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Skip to comments.Movie: The Help -- designed to incite violence
Posted on 08/22/2011 6:05:46 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
This movie, "The Help" has been written, filmed and distributed with the sole purpose of inciting violence at a politically fragil time in this country. Yes, some of the events in the movie occurred, but it is nowhere representative of society as a whole.
As a matter of fact, the historical background of a lot of leading Democrats would tie directly to this film, but getting the general public to notice that at this time would be futile. Some unbelievably emotional scenes exist in this movie to denigrate white society to the fullest.
I can not believe the timing of the release of this film. The primary "evil" white woman character could very easily be a young Nancy Pelosi. Whoever has decided to release such a film at this time into a politically-charged environment bears a LOT of responsibility for the effects.
They had a good editor who saw the potential of the book when others couldn't. She saw the author's gift and made a masterpiece out of the book. And don't discount the work of the copyeditors. This book was just about flawless, making it extremely easy to read. Book publishing is doing well these days because of such talented people, among other factors.
I hear you. The people that see all color and it's dividing lines are Democrats. It is sad how the liberals have skewed reality. They say the greatest manipulation is to accuse others of what one is themselves doing. This is the great case of the liberals. Sadly many have listened to their lying dribble.
If you know a (or more) great editor(s) please, please send me their info. :).
I am sure the author would love what you said that about hearing the dialects and accents. She said for her the cadences of the dialogue/dialect were so important to hear as she wrote them. She could hear them deep inside of her as she wrote. What a great perception you have to enjoyed that additional layer to the book withe the audio :).
Well it is tough to know as all the names have been changed :). We don't want anyone to get sued now do we? Lol. Yes. She is not yet done with the south. So who knows if a character or two may pop up again along the way . :). Doubtful her next book but maybe the one after. Sometime subject matter doesn't fully allow for full disclosure though.
Thank you so very much for sharing this story. Yours is such a great example of the mutual help that was given and the responsibility that was undertaken for 'the help' for the dedicated and loving work they provided for the family.
They were not family, but the responsibility did fall upon the families to provide fully for them for their work and service. This is something on both sides that is often not discussed or honored. Appreciate so much your story.
I was born in the late 40s and I grew up in New Orleans and Florida. We always had "help" and so did most of the families of our friends and family. We weren't nasty or snobby to them and anyone who was ever in our employ was treated well and paid well. No areas of the house was off limits.
The lady to whom I was the closest and the one who worked for us the longest came when I was about four years old and was with us until I was twenty one. She was truly a part of the family. When I was nine and my father died, she cried with us at his funeral and many years later, when she died prematurely, my mom and I cried at her's. She was a perfect fit for our family in every way.
I haven't seen the movie yet, but I plan to do so.
Exactly, and IMHO our best counter is the truth.All we have to do is tell what is actually going on,how the pendulum has swung and reasonable people will do reasonable things hopefully.
You got that exactly right.
Maybe they are trying to destroy the uppity TEA party by "nudging" them with a sharp elbow? Maybe they want to encourage flash mobs so that someone white decides to restore sanity by "discouraging" a flash mob with gunfire?
Nudge nudge
EDITORIAL: Obama: Whites need not apply
Liberals dont want our government to mirror our society
Several ways exist to humorously disperse a flash mob. If someone REALLY wanted to know how, they can PM me. :)
I shudder to think about how Obama loving ..now totally northernized Kathryn Stockett ..the darling of the Atlantic crowd actually treats where I grew up.
My grandfather was a contemporary of her grandfather's and I duck hunted at the Caldwell place in Sidon Miss for over a decade as a teen with her dad Robert.
I can tell you having being surrounded by black help too as a boy that we did not treat our help that way at all and I doubt Robert Sr or Jr did either.
She makes a big deal about separate staff bathrooms and dishes...anyone here every been in a Manhattan mansion...I have...same thing...The Biltmore..same thing...Newport...same thing. Same thing about it's so awful to call them maids or help...geezuss how silly...I guess housekeeper is so much sweeter and all..like stewardess versus flight attendant..same job.
