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The Director of Research for a school that administers shocks to change children's behavior defends the method. The Director of Yale's Child Neuroscience Laboratory, and a father of autistic children, disagrees with the treatment; he says punishment doesn't treat the underlying cause.
This type of inhumane action can NOT be called treatment instead be called PUNISHMENT for innocent ANGELS. This is barbaric & the LAW ENFORCEMENT should monitor the people who have committed this crime to these innocent Angels. These children must have been used as research subjects by some so called scientist/s. Imagine, if this technique is combined with microchip,electrodes & GPS system then people could be shocked from a remote location via the satellite & people will not know the reasons for the pain & sedation. The pseudo symptoms of electrIC SHOCK could be misdiagnosed for epilepsy. A friend of mine is always sedated in public places & when he tried to study for exams. He always complain that he gets lot of pain in the left eye during this sedation time. Anderson Cooper was touching briefly about electrodes & remote control shock. Anderson Cooper should be rewarded for uncovering these secret crimes against humanity. We would like to hear any information about wireless taser via the satellite with the help of GPS system & microchip. Thank you ,Sir Anderson Cooper for helping us to understand the unbelievable. Please do some investigation on shocking innocent HUMANS through GPS & ELECTRODES & MICROCHIPS. Hoping to hear from CNN on shocking innocents through remote control & satelites. Thanks a million, SIR ANDERSON COOPER
Institutions such as this have been banned all across the country throughout the history of developmental disabilities. Closed because of inhumane and utterly vile treatments similar to those shown in this video. It makes me shutter to think that there are highly educated, licensed professionals in this country who can argue the validity of this demeaning practice. As a former community support provider for young adults with Autism, and now an active duty service member, I am disgusted and enraged on behalf of those individuals and the families of those indivuals who cannot defend themselves. Organizations such as Pennhurst Hospital were closed for a reason, a very good reason. To make advancement in research and ultimately the treatment of these individuals. These young people rely on us to protect them and to speak for them. it is time this institution realizes why they are still the only in the country to participate in this treatment. It doesn't work.
Anderson, thank you for bringing this story to the attention of the US population. I was appauled to see the footage last evening on your show & am grateful that you were able to expose this. Thanks to you and State Senator Joyce - it is my hope and likely the hope of anyone watching your show that action be taken immediately to stop any form of shock therapy with this children and that this school also be closed.
yikes!! ::facepalm:: I heartily believe that anyone delivering "aversive" therapies must be first subjected to a protocol of their own treatments first.
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This makes me so sick, My 6 year old son has PDD which is a form of Autism and if anyone did that to him I would freak, no one should be treated that way especially kids with disabilities, there are better ways to help them my son use to hit him self and bang his head on walls and ect. and with the right help which is not shock therapy he grew out of it. this makes me really sad
As someone who was offered a position at JRC, I can attest to the "house of horrors" that it really is. Unbelievable that they are still open. The create a culture of fear where children behave because they are terrified. Then they are treated for PTSD elsehwhere...
I'm 71 years old and from upstate New York. When I was 10 and 11 years old, my mother was subjected to numerous shock treatments as therapy for a "nervous breakdown". There were times at the State Hospital in Binghamton where I could hear my mother screaming while being administered those treatmenst. To a small boy, they were terrifying for me to hear. Anyone who now uses such barbaric therapy, regardless of why they consider the need should be subjected to the same treatment. This outrageous treatment of disabled persons must be stopped immediately.
How is this even still allowed in our country?! Serial Killers are treated better than this nowadays. Its completely and utterly mind boggling that this so called school is still open. These children are mentally handicapped, they can't help how they are. The parents that say this "helps" their" children obviously need a psych evaluation of their own. This pathetic excuse for a school needs to be shut down and everyone employed put in prison immediately.
This is not corrective action. This is not just torture This is criminal assault. Especially because its a group picking on an individual. It doesn't matter what this issue with the kids are. The people doing this are criminally responsible and should be fired and the brought before the law in court. Even your dog is treated than this!
This is crime against humanity!!!! Where are we Nazi Germany? Don't let the "experts" that are proponents of this branwash you with their justifications. This practice shouldn't even be up for discussion. It's harm in the name of so called help. This is about social control and forcing a person to comply. Shut this school down immediately. I wouldn't treat an animal like this, much less a human being.
I have been a counselor for many years and this is not treatment; it's evil.
People often say rightly that people with severe problems should get help;
yet until we outlaw and jail sadistic "treaters" why would a person fearful of the
system take the risk to get that help. Severe drugging or shocking is the lazy
hack's way. It's about compassion, finding creative ways to reach the detatched,
giving hope, (coupled with a plan) for each individual to get through life whole.
