deal was set that the nursing home would provide
the paint, and the students, along with their
teacher, ...
<http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/
peopleandplaces/local_story_
335185636.html?keyword=topstory>
Future Uncertain for Nursing Home
Centralia Chronicle – Centralia,WA,USA
The nursing home on Long Road is home to some 40
residents, most with families in the area, according
to its administrator, Nadine De Klerk. ...
<http://www.chronline.com/
story.php?subaction=showfull&id=
1196521712&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1>
Daytona nursing home may be cut off from Medicare
and Medicaid ...
Orlando Sentinel – Orlando,FL,USA
Six Florida nursing homes, including Horizon Healthcare
Center at Daytona Beach, are among more than 100 poorly
performing facilities targeted by the...
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
classified/realestate/
orl-nursing0107dec01,0,682131.story>
Silent strength
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
Though not a deeply religious man, he allowed a nurse
to place a hand on him and pray as he lay at home in
bed. Within moments, he felt a surge of power and ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/
losgatos/ci_7616190>
Proper glasses lead to less depression in nursing homes
Houston Chronicle – United States
Nursing home residents with proper glasses enjoy life
more and are less depressed than those with uncorrected
vision problems, a study has found. Obvious? ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/life/main/5340151.html>
Area nursing homes compare favorably
Kingman Daily Miner – Kingman,AZ,USA
Kingman's three nursing homes stack up favorably
against those throughout Arizona, according to
comparisons posted on the Web site of the US
Department of ...
<http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/
main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=
18&ArticleID=13680&TM=53378.26>
Local nursing home makes deficiency list
Columbia Daily Tribune – Columbia,MO,USA
By TJ GREANEY of the Tribune's staff A Columbia
nursing home learned this week from the federal
government that it is among the worst in the
nation....
<http://www.columbiatribune.com/
2007/Dec/20071202News003.asp>
Southside Nursing Home Shuts Down
ClickonSA.com – San Antonio,TX,USA
SAN ANTONIO -- A Southside nursing home that avoided
being closed earlier this week was shut down by the
state Saturday. The facility has been unable
to pay ...
<http://www.ksat.com/news/
14751510/detail.html>
State closes troubled San Antonio nursing home
Houston Chronicle – United States
"We stayed all night and we bought them stuff so
they could eat," nursing assistant Bobby Rodriguez
said. "Nobody cared about them except for us. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/
story.mpl/metropolitan/5345760.html>
IPO Analysis: Nursing Home Operator Ensign Shows
Healthy Balance Sheet
Seeking Alpha – New York,NY,USA
We are a provider of skilled nursing and rehabilitative
care services through the operation of facilities
located in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, ...
<http://seekingalpha.com/article/
55996-ipo-analysis-nursing-home-
operator-ensign-shows-healthy-balance-sheet>
Hermitage nursing home CEO responds to suspensions
The Tennessean – Nashville,TN,USA
By COLBY SLEDGE The president of a Hermitage nursing
home that has been fined and barred from accepting
new residents has vowed to fight the state health ...
<http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/
article?AID=/20071202/NEWS07/71202013>
SPRINGDALE : Caregiver of senile fights City Hall
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – AR,USA
But until she closes on that deal, she plans on staying
put. "I can't turn them out," Hollows said. "They both
came from nursing homes, and their families ...
<http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/209363/>
Columbia Daily Tribune, Sun, 02 Dec 2007 8:26 AM PST
Local nursing home makes deficiency list
<http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Dec/20071202News003.asp>
A Columbia nursing home learned this week from the
federal government that it is among the worst in
the nation.
Montgomery Advertiser, Sun, 02 Dec 2007 2:02 AM PST
American Legion members provide for nursing home
<http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/
apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/
NEWS01/712020309>
Twenty members of Prattville's American Legion
W. Clyde Northington Post 122 will distribute
gift bags to about 80 residents of the nursing
home at Tuskegee's Veterans Adminis�tration
Hospital today.
The Herald Bulletin, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 8:11 PM PST
Students provide mural for nursing home wall
<http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/
peopleandplaces/local_story_335185636.html>
A group of students and their teacher recently gave
hours of their time and talents to provide beautiful
scenery for the residents of the Edgewater Woods
Nursing Home facility.
San Antonio Express-News, Sat, 01 Dec 2007 2:25 PM PST
State closes San Antonio nursing home
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/
metro/stories/MYSA120207.EN.
NursingHome.5a1b1627.html>
State officials, citing the dire financial straights
of a South Side nursing home, closed the facility on
Saturday and evacuated its patients to other
San Antonio nursing homes.
Link between tooth infection and hair loss
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32962>
There is a close relationship between infection
outbreaks on teeth and the presence of alopecia
areata or localized alopecia, a type of hair loss
which has an unknown origin.