We have folks who come clean out house every two weeks...we have nothing for staff like that but were it a huge house it might come with it.
Kathryn Stockett moved to New York with serious issues with mom and dad who divorced and her brother who finds her a cultural traitor and wrote a book she thought would endear her to her new world and it worked.
I have read enough of the book to know it's just another "bad South" piece of tripe meant to make folks feel morally superior.
Not sure how the movie is but I can only imagine...I have heard black political groups feel it's not damning of whites enough and makes black men look bad.
Whatever..I'm over it...you the think the Old South was bad...come to Jackson proper now and enjoy...check out how all is now so much better since evil white folks have been driven from power there. It's a veritable paradise over on Lynch street. or Delta Drive
Sorry...not your fault...I just take this one personally...an honest movie about the transition of the South the past 50 years would be refreshing but will never happen...you are either gonna get this crap or Black Snake Moan or some other tripe...Steel Magnolias..though a chick flick was non offensive except for casting Olympia Dukakis
I read an interview with Robert Jr (lawyer and retired real estate guy who was very gutsy visionary sort) about his daughter Kathryn and her book...he wondered how could she write with such knowledge about something she based 10 years before her birth and that after she spent almost 20 years in Manhattan that she was a New Yorker now and "not one of us anymore". When asked if he had her phone number, he said "no". Kathryn now lives in Atlanta with her maiden name married with one kid to some computer guy from up north..ironic the name thing..estranged but keeps the name. Her family was never Klan...that woulda been so stupid...no way...they were many social rungs above that..her grandfather may have joined the Citizen's Council...not sure..many rich men did.
One of the maids is suing Kathryn for using her as an inspiration with no credit and her brother..a lawyer..is supposedly behind it...bad blood there...in that family. I don't know her..she was child when I was a mid teen and up..but her dad was nice enough and I participated in their wagon rides they had in the fall and everyone knew who they were because they had owned all the bottomland in downtown Jackson and the Interstate and fairgrounds and state bldgs and hotels came in and made them rich...folks knew her parents were estranged and her mom was beautiful but spirited and ..hmmm..hard to keep home at night...it's not easy to say really..anyhow...The Help comes from that..it's complicated but it's just comes across to me as another denunciation of a way of life I grew up with written for a purpose and feeds right into folks who believe these myths...myths designed to make them feel superior in their homogeneous enclaves outside the south and relieve whatever misplaced guilt those in the South harbor..obviously not me.
Where I grew up...folks who were nasty to their help were frowned upon...and I never once heard of sexual harassment of a black maid...lord they were usually rotund and excellent cooks...ridiculous but hardly sex objects to anyone this side of Tallulah Bankhead
This is a post I have meant to write over this book...not directed at you as a flame naps. I though about doing a thread on it to rant.
Rich folks everywhere with serious staff have separate bathrooms and often kitchens too ...it's not a race thing.
It's just a separation especially if they are live ins and works better really...gives them their private quarters.
We did not have that but my grandfather did...but no one would refuse them food or water on the fine china.
I don't have illusions either...especially now. I know this...however bad it was then...black culture was intact...black illegitimacy was only 20%...black crime and corruption was negligible except on Farish streets on Saturday nites..and I could have my car break down any where and all the city was safe.
Today it has all fallen apart.
It's difficult to judge really how much better is progress. We were never truly segregated and now we are not fully integrated...Jackson has resegregated with richer blacks joining whites on the perimeter or in pockets of the Northeast holdouts.
Every year exponentially more whites murdered or raped etc by blacks than the total of all blacks killed during everything from Reconstruction thru Jim Crow
so what did we really gain?
a clearer conscience..mine was fine already after New York
or a larger black middle class that votes for entitlements after decades of pundits assuring us that once opportunity and education gave them this they would adopt out values
hell they shared our values more when they were oppressed.