But in our fast-food managed scare society (metaphorically)
One flew over the cookoo's nest "treatment" rather than "Good Will Hunting"
or "Ordinary People" style help; is taught to the next generation of "helpers."
What a load of CRAP. there are no excuses ever to do this amount of abuse on any one or any thing, let alone a disabled child


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Two Polish climbers have gone missing on Broad Peak (8,047m) in Pakistan after making a first winter ascent of the mountain. On March 5, 2013, Maciej Berbeka, 59, and Tomasz Kowalski, 27, summited as part of a team of four along with Artur Malek and Adam Bielecki. While Bielecki and Malek were able to reach Camp 4 (7,400m) after summiting, Berbeka and Kowalski had to bivy not far below the summit at 7,900m. At present, there is no information on the pair's whereabouts or well-being.
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It's gotten to the point where I don't want to bother deconstructing columns from Rob Enderle. Not only do I not want to give the man any more ink, his opinions are so pointlessly wrong they don't need rebutting, and he repeats himself a lot. However, when he puts out facts that are wrong, and I mean wrong, there needs to be a correction somewhere on the World Wide Web, and so I will roll my eyes and do just that.
To wit, Mr. Enderle wrote a column Tuesday for TechNewsWorld, one of his usual haunts, that attempts to show how Apple is a step or two away from becoming a Windows OEM. As usual, his views are supported with error and misunderstandings (on his part), and that's what I am going to address today.
First of all, Mr. Enderle said that the release of a beta version of Boot Camp, Apple's new software that allows Mac owners to run Windows natively on their Intel-powered Macs, makes Apple "a tentative Windows platform OEM." That's an absurd supposition, even though I think Apple should embrace Windows*.
However, Mr. Enderle noted that, "Last week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) became a tentative Windows platform OEM with its announcement of Boot Camp, which allows new Mac hardware to run Windows XP and, eventually, Vista. Apple had said it wasn't planning to support Windows -- just like it said it didn't plan to support Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) or bring out flash-based media players.
When Apple announces something it won't do, it might actually be a sign or warning of something it will do."
For once, I completely agree with Mr. Enderle! Apple's stated position that it will not support Windows might well mean the opposite is in the works. The company regularly and repeatedly does the opposite of what it had previously said it would do.
From there, however, we spiral down into the weird, whacky world of Rob Enderle, where up is red, down is spleen, and the earth orbits on fish.
"If you want to talk about something that lit up the week, this was it," he opined. "Suddenly, with one seemingly easy move, Apple is a player in the PC space again."
I am not going to be an Apple apologist, but considering the fact that people like Rob Enderle spend so much of their time writing about Apple, the company clearly has been a player in the PC market for the last 30 years and 12 days. Oh, and Apple's market share is rising fast, and the company is one of two PC vendors to make a profit on sales of computers.
Red herrings are one of Mr. Enderle's specialties, and this kind of statement -- that Apple is not currently a player in the PC space -- is merely an effort to downplay Apple in the minds of his readers in order to make the rest of his utterings appear to make sense.
He then goes on with something about Disney not buying Macs running Mac OS X (not true the last time I got a help-wanted notice from Disney to run at TMO, but possibly not true today), and how they might if they were "priced competitively" and ran Windows.
Let's say for a second that this is true, and that Apple is singularly concerned with Disney's buying plans: Apple will never compete on price as long as Steve Jobs is at the helm, not to mention the fact that it won't not sell an integrated OS/hardware solution as long as Mr. Jobs is CEO. Take away either of those things, and Apple loses to Dell.
It's also not in Mr. Jobs' DNA.
Steve Jobs wants three things in his products: Control, control, control. He can't control Microsoft, and by extension Windows, so he's not going to rely on it for an OS. He might sell Windows in addition to Mac OS X, but Macs will always run an OS controlled by Steve Jobs as long as he is CEO. That's really all there is to that.
Anyway, back to Mr. Enderle, who wrote: "When he reclaimed leadership of Apple, the company was trying to build a product that was very similar to OS/2, which had a compatibility feature that would run older applications. He killed it because he, and all of us that covered OS/2 as analysts, had learned that what happens when you have a dual mode product like this is that developers don't move on it. Then you are only left with your own, increasingly lonely, underused applications. This is one of the reasons Copland was killed and replaced with the hybrid Unix blend that became OS X, which had limited OS 9 support."
Where do I begin when it comes to the factual errors?
- Steve Jobs came back to Apple in the first place because Gil Amelio and Ellen Hancock had already killed Copland, which was why NeXT was purchased in the first place.