New disease model for Huntington's
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32905>
Huntington's disease is a genetic time bomb: Programmed
in the genes, it appears at a predictable age in
adulthood, causing a progressive decline in mental and
neurological function and finally death.
Common medications could cause dry eye experts say
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32824>
Common oral and topical medications could be
causing dry eye in patients, according to
optometrists.
New report explores Medicaid's challenges in providing
long-term care
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=33040>
Medicaid has evolved to become the primary payer
for long-term care (LTC) services and supports to
low-income elderly and disabled individuals,
financing nearly half (42 percent) of the nation's
spending on long-term care services.
Health professionals worry about ethnic sensitivity
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=33034>
Health professionals worry that a lack of knowledge
about different cultures may lead to them being seen
as insensitive or inappropriate to patients from
different ethnic backgrounds – according to new
research.
The association of registered nurse staffing levels
and patient outcomes
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32959>
If hospitals added one more full-time registered
nurse on staff to care for patients, the number of
hospital-related deaths in the United States
could decrease significantly, according to a new
review.
Screening for dementia red flags in primary care:
Is it time?
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32947>
Primary care physicians should focus on
"dementia red flags" rather than routinely
screen individuals with no dementia symptoms
just because they've reached a certain age,
according to Malaz Boustani, M.D., MPH, of
the Indiana University School of Medicine
and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and
colleagues from the University of Kent and
the University of Cambridge in the
United Kingdom in a commentary published in
the Nov. 28 issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association.
JAMA: The Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Many employers do not implement programs to
improve quality and value of
health benefits
<http://www.news-medical.net/?id=32749>
A new survey indicates that among large employers,
many have not examined data on physician quality
or shared health plan or physician data with
employees that could help improve the value and
quality of health benefits, according to a study
in the November 21 issue of JAMA.
"Barbara Acello, RN"
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Divorces contributing to global warming: study
Divorces contributing to global warming: study
Sydney, Dec 3 (IANS) Increasing number of divorces are contributing to global warming, says a new study that suggests people should save their marriages to save the environment.
After divorce a woman moves out and forms a new household. The study by researchers at the Michigan State University found that this leads to less efficient use of natural resources, more demand for land for housing, and higher expenditure on utilities, reported the online edition of News Australia.
Researchers surveyed 3,283 homes in the US between 2001 and 2005.
<http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=1130685>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Reports of mentally ill double on firearm database
Reports of mentally ill double on firearm database
By Lara Jakes Jordan
The number of mentally ill people named in a federal database barring them from buying guns has more than doubled since the Virginia Tech shootings, the Justice Department said yesterday.
The increase follows stepped-up reporting to a federal database used to screen the backgrounds of potential gun-buyers. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced the increase at an afternoon speech in Park City, Utah. The number of people identified in the national instant background check database as having mental problems grew from 174,863 three months after the April 16 Virginia Tech shootings to 393,957 this month.
"As the Virginia Tech tragedy made clear, it is vital that [the database] have accurate and complete information on persons prohibited from possessing firearms because of mental health history," Mr. Mukasey told the National Association of Attorneys General. "Several states have begun submitting records that previously had not, or have worked to increase the number of records they submit."
In his first policy speech since being sworn in as attorney general earlier this month, Mr. Mukasey said he hoped more states will submit the names.
People are included in the federal database only after courts or other lawful authorities have found them to have mental health problems, Justice Department officials said. Currently, 32 states submit names to the mental health database, and the federal government cannot force the other 18 to follow suit.
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20071130/METRO/111300072/1004>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Japan offers to solve 'Union Jack problem'
Japan offers to solve 'Union Jack problem'
Japanese readers have made an unlikely intervention into the Britishness debate by offering to help solve the row over the future of the Union Jack.
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Earlier this week a Labour MP called for the Union flag to be redesigned to include the Welsh Dragon.
Some designs were comic, others would have a somewhat limited shelf-life.
Following an invitation for Telegraph readers to submit their designs, a broad range of interesting suggestions were sent in. At first most of the readers' flags were sent from within the UK, but then a Japanese website offered to help. "We heard the news of the Union Jack problem," they wrote. "We believe that our new ideas will help." Others were more subtle re-workings of the original Union Jack design The designs ranged from the sober and sensible to the frankly comic.
The debate began when Wrexham MP Ian Lucas said the current design does not represent Wales's "true place in the Union".
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Sudan Pardons Briton in Teddy Row
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<http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/
africa/12/03/sudan.teacher/?iref=mpstoryview>
A shorter URL for the above link:
Story Highlights
NEW: Sudan's president pardons a Briton convicted of insulting religion
Gillian Gibbons is expected to be freed Monday afternoon
She was jailed for letting students name teddy bear Mohammed
KHARTOUM, Sudan (CNN) -- Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir pardoned a British teacher convicted of insulting religion, presidential palace sources said.