I never thought it would turn out like this...it's a very mixed bag and the future is grim.
Right now my kinfolks who stayed in Clinton are trying to get out because they see where it's headed...down...they don't know whether to go to Raymond or Madison...maybe down below Terry...
helluva way to live....it's like South Africa..staying ahead of the blight
SIXTY? Wow. That's incredible. It might be the best novel I've read in a long time, and I read a lot.
I do believe we are in an outright propaganda war coming from Hollywood and the media. So many people simply do not get it.
Got to get proficient shooting with one hand while leaning on the walker with the other.
I don't know how anyone, except those she told about it, would have known she was connected in any way, had she not filed the complaint.
I always assumed the characters were based, somewhat, on maids that either the author, or someone she knows, had known.
Not ALL the white characters were racists, unless the movie was COMPLETELY different than the book, which, from what others have said, is not the case. Maybe you simply projected your own feelings onto the movie; you EXPECTED a film hating whitey, so that's what you saw.
Oh, that cannot be true. /s
It's been out for 2 weeks, no violence. I think you're reading into things.
Is that the standard? You have no claim if you're a nobody? Non-celebrities need not apply?
Since then I was informed that in the film, "The Help" the figure was drawn of a haughty, snooty upper class white female. It seems that if she did not like her servants, she fired them. Further to that, she spread rumours that they had stolen from her- a sort of "blacklist" no doubt.
If this is wrong, I stand to be corrected. In Orwell's 1984, a hate figure was created. Anyone who was wrongly accused of theft, knows the inner agony of that. The snooty woman is the usual "hate figure". Just the same as in the film "Edge of the City" (1957) with Poitier, Cassavetes and Warden. A white man played by Warden, was the most loathsome piece of human debris.
This is what the left does best. They portrayed William Jennings Bryan in the film about the Scopes trial, as a bible punching bigot. Which was likely a bunch of biased nonsense.
I knew you meant Billy Jack.
To the rest of your post it is spot on. We could probably post an endless list of movies where the left has held up a specific type (white, racist, snob etc), a specific situation (wealthy)as something to loathe; to hate; to ridicule. So many of these movies are exremely well and accomplish the goal of emotional manipulation and also to 'stigmitize' whatever the target is.
Look at the Civil Rights type movies. It's always unbridled hatred and visciousness by ALL whites. It's always implied that ALL whites were racist when nothing could be further from the truth.
Anyway, I used Billy Jack as an example because I can remember vividly the anger, not only in me but the entire threater audience (consisting of other teens and young 20 somethings). It was intentional manipulation on a mass scale.
Since seeing Billy Jack again (about 10 yrs ago), I saw just how poor the acting was and how cheaply it was made. But at the time of its release, it accomplished its goal of angering an already alienated generation.
My point is that her reputation wouldn't necessarily be harmed, because no one, other than her closest friends, would have known about her.
Yes, it was a snooty upper class white woman who caused the problems for the maid that she fired. I don't see a problem; there are snooty white women in the world who might do that even today. But in the book, there were other white women who weren't like her, so it's not a broad brush against all white people.
Same here.
In the north Atlanta suburb where we lived there was an outcry over the "maid bus" a special run that brought the maids to work and home every day. The black leadership of Atl said that it was racist because it benefited rich white people. However the maids came forward to defend the bus because they needed it to get to their JOBS. Jabbing at rich whitey was more important to the black leadership than employment for "their people".
But in the book, there were other white women who weren't like her, so it's not a broad brush against all white people.
Yes, absolutely agree with you.
Point was that I was trying to make, is that in these films there is always the one absolute nasty person who is white. At one time (to inject some humour here), I read a complaint by a black actor that he could not get a part to play an evil heavy. The black person got parts as almost a saintly persecuted or misunderstood individual. No doubt true to life at one time. Perhaps that is changing though.
We just got back from seeing the movie. It's as good as I thought it would be. LOVED Minnie; she reminded me of my cousin, Debbie. Hubby recognized some parts of his hometown, and we hope to check out some of the locales when we go for his 40th high school reunion later this year!