- Copland was killed because it was out of control and nowhere near completion (and again, it was killed before Mr. Jobs came back), and not because it had an emulation layer. This is one of the most absurd things I have ever read.
- Mac OS X, the OS that replaced Mac OS 7/8/9, had a compatibility layer that allowed Classic Mac OS apps to run. Mr. Jobs was CEO when that was put in place, the same person Mr. Enderle claims knows that emulation kills future adoption.
Even though his entire premise is based on incorrect facts -- and I mean this is basic, basic stuff -- he goes on to say Apple has been losing developers for years anyway, "and nothing it has done so far has had any measurable impact on these losses."
Never mind that each of the last three Apple World Wide Developer Conferences have been bigger than the year before, and that membership to Apple's Developer Connection has been on the rise for the last several years, too.
It's just silly, really.
In any event, since Apple has lost all its developers and has to pay all this money to develop its own OS, the company will finally see the wisdom of adopting Windows. The logic is clear, according to Mr. Enderle, because Windows is modular (whatever), and Apple will be able to slap its` own look and feel on top of Windows to keep us Mac users comfy.
This is, of course, astoundingly bad reasoning, and makes me once again ask the question of who in the heck hires this man as a consultant?
But I digress...
Not only would there be major compatibility issues with other Windows software if Apple skinned Windows, it would negate Apple's one competitive advantage, the aforementioned control of the OS. Were Apple to do this, the company would be competing with Dell, something that no one does well.
Lastly, Mr. Enderle backs up his assertions by noting that, "Historically, Apple has felt that moving to Windows would simply result in Microsoft taking the market from it. However, Apple moved to Windows with the iPod and took that market from everyone else, and Microsoft has been unable to take it back."
Of course, that's just flat wrong. Apple competes on the Windows platform with iPod and iTunes, but iPod doesn't run Windows. It runs a proprietary OS that keeps control in the hands of Apple. That makes is precisely NOT analogous to Macs running Windows.
This is just such simple stuff.
The rest of Mr. Enderle's column rambles off to talk about the EU's efforts to shackle Microsoft, and is unrelated to the bits I just destroyed. You're welcome to read it if you can stomach it.
The strange thing, at least to me, is that it's so hard to take Rob Enderle's opinion and analyst seriously when it so often is based on "facts" that are just plain wrong. For instance, someone making the case for Apple to become a Windows OEM PC maker can make a logical argument for that idea (that it necessitates a complete lack of understanding of Steve Jobs' motivations and ideas on business is another issue).
On the other hand, when that argument is based on a house of errors, I personally can't get past those errors to ever properly consider the position presented. That may explain my obvious frustration with the likes of Rob Enderle, since I am guessing it shows through.
* It is my opinion that Apple can grow Mac OS X's market share by working with Microsoft to have an Apple-certified version of Windows for Macs. The short version is that I think Apple should let Microsoft handle the support -- something the company has become adept at since Windows sucks so much -- leaving Apple to sell this version of Windows in its stores, and preload (for a fee) the OS (in addition to Mac OS X, of course) right out of the factory. If you would like to read my full thoughts on this complex issue, and let me know. If enough people are interested, I'll write a column about it.
began using Apple computers in 1983 in a high school BASIC programming class. He started using Macs in 1990 when the Kinko's guy taught him how to use Aldus PageMaker, finally buying a Power Computing Power 100 in 1995. Today, Bryan is the Editor of The Mac Observer, and has contributed to the print versions of MacAddict and MacFormat (UK).
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Listen to the call of the red-breasted gaming warbler
I can tell spring will arrive soon because the red-breasted gaming warblers have returned to Illinois.
You've all heard their familiar "Tra-lee! This is the year, awwk!" song. They chirp it when snow is still on the ground and end it just before Memorial Day. And then they're gone for another year.
Illinois has 10 casinos, the limit allowed under state law. Promoters of more gambling casinos for Illinois are, indeed, chirping their familiar song this year, telling us that conditions are now right for more casino gambling in the state. One of those casino licenses would be designated for Rockford, with others going to Chicago, Danville, one in Lake County and one in the south suburbs.
At least, that's what the gambling bill has said for the past few years. That bill has never passed, because the owners of the 10 casinos don't want more competition and they've had the clout to stop it.
Two reasons this is supposed to be the year for casino expansion have to do with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel being desperate for cash to balance the city's budget, and Illinois' horse racing tracks seeking a boost from video slots to stay afloat. In our instant society, people aren't as willing to spend three hours at the track as they used to be. So, racetracks would become "racinos" featuring many video slots.