Gillian Gibbons is expected to be freed Monday afternoon, sources told Time magazine's Sam Dealey Monday.
She will then leave Khartoum on a flight later in the day, along with the two British lawmakers who arrived there Saturday to secure her release.
Gibbons, 54, was sentenced to 15 days in jail last Thursday for having allowed her students at a private school to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."
Without a pardon, she would have remained in jail another six days.
The pardon came following efforts by Nazir Ahmed and Sayeeda Warsi, Muslim members of the House of Lords, to persuade the Sudanese government that releasing Gibbons would create international goodwill toward their country.
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By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: December 1, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/washington/01fda.html>
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 The nations food supply is at risk, its drugs are potentially dangerous and its citizens lives are at stake because the Food and Drug Administration is desperately short of money and poorly organized, according to an alarming report by agency advisers.
The report, made public on Friday, is the latest and perhaps most far-reaching in a string of outside assessments that have concluded that the F.D.A. is poorly equipped to protect the public health.
It was written by three members of the F.D.A. Science Board, an advisory panel that reports directly to the agencys commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach. The three authors in turn had 30 scientific advisers.
The report concludes that over the last two decades, the agencys public health responsibilities have soared while its appropriations have barely budged. The result is that the F.D.A. is falling farther and farther behind in carrying out its responsibilities and understanding the science it needs to do its many jobs.
F.D.A.s inability to keep up with scientific advances means that American lives are at risk, the report stated.
Sandy Walsh of the F.D.A. said the agency values the evaluation done by the subcommittee members and the scientific experts that were consulted but would not comment further.
Barbara J. McNeil, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School and one of the reports authors, said she was stunned at the agencys sorry state.
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ALERT :
CONSUMER AND INTERNET FRAUD HOAXES AND SCAMS:
Email "Call for Papers" (SPAM) DOES NOT Come From Elsevier
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:28:37 EST
From: "Menefee, Daviess (ELS-NYC)" <(Address removed)>
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To: (Address removed)
Subject: Email "Call for Papers" (spam) does not come from Elsevier
Over the past few days a fraudulent message has appeared on
several scientific Internet sites requesting a "Call for Papers"
and referencing Elsevier as the sender. This message is now
being forwarded to library listservs. It uses a fake publisher
email address and tries to look like an official announcement.
Please be aware that this is a spam message and is a fraud that
is being perpetrated on potential authors since it asks for money
up front. Please be assured that this is not an Elsevier email
and Elsevier is in no way involved with this scam. Elsevier is
working with authorities to counter the spread of this fraud.
If you come across the spam email 'Call for Papers' please do not respond to it. We kindly request that you forward the email to (Address removed). Thank you for your cooperation with
this matter.
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Library Relations
Elsevier
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Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:25:10 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program in 2003 – New
Intelligence Report
Bush contradicted on Iran nuclear program
Mon 3 Dec 2007, 21:17 GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new U.S. intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb.
The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released on Monday could undermine U.S. efforts to convince other world powers to agree on a third package of U.N. sanctions against Iran for defying demands to halt uranium enrichment activities.
Tensions have escalated in recent months as Washington has ratcheted up the rhetoric against Tehran, with
U.S.
President George W. Bush
insisting in October that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War Three.
But in a finding likely to surprise U.S. friends and foes alike, the latest NIE concluded: "We do not know whether (Iran) currently intends to develop nuclear weapons."
That marked a sharp contrast to an intelligence report two years ago that stated Iran was "determined to develop nuclear weapons."
But the new assessment found Iran was continuing to develop technical capabilities that could be used to build a bomb and that it would likely be capable of producing enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon "sometime during the 2010–2015 time-frame."
The shift in the intelligence community's thinking on Iran comes five years after a flawed NIE concluded neighbouring Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction -- a report that helped pave the way for the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
No weapons of mass destruction were ever found in Iraq and intelligence agencies since have been more cautious about Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were briefed on the NIE last Wednesday, senior intelligence officials said. They said political officials had no input into the findings.
Iran has already been hit with two rounds of U.N. sanctions. Washington, which insists it wants to solve the problem diplomatically while leaving military options "on the table," is pushing for tougher measures but faces resistance from China and Russia.
Tehran insists it wants nuclear technology only for civilian purposes, such as electricity generation.
The nuclear standoff has become a major issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, with candidates weighing in on the prospects for military action against Iran.
<http://africa.reuters.com/world/news/usnWBT008012.html>
The entire article can be read at at the above URL.
Sincerely,
Sue Fraser
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