The abortion issue is I guess where I stray from most of y'all around here. Who is killing their babies? It ain't the conservatives, it is the mindless drones. If they want to slaughter their offspring, why should I try and stop them? It plays into my hands, politically.
I'm not Christian, so all those poor defenseless infants don't have the same meaning to me. I hate to be cold, but if the idiots want to kill their next generation, it is not a good thing but it doesn't break my heart. They will pay for those decisions when they meet their rewards in the afterlife. I don't agree with them that it is a right, but it ain't no skin off my neck.
None of my lib friends kill their fetuses, they bear them all into this life. There is a difference between somebody who is liberal and somebody who is a murderer of innocents. To me at least. The murderers will pay for what they have done. These are not my lib friends. These are convenience killers, the lives of what they have produced are no more to them than a half an hour under sedation.
My lib friends don't do stoopid stuff like that. They may agree with taxing the rich and the idiotic environazi agenda, but they don't kill their own seed.
For what it's worth.
I agree with you more than you know. And as always, my opinion is worth exactly what you paid for it.
I have just received a first hand account from my spouse about the book. She was quite informative about Minnie and her departing quickly before the lady of the house's husband came home . She will see the movie this Sunday with my daughter. It is nice to get your views on this. Any way things have improved vastly in these kind of situations. My spouse says it is a story about the abuse of power by one person.
Oprah has lots of white folks working for her. You will have to be patient with some of us. I will still stick to my original views however.
Free Republic great to have divergent opinions without getting upset at another opinion.
I loved the movie. It's about my hometown. I have known plenty of racist white people in my life. Family members. Teachers. Neighbors. (lived in a neighborhood with a neighborhood covenant—no selling of house to blacks. when someone broke the covenant in the early 1990s, the neighbors couldn't sell their houses fast enough.) I've also known plenty of people who treated everyone with dignity and respect no matter their skin color or physical condition. I am so thankful to have known those people.
Hubby and I went to see the movie and loved it. It's so funny to me to read the posts on Facebook of "society ladies" of today who look down on the "society ladies" of the 60s. But that has nothing to do with my point for this post. My family has been living outside of the deep South for some time. Daughter is attending school now at one of the major universities of the very same South. It was soooooo wonderful to take her "home" and to experience the good manners and hospitality of everyone we encountered. White, black, whoever were wonderful.
Well, the maids continued to be maids. And the children they raised grew up to attend private schools, Ole Miss, and to have children of their own who may or may not have been raised by maids. Those children also attended private schools and Ole Miss.
The black children attended schools via busing. The lucky ones were bused out of their neighborhoods to fancy white neighborhoods. The schools they attended quickly became a majority black because the white children were pulled out of public schools and put into private schools. You know, the black children had diseases and would leave those diseases on the toilets. /sarcasm Now Jackson is predominantly black because all of the monied persons have left the city to populate the surrounding towns/counties. There are similar stories in other areas of the country.
For the purposes of the story, she's right. Hilly is the "Queen Bee", and the ladies of the Junior League who want to be accepted by her, know they cross her at their peril. There's a definite societal stratification going on, not just a race thing, though that is most prevalent here, simply because all of the 'help' is black in early 60s Mississippi.
Conjecture on my part but since Stockett was the sister to the man Ablene worked for, she felt a fair enough group of people knew who the character in the book was about and it embarrassed her. I'm certainly not going to decide how many people have to know before one is sufficiently embarrassed to sue in court.
Wonderful, honest post.
Here is a black blogger who has no use for the book, its author, or the movie. he sees the movie as manipulative and exploitative:
The movie WAS political. It was about the laws that were active in the State of Mississippi at the time. Awful laws. Segragation laws, apparently based on hatred of the black-skinned person. The government was the lead dog on this, and the sheeply Democrats (and I presume others), were the actors on the stage. A stage play of hatred, and treating others as you would NOT treat a white person.