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I doubt many visitors beyond Beloit's northern boundary would waltz into Rockford to gamble; a casino here would mostly diminish the supply of local money that would otherwise be used at retail stores or to pay household bills.
I also think the explosion of video gambling machines in bars, clubs and restaurants has dried up the market for a grand casino, judging from what I see around Rockford and nearby suburbs.
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For some small restaurant and pub owners, video gambling is providing the money they need to stay profitable at a time when people have fewer discretionary dollars to spend. Some don't appreciate the new video gambling parlours that are popping up on key thoroughfares like East State Street.
I don't gamble, but I don't mind if you gamble. Wether we approve of video gambling or not, it's here to stay, and it's popular. The Register Star reported in October that video gamblers in Illinois spent $2.5 billion in the year since the machines went live. "Video gaming terminals are now raking in nearly $30 million a month, making them more profitable than nine of the state's 10 riverboat casinos," the story said.
So enjoy the song of the red-breasted gaming warblers while you can. It'll be a cold day in May before our General Assembly passes a casino expansion bill.
Given the frigid weather we've been having, however, we COULD have more than one cold days in May. So, as my grandma used to say, "You don't never know."
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Reader John Cobb asked me whether the first Beatles performance on the Ed Sullivan Show was seen in Rockford, because the CBS affiliate wasn't on the air on Feb. 9, 1964. WCEE, later WIFR, switched on sometime in 1965, so Cobb wondered if Rockfordians only saw the 1965 Sullivan shows featuring The Beatles.
We did see the first performance here - I took pictures of it on the TV screen. Before CBS had its own Rockford station, WREX-13 broadcast a mix of CBS and ABC shows, and Ed Sullivan was one of them.
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CHARLOTTE — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had to work overtime to keep their playoff surge alive.
Josh Freeman threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Dallas Clark in overtime to cap the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' 27-21 comeback win over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.
It was Freeman's third touchdown pass of the game for the Buccaneers (6-4), who have now won five of their last six games.
Carolina appeared to have the game in hand after a 29-yard touchdown pass from Cam Newton to Brandon LaFell put the Panthers (2-8) up 21-10 with six minutes left in the game. But after a 40-yard field goal by Connor Barth, the Panthers' offense couldn't put the game away and had to punt.
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Newton finished with 252 yards passing and a touchdown and Jonathan Stewart ran for 43 yards and a score for the Panthers, who failed to avenge a 16-10 loss to the Bucs in the season opener.
Of Carolina's last six losses, they've led in the fourth quarter in five of them.
The Bucs came in as one of the hottest teams in the league having scored an average of 35.6 points per game during the past five games.
But after scoring a quick 10 points, the Panthers defense shut them down for most of the remainder of the three quarters forcing three turnovers, including a 74-yard interception return for a touchdown by Captain Munnerlyn and a key fumble by rookie Doug Martin on a fourth-and-goal at the 1-yard line.
Trailing 14-10, the Bucs appeared ready to take the lead after driving 15 plays to the Carolina 1.
But on fourth down, Bucs coach Greg Schiano went for the touchdown instead of the field goal and linebacker Thomas Davis plowed into Martin, forcing the ball out near the goal line. Fellow linebacker Luke Kuechly, the team's first-round draft pick, recovered in the end zone for a touchback.
Officials reviewed the play to see if Martin got in, but the call stood.
The Panthers immediately cashed in on the change of momentum as Newton led the Panthers 80 yards on seven plays, converting two key third downs along the way. He capped the drive with a 29-yard scoring strike to a wide-open LaFell on a crossing route to make it a two-possession game at 21-10.
The Bucs would cut the lead to 21-13 Barth's field goal with 4:03 left in the game.
Tampa Bay would get one last shot and Freeman made the most of it. The Bucs got a big 15-yard penalty when officials ruled Davis hit a defenseless receiver in the head. But the big play was Carolina's inability to defend Jackson on the TD pass down the middle.
Things didn't start well for the Panthers on Sunday.
Less than a week after firing special teams coordinator Brian Murphy, Munnerlyn, who doubles as the team's punt returner, was hit by Jacob Cutrera and fumbled at the Panthers 29. Dekoda Watson recovered for the Bucs and six plays later, Freeman, found tight end Nate Byham in the back of the end zone for a touchdown and early 7-0 lead early midway through the first quarter.
The Bucs added to that lead later in the first quarter on Barth's 51-yard field goal.
And when Carolina's two leading sack artists, Charles Johnson and Greg Hardy, collided in the backfield and remained on the ground for more than minute while being attended to by trainers, it seemed this game might be ready to spiral out of control.
The game changed suddenly and unexpectedly a few plays later.