It was a ghastly film, about a horrid time in our history. I saw it last night, and wanted to walk out. Very painful.
I am *really* late in this post, but I am reading this book now, and thoroughly enjoying it.
What struck me about the dialect in the book, besides it being very well done, was the lack of outcry from liberals, labeling it racist.
Your friend is very talented. I look forward to reading more of her work in the future. :-)
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Notre Dame: all the better for Stanford.
Colorado (1-3, 1-0, 141)
Washington State (2-2, 0-1, 108)
Host Wazzu led 31-14 with just over seven minutes left before "Couging" it. Nick Kasa's 70-yard reception and Tony Jones' 84-yard run brought the Buffs to within 31-28. Washington State added a field goal, but Colorado quarterback Jordan Webb converted on a fourth-and-goal bootleg scramble in the final seconds to complete the comeback, 35-34. Washington State probably assured itself of a bowl-less December with the loss, as they'll be significant underdogs in their remaining games, starting with a visit Saturday from Oregon. Colorado hosts UCLA and Arizona State before a USC/Oregon/Stanford block.
Oregon State (2-0, 1-0, 31)
Oregon State won 27-20 in the Rose Bowl last weekend in a game surprisingly reflective of the final score. The offenses were average to good, Oregon State led narrowly throughout, and the Beavers used 122 rushing yards to help offset their two turnovers. UCLA's Brett Hundley (27 of 42, 372 yards) and OSU's Sean Mannion (24 of 35, 379 yards) each had good days, but UCLA could run for only 2.6 yards per carry and had just 25:24 of possession [Ed: and Johnathan Franklin was a Heisman contender before this game, how?].
If Oregon State can win in Tuscon this weekend, they could find themselves 7-0, as Washington State, BYU and Utah follow. Four of UCLA's next six are on the road, meanwhile, starting with visits to Colorado and Cal these next two weekends.
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"Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story" is a tale of life, love and loss. The Golf Channel documentary, based on the book by John Feinstein, premieres June 14 at 9 p.m. ET. It recounts the extraordinary relationship between one of history's greatest golfers, Tom Watson, and his longtime friend and caddy, Bruce Edwards.
In addition to revealing how Watson and Edwards' 30-year professional and personal partnership changed the perception of player and looper, the 90-minute documentary also tells the story of Edwards' life - how he found true love until his untimely and tragic death in 2004 due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease.
"Bruce Edwards, whose story may be unknown to many sports fans, was well-loved and respected in the world of golf," said Keith Allo, Golf Channel vice president of programming and original productions. "But even for those who've read the book, seeing this extraordinary story come to life on the screen is truly inspirational."
Those interviewed for the documentary include Watson, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Jim "Bones" Mackay (Phil Mickelson's caddy), Edwards' wife Marsha, family members, fellow caddies, friends and medical professionals. Each share fond memories of Bruce Edwards, his valor, kindness, and the vast legacy he has left to caddies, golfers and others beyond the world of golf.
"It's going to be clear what a wonderful, passionate person Bruce was, and still is in my mind," said Watson, when referring to what viewers will discover by watching the documentary. "What he gave to life is more than he ever got."
Edwards had the foresight to pursue caddying as a career when it had yet to be established as a viable profession. It took all the courage he could muster to approach Watson on a hot summer day in St. Louis in 1973, but his sheer love of the game gave him no other option. "First and foremost, Bruce Edwards was a caddy," said Watson. "He loved to be inside the ropes caddying for the pros."
Edwards would draw on that same courage, as well as his decades-long friendship with Watson as he faced the end of his first marriage, the challenges of the PGA Tour, and a disease that would not only take his life.
"I learned a lot of lessons from Bruce and Tom about friendship and loyalty," said Feinstein, who conducted the interviews for the documentary and helps introduce segments of the show. "A lot of people use those words, but those guys lived them."
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To the uninitiated, it sounds horrifying: Toddlers are medicated for ADHD!
To those who understand the range of physical symptoms—and physical risks—associated with ADHD, it sounds reasonable.
All the same, a friend writes to me, below, after the latest "click bait" from The New York Times' Alan Schwarz. The story is called "Thousands of Toddlers are Medicated for ADHD, Report Finds, Raising Worries."
My friend, who has ADHD and whose husband has ADHD, writes:
Wait…TODDLERS? That blows my mind. How could anyone even diagnose a toddler with ADHD? I took our 2-year-old to a story time thing at the library where the toddlers were expected—no lie—to sit nicely in one place and listen to songs and stories for over 30 minutes.
I managed to get him to do this somehow, but he had a total meltdown afterward, at which point I carried him home apologizing for not knowing what we were in for and subjecting him to such a developmentally inappropriate activity. He absolutely cannot sit still and be inattentive for any length of time, but my armchair diagnosis for that is "being a toddler." And that's with the knowledge that he has two ADHD parents.
Here is my response to my friend:
Yes, if a toddler were diagnosed and treated on that basis, that would be very wrong.
It's a very complex issue, though, and we cannot view ADHD solely through the reductionist lens of behavior. Nor can we assume we know the facts from reading Alan Schwarz's so-called reporting. Much was missing in that article.
Essentially, Schwarz showed up unannounced at a state-wide conference in Georgia. A CDC researcher presented unpublished data on Georgia children only. He took numbers compiled for Georgia and extrapolated them to the rest of the country. To say that this is a leap entirely unworthy of what used to be the "paper of record," The New York Times, is an understatement.
As for treating young children for ADHD, think about it: At its core, ADHD is about problematic dopamine transmission (an oversimplified explanation, but it will have to do for now). That might most obviously manifest in "behavior problems," but is not limited to that, especially in the more severe presentations and with co-existing conditions. In short, let's examine this with more logic than sensation.
Dopamine is not only the "reward" neurotransmitter. It also affects many important physiological processes, including those related to respiratory and cardiovascular function. (ADHD is associated with higher rates of enuresis and encopresis, asthma and allergies, and arrthymia.). It also controls motivation, movement, and emotional regulation.
Also, guess what? There are many sick children for whom ADHD is the least of their problems. This includes children with spina bifida and others. Each year, about 1,500 children are born in the U.S. with spina bifida alone, according to the CDC.
Hence, a two-part blog post, with this being Pt. I: The Truth Behind "10,000 Toddlers Medicated for ADHD" Report.
It's long, but I promise: It's worth it.
ADHD: A BioMedical Issue,
Not A "Behavior Problem"
The friend who made that comment has ADHD. So does her husband. She personally knows the benefits of ADHD medication. But when it comes to children, she has a blind spot.
It's understandable. There is so much that even well-educated people with ADHD fail to grasp about the condition, especially if they're not thinking of very sick children.
What the public largely fails to understand: ADHD involves so much more than one's school performance, behavior, inability to "conform to society," or whatever preconceived notion one harbors about the condition. ADHD also carries with it a risk of physiological adverse effects, and these can begin very early on.
It is clear that the The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Today Show, and other "news outlets" that glommed onto the 10,000 Toddlers meme are not interested in the medical reality of ADHD.
They have their own angle: Children with ADHD are "brats," and that's how their graphic designers illustrate the pieces, with photos of screaming, angry children. (I've used photos of a different type here.)
Betraying their lack of a background in science, they imply that all children that survive birth are somehow mentally healthy. As if the brain, that most vulnerable of organ, is protected from all that can befall heart, lungs, limbs, and every other organ.
Children with ADHD can be extremely impaired, and it is up to the evaluating physician as to how to proceed, not sports reporter Alan Schwarz—no matter how many Pulitzers he hopes to win with his "hard-hitting investigation." (Because, let's be honest; it's not compassion for sick children that's evident here; it's pandering to a largely science-illiterate reading public.)