With two rookie defensive ends in the game, the Panthers got pressure on Freeman up the middle and he threw a weak ball toward the flat. That's where Munnerlyn made up for his earlier mistake by returning the ball 74 yards for a touchdown.
The Panthers came up with a defensive stop on their next possession and Newton drove Carolina 77 yards on eight plays with Jonathan Stewart scoring on a 1-yard touchdown plunge to give the Panthers a 14-10 lead.


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Giving Diplomacy a Chance, Obama Delays Vote on Syria Intervention
President says U.S. military will be ready to strike if measures fail.
WASHINGTON | President Barack Obama told a war-weary nation Tuesday night that diplomacy suddenly holds "the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons" in Syria without the use of force. But he also vowed the U.S. military will be ready to strike against President Bashar Assad if other measures fail.
For now, Obama said he had asked congressional leaders to postpone a vote on legislation he has been seeking to authorize the use of military force against Syria.
In a 16-minute speech, the president repeatedly offered reassurances that even the failure of diplomacy — in promised talks at the United Nations or elsewhere — would not plunge America into another war.
"I will not put American boots on the ground in Syria," he promised. "I will not pursue an open-ended action like Iraq or Afghanistan. I will not pursue a prolonged air campaign like Libya or Kosovo."
"This would be a targeted strike to achieve a clear objective: deterring the use of chemical weapons and degrading Assad's capabilities," he said.
The speech capped a frenzied 10-day stretch that began when he unexpectedly announced he was stepping back from a threatened military strike and instead asking Congress first to pass legislation authorizing the use of such force against Assad.
With public opinion polls consistently showing widespread opposition to American military intervention, the White House has struggled mightily to generate support among liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans alike who have expressed fears of involvement in yet another war in the Middle East and have questioned whether U.S. national security interests were at stake in Syria. Obama had trouble, as well, building international support for a military attack designed to degrade Assad's military.
Suddenly, though, events took another unexpected turn this week. First, Russia and then Syria reacted positively to a remark from Secretary of State John Kerry indicating that the crisis could be defused if Damascus agreed to put its chemical weapons under international control.
The president said he was sending Kerry to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday, and he added, "I will continue my own discussion" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has said he had been discussing ways out of the Syrian predicament for some time.
At the same time, he said the United States and its allies would work with Russia and China to present a resolution to the United Nations Security Council "requiring Assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately destroy them under international control."
"It's too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keeps its commitments," he said.
Acknowledging the weariness the nation feels after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama said, "America is not the world's policeman."
And yet, he added, "When with modest effort and risk we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act. That's what makes America different. That's what makes us exceptional."
"Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria, along with our leadership of a world where we seek to ensure that the worst weapons will never be used," he declared.
Obama recounted the events of the deadly chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21 that the United States blames on Assad.
"When dictators commit atrocities, they depend upon the world to look the other way until these horrifying pictures fade from memory. But these things happened. The facts cannot be denied," he said.
The president said firmly that Assad's alleged attack was "not only a violation of international law, it's also a danger to our security."
If diplomacy now fails and the United States fails to act, he said, "the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons" and "other tyrants will have no reason to think twice about acquiring poison gas and using" it. Over time, he added, U.S. troops could face the threat of chemical warfare, and if fighting escapes Syria's border, "these weapons could threaten allies like Turkey, Jordan and Israel."
In the run-up to the president's speech, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel pointedly told a congressional hearing it was not time to let the threat of military retaliation lapse. "For this diplomatic option to have a chance at succeeding, the threat of a U.S. military action, the credible, real threat of U.S. military action, must continue," he declared.
At the same hearing, Kerry said any diplomacy "cannot be a process of delay. This cannot be a process of avoidance."
He later added that any agreement must include binding consequences if Syria fails to comply, and lawmakers moved to rewrite pending legislation along the same lines.


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For the first time the Vatican has revealed details on the specific numbers of priests removed in 2011 and 2012.
A document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for sexually molesting children.
The statistics for 2011 and 2012 show a dramatic increase over the 171 priests removed in 2008 and 2009, when the Vatican first provided details on the number of priests who have been defrocked. Prior to that, it had only publicly revealed the number of alleged cases of sexual abuse it had received and the number of trials it had authorized.
While it's not clear why the numbers spiked in 2011, it could be because 2010 saw a new explosion in the number of cases reported in the media in Europe and beyond.
The document was prepared from data the Vatican had been collecting and was compiled to help the Holy See defend itself before a U.N. committee this week in Geneva.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, referred to just one of the statistics in the course of eight hours of oftentimes pointed criticism and questioning from the U.N. human rights committee.The statistics were compiled from the Vatican's own annual reports about the activities of its various offices, including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles sex abuse cases. Although public, the annual reports are not readily available or sold outside Rome and are usually found in Vatican offices or Catholic university libraries.
An AP review of the reference books shows a remarkable evolution in the Holy See's in-house procedures to discipline pedophiles since 2001, when the Vatican ordered bishops to send cases of all credibly accused priests to Rome for review.
Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took action after determining that bishops around the world weren't following church law to put accused clerics on trial in church tribunals. Bishops routinely moved problem priests from parish to parish rather than subject them to canonical trials — or turn them into police.
For centuries, the church has had its own in-house procedures to deal with priests who sexually abuse children. One of the chief accusations from victims is that bishops put the church's own procedures ahead of civil law enforcement by often suggesting victims keep accusations quiet while they are dealt with internally.
The maximum penalty for a priest convicted by a church tribunal is essentially losing his job: being defrocked, or removed from the clerical state. There are no jail terms and nothing to prevent an offender from raping again.
The Congregation started reporting numbers only in 2005, which is where Tomasi's spreadsheet starts off. U.N. officials said Friday that the committee has not received the document.
In 2005, the Congregation authorized bishops to launch church trials against 21 accused clerics, and reported that its appeals court had handled two cases. It didn't say what the verdicts were, according to the annual reports cited by the spreadsheet.
In 2006, the number of canonical trials authorized doubled to 43 and eight appeals cases were heard. And for the first time, the Congregation revealed publicly the number of cases reported to it: 362, though that figure includes a handful of non-abuse related canonical crimes.
A similar number of cases were reported in 2007 — 365 — but again the Congregation didn't specify how many were abuse-related. Vatican officials, however, have said that it received between 300-400 cases a year in these years following the 2002 explosion of U.S. sex abuse cases in the U.S. In 2007, 23 cases were sent to dioceses for trial.
By 2008, the tone of the Vatican's entry had changed. Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, traveled to the scandal-hit United States that year and is quoted in the annual report as telling reporters en route that he was "mortified" by the scale of abuse and simply couldn't comprehend "how priests could fail in such a way."
That year's entry was also notable for another reason: For the first time, an official Vatican document made clear that nothing in the church process precluded victims from reporting abuse to police.
There was also another first in 2008, a critical year as abuse lawsuits in the U.S. naming the Holy See as a defendant were heating up: For the first time, the Vatican revealed the number of priests who had been defrocked: 68. Some 191 new cases were reported.
A year later, the number of defrocked priests rose to 103, while some 223 new cases were received, the vast majority of them abuse-related.
The year 2010 was another milestone in the sex abuse saga, with the explosion of thousands of cases reported in the media across Europe and beyond. Some 527 cases were reported to the Congregation. No figures were given that year for the number of defrocked priests, rather the Congregation described new church laws put in place to more easily and quickly remove them.
By 2011, with the new streamlined laws in place, the number of defrocked priests rose dramatically: 260 priests were removed in one year only, while 404 new cases of child abuse were reported. In addition to those defrocked, another 419 priests had lesser penalties imposed on them for abuse-related crimes.
In 2012, the last year for which statistics are available, the number of defrockings dropped to 124, with another 418 new cases reported.


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This is a series highlighting folks who identify as Radical Doulas. Are you interested in being part of the series? Go here to provide your responses to the profile questions and I'll include you!
My name is Madeleine Shernock. My training and experiences include work as a teen sexuality educator, doula, shodhini, and student midwife. As a birth professional, I have worked to increase access to evidence-based care for low-income women, homeless families, people of color, and LGBT families. My goal has always been to not let cost be an issue for expectant families; everyone deserves a safe, healthy, and satisfying birth experience free of trauma. In Sacramento, I founded Welcome Home Doula Services. WHDS is a group practice of doulas, childbirth educators, and other professionals who prioritize labor support for low-income women. Through the organization I trained several apprentice doulas, organized a call schedule with a local teaching hospital, and provided over 4000 hours of support to families. As far as I know, this was the first organization of its kind in the greater Sacramento area, and is still for the most part volunteer-run. Now that I am in Arcata (my hometown), I have been working to start a similar program (Pacific Northwest Birth Services) in the redwoods. Contact Info: firstname.lastname@example.com.
What inspired you to become a doula?
I became a doula originally as a stepping stone to becoming a midwife; after labor support training with a handful of organizations/individuals, I truly appreciated the essential role that doulas play in maintaining an emotionally (and thus physically) safe atmosphere for those giving birth, and those being born. I've stuck around as a doula and educator for the last couple of years, and don't plan on quitting until there isn't a need for continuous labor support in the birthing room.