The FDA acknowledges that sometimes stimulant medications can be used for young children, with these guidelines "Stimulant and Related Medications: Use in Pediatric Patients."
The Insatiable, Sleepless Toddler
For example, many toddlers and even babies with ADHD are chronically unhappy, about everything. Their distraught parents can do nothing right, because the problem is not on the outside but on the inside, in the neural pathways. I wrote in my book about some adults with ADHD being insatiable – there's never enough of anything to make them happy. So, think about the Insatiable Baby or the Insatiable Toddler.
This is no minor thing.
I've met babies whose ADHD makes them chronically unhappy, often crying, and they broke my heart. Imagine being a parent unable to console a child, despite your best efforts.
Moreover, sleep is so difficult for them. They awaken at the slightest noise, when they finally get to sleep (and that can be extremely difficult). They climb out of their cribs and become a danger to themselves. In the crib, they begin the lifelong sleep debt that will plague them for the rest of their lives. I've met adults who were these children.
This will come as news to some "attachment theorists": Some cannot sit still long enough to nurse. Moreover, they cannot direct their gaze long enough at their caregiver to form that all-important connection that uninformed critics are always yammering that the babies "need more than medication." What if some need both?
Their young lives are miserable, as anyone with a heart can clearly see. What kind of start in life is this? Who cannot be compassionate to such a child and want to understand how to help instead of inflicting the worst kind of ignorance on the child and family?
Only someone aiming for a Pulitzer, high blog ratings in GoogleAnalytics, or a spot on a talk show.
Could You Watch a Toddler Turn Blue—and Faint? Repeatedly?
Many moms of children with ADHD have told me of a "hyperactive" fetus, one constantly kicking. ADHD is also associated with a higher rate of prematurity. In other words, the neurobiology can make itself known early on.
Those babies on the far end of the ADHD spectrum can and often do grow up to be toddlers who will walk out the front door and into traffic, or crawl out of windows. And die or become maimed or brain-injured.
There are even toddlers whose emotional dysregulation is so severe they develop pediatric syncope—that is, they turn blue and faint. I've seen this; it is horrifying to feel so helpless when the child is so distressed.
There are other terms for it, including Expiratory Apnea. And while I was researching it for a friend—an incredibly attentive, empathic, loving, and patient mother—many mothers of children with ADHD reported to me the same phenomenon. Their physicians were clueless.
We know that dopamine is involved with adult sleep apnea, which is so common among adults with ADHD. Why would it not also affect newborns, toddlers, and young children?
A friend and her husband (who has severe ADHD, now well-managed) were grief-stricken when their newborn displayed what appeared to be sleep apnea. It simply stopped breathing. Who wouldn't be apoplectic? The parents weren't worried about the baby being naughty or not learning differential equations, Alan Schwarz. They were worried about him surviving!
No one is suggesting cavalierly giving neurostimulants to a newborn or baby for ADHD. Yet, guess what? Vulnerable babies are given dopamine (the neurotransmitter targeted by the stimulants) in the hospital! Consider this 2011 tidbit from Nature: Brains Breathe: Dopamine's Role in Preterm Infants.
A 2009 paper published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine reports that dopamine, widely used to maintain blood pressure in very preterm infants, facilitates flow-metabolism coupling in preterm brain. In other words, dopamine apparently aids in keeping preterm infants' cerebral oxygen demands in touch with cerebral blood flow.
No one seems to complain about other health interventions for young children—blood transfusions, surgeries to repair holes in the heart, etc.
Unfortunately, the stimulants often don't even work that well in young children, leaving them with little else.
The point is, dear public, ADHD is about more than "behavior." It can have very serious physiological effects. Blindly reacting to click-bait from The New York Times or some other self-promoter with an agenda is not helpful to anyone, especially children. And it's definitely not helpful to a compassionate, public-health-conscious public.
"They'll Grow Out Of It"
Typically, pediatricians didn't understand these issues when my friends presented them. They'd head pat and reassure, "The child will grow out of it."