Why do you identify with the term radical doula?
I think it's totally wild that being a calm, supportive, objective force for folks experiencing the spectrum of pregnancy choices and outcomes can be termed "radical," and I think that speaks to the bigger forces at work in our maternity and reproductive care setup in the U.S.
I think that the role of a doula is to stand by someone and walk through it with them (whatever "it" happens to be), bear witness to their emotions and physical changes, provide support, and share their story with others to create social change. I suppose it's seen as radical that I support people through abortions, miscarriages, lesbian pregnancies, births, and so on…my goal is always to help people feel more comfortable in their bodies, to remove shame and guilt from the equation, and to safeguard individual reproductive experiences whatever they may be.
What is your doula philosophy and how does it fit into your broader political beliefs?
The philosophy that drives my work as a doula is that everyone is entitled to (emotionally and physically) safe, culturally appropriate reproductive care as a basic human right. This care is different from person to person, but it should always recognize the individual as the primary care provider for their body. I encourage public policies, organizations, and individuals who support this concept and work to make it accessible to all.
What is your favorite thing about being a doula?
I love teaching, whether it's teaching a group class or having a one-on-one consult with a client; I love the information exchange that happens, because we all learn something.
If you could change one thing about birth, what would it be?
I would organize for many more funding opportunities for midwifery students; there are so, so many people who want to be care providers for pregnant folks and very few programs offer scholarships or even loans. More funding for midwifery education means closing disparities in care, midwives serving their own communities, and safer pregnancies and births.


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Most of Congress coming back despite dismal approval
WASHINGTON - Listen up voters, you're the boss.
Your employee has barely produced the past two years, has hardly showed up for work, hasn't cooperated with others and has gotten low marks on every evaluation. Time to fire 'em, right?
When the results are counted this Tuesday, Americans will have resoundingly rehired a big majority of the House and Senate despite railing for months about an ineffective, bitterly divided Congress.
Help from the once-a-decade redrawing of congressional districts is one reason so many lawmakers will return to Washington. The first election after that politically driven process is typically a high point for those in office. But redistricting is hardly the only reason. The power of incumbency, with its name recognition and cash advantages, also is responsible.
At least 15 senators of the 22 seeking re-election are expected to cruise to new terms. The same is true for at least 330 House members from coast to coast, based on interviews with Republicans and Democrats, opinion polls and a tally of non-competitive races.
There have been some close calls. Twenty-one-term Rep. Charlie Rangel faced a scare in his primary but probably will win in his heavily Democratic New York City district. Sen. Orrin Hatch fought off a tea party challenge and is expected to easily win a seventh term in solidly Republican Utah. Ethics and sex scandals - even skinny dipping in the Sea of Galilee - won't stop other incumbents.
Yet in survey after survey this year, Americans overwhelmingly have given Congress an abysmal approval rating in the low double-digits. Even its members joke darkly about their standing compared to, say, used car salesmen or tax collectors or even journalists.
Support for Congress, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has often said, is "down to paid staffers and blood relatives."
A quick look at the statistics suggests why.
In two years of partisan backbiting and brinkmanship over the nation's finances, the current Congress has produced just 196 laws, including quite a few renaming post offices or appointing members to the board of the Smithsonian Institution.
The once-easy work such as a transportation bill took months of wrangling.
Compare that to the 460 laws of President George W. Bush's two years with a Democratic Congress or the Watergate-era 649 laws.
Congress hasn't been around Washington very much of the time. Lawmakers have been in session about 220 days in the past two years of Tuesday-to-Thursday afternoon workweeks that would prompt an avalanche of attendance demerits.
Still, Americans will reward this level of performance, perhaps rivaling only A-Rod's in baseball's postseason, by giving their senators and House members another six- or two-year term at a salary of $174,000 a year.
The re-election percentage for House incumbents in the modern era - 1964 to 2010 - has rarely dipped below 80 percent, even in "wave" election years when the president saw members of his party sent packing, such as Bill Clinton in 1994 (52 House seats lost), George W. Bush in 2006 (30 seats lost) and Barack Obama in 2010 (63 seats lost).
Senate re-election hasn't always been as sure a thing. In 1980, when Republican Ronald Reagan ousted Democratic President Jimmy Carter from the White House, nine Senate incumbents fell and the re-election percentage for incumbents fell to 55 percent. Two years later, however, it was back up to 93 percent.
Tim Storey, an elections analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures, cites post-Census redistricting in which both Republicans and Democrats shore up incumbents and create a significant number of safe, non-competitive House districts.
But Storey points out that the district boundaries reflect a geographical and cultural reality: The United States is a nation of clusters.
"It takes a real quick look at voting patterns geographically to realize that we are very sort of clustered in heavily partisan ways," Storey said. "And so when you start drawing maps, many of these districts, you can't unless you extraordinarily contort the lines, you're always going to have some number of districts, a large number, that are heavily Republican and heavily Democratic. So that is the nature of a geographic dispersion along party lines."
Storey said people decide where to live for a variety of reasons, but the conventional view still stands - rural America is predominantly Republican and urban America is strongly Democratic. The suburbs provide some intersection of the two, and that line moves in and out depending on the election. Other factors come into play, too. The 1965 Voting Rights Act limits what nine states can do in drawing up new districts, to ensure that minorities are represented in Congress.
Just being in office helps a candidate a lot. Incumbents typically have a considerable advantage in raising money, making it difficult for challengers to unseat them.
The result is that next week, despite the public's frustration, Americans won't be sending many incumbents to the want ads or unemployment offices.
That likelihood leaves some people in the world of business and human resources scratching their heads. Think about George Clooney's job-firing character in the 2009 film "Up in the Air" unable to tell members of Congress they're out of a job.
Vic Tanon, the self-described chief simplicity officer for Emplicity, a human resources outsourcing company based in Irvine, Calif., said his firm consults with companies of 20 to 50 employees, the kind that members of Congress repeatedly talk about when they talk about job growth.
"In what you call a small business there isn't a lot of room for keeping, let alone hiring, people that are not delivering results. There's just not a lot of room," Tanon said. "When you get into larger work places, it's easier for people to hide."
Tanon said small businesses have to worry about their own existence.
"They need results. They look directly to their people and their resources to get those results and when they're not, to remain competitive, we need to write up those employees, put them on a PIP - a performance improvement plan - document that. And if they don't meet the PIP, I'm sorry, but we will have to free them to the economy," he said.
Burton Goldfield, president and chief executive officer of TriNet, a San Leandro, Calif., firm that provides health care plans and guidance on hiring and firing, like Clooney's character, sees parallels between Congress and business.
"The results aren't there," Goldfield said. "Now that doesn't mean that you fire them, but if they're not going to acknowledge that the results aren't there, then you're pretty much done. If I'm counseling an employee, and they're not willing to own up to the results, the chances of them surviving in that role are near zero."


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Diabetes in Children: Food Issues at School
Topic Overview
New challenges emerge when your child with diabetes begins school. Starting a good communication system with key people at the school can help make this transition a smooth one. It's helpful to schedule a conference with school personnel—principal, teachers, coaches, bus driver, school nurse, and lunchroom workers—after your child is first diagnosed. Do this again at the beginning of each school year.
Your child needs to always have available the supplies for doing a blood sugar test . If possible, the school nurse will have these supplies available also.
Food issues
Snacks, school lunches, and party food are issues that need to be addressed before your child starts school.
If your child takes insulin, his or her teacher needs to understand why snacks are so important. Explain how snacks prevent low blood sugar. Teachers should know that snacks should never be withheld or delayed. Provide details on when your child needs snacks—for example, during the day and either before, during, or after exercise.
Your child can have regular school lunches. If there are many items to choose from, your child needs to understand the meal plan thoroughly to make the best choices. Ask to be informed in advance if meals will be delayed because of special school activities, such as parties or trips, so that your child's insulin or snack schedule can be adjusted accordingly to prevent a low blood sugar episode.
Treatment plan
A treatment plan should list:
- When blood sugar should be checked and insulin given.
- When meals and snacks should be given.
- Preferred snack and party foods.
- Your child's usual symptoms of low and high blood sugar (hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia).
- Preferred treatment for hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia and when to notify parents.
- Emergency contact numbers, including parents and health professionals.
The plan should specify how your child's needs are taken care of and which member of the school staff is responsible for implementing the plan. Your child may need an emergency glucagon shot if he or she is having an episode of low blood sugar. Because of this, the school must select a person in advance to give the glucagon. Your child can then have treatment without delay.
A diabetes educator can help you make a treatment plan for your child. Update the plan each school year.
Preventing hypoglycemia
For children who take insulin, low blood sugar can result from additional exercise or not enough food, as well as from too much insulin. Have your child carry a quick-acting source of carbohydrate, such as glucose tablets, glucose gel, or juice, to be used in case of a low blood sugar episode.
Make sure your child can identify and treat symptoms of low blood sugar, or ask a teacher for help. Also, have your child carry snack foods, such as pretzels, snack crackers, or a sandwich, to cover unplanned activity or delayed meals. It's a good idea to ask your child's teacher to keep one or more of these items in his or her desk.
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