But what actually can happens is that the behavior changes to a more developmentally appropriate expression of the same problem as the child grew.
In other words, the pre-verbal toddler who got so frustrated that he fainted becomes the verbal four-year-old who yells and screams in frustration—and on it goes up the developmental ladder. The pediatric syncope (fainting) didn't go away; it simply moved to a more advanced mode of expression.
Unfortunately, the ADHD diagnosis comes much later for many of these children, after so many bad habits and blows to self-esteem have taken root, even after illnesses such as allergies and asthma further circumscribe their lives.
But all it takes is one (more) sensationalistic story from The New York Times' Alan Schwarz, quoting low-level clinicians and publicity-hungry fringe players—and suddenly there is the SHOCKING story that 10,000 toddlers are being given ADHD medications.
10,000 is Only A Guesstimate
Yes, that 10,000 figure is only an estimate. Schwartz simply extrapolated to the nation the state-based figures provided by CDC official Susanna Visser.
Side story: This is at least the second time that Schwartz, a sports reporter who has no apparent life-science expertise, has acted in a dodgy and unorthodox manner by reporting an amateur analysis of the CDC data, and attempting to pass it off as as professionally parsed. Veteran journalist Paul Raeburn questioned the first occurrence at the M.I.T.Knight Science Journalism Center's Tracker ("peer review with science journalism") on April 3, 2013:
The story, by Alan Schwarz and Sarah Cohen with reporting contributed by Allison Kopicki, did not say that the figures came from an announcement or publication by the CDC. It said that the Times had "obtained the raw data from the agency and compiled the results" itself.
That's tricky. The CDC could make a mistake compiling and interpreting its own data; such things happen. But for my money, I'd rather have the CDC doing that than entrust the job to Schwarz and Cohen. Where did they get the data? What form was it in? What did they have to do to come up with the figures they report? Did they enlist a scientist from the CDC or elsewhere to check and validate their analysis?
We are not told. The first quote in the story comes from a Yale neurologist who says he is "floored" by the rise in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD. It's not a terribly insightful comment; I suspect most readers did not need an expert to tell them that the statistics were remarkable.
The story, published on March 31, now has a string of corrections appended to it. It picked up its first correction on April 1, another yesterday, and another one today. Each of the corrections fixes a misstatement concerning the statistics. If Schwarz had told us more about how he got that data and what it looked like, and if he'd brought in a scientist to help him analyze it, perhaps he would not have made those mistakes.
Back To The Main Story
Never mind the Times' known bias and skewed reporting. A host of traffic-hungry sites (The Today Show, The Daily Beast, Boston.com, and various bloggers) picked up the story and added their own purple prose. Readers across the Internet started grabbing their pitchforks, preparing to hunt down Big Pharma, the doctors doing the prescribing, the lazy parents wanting the "quick fix," and all the rest. Based on such misinformation. Talk about impulsivity.
Without any of these facts, without
knowing exactly how many young children
are diagnosed and treated
vis a vis the estimated prevalence,
without even knowing if the
treatment is working, we know
absolutely nothing at all.
That children on Medicaid were receiving the medication in question seemed to enrage readers the most. There was fervid blaming of "lazy" parents at the Times' insipid companion piece (the Motherlode column entitled "The New Inequality for Toddlers: Less Income; More Ritalin").
NYTimes columnist KJ Dell'Antonia, who writes about her children in a blog called "Raising Devils," hammered home the idea that these children were being "drugged" only because they were poor.
NYTimes' Blogger Dell'Antonia Questions Basis for ADHD
Neither Dell'Antonia nor the readers commenting (including a self-described pediatrician) seemed to understand one critical point: ADHD is a risk factor for poverty; these children might be suffering from the most severe ADHD symptoms, compounded by their parents' ADHD and other risk factor such as substance abuse disorders.
Understanding this context would require the kind of sophistication not apparently accessible to bloggers such as Dell'Antonia, who writes: "Particularly given that there is still a debate among practitioners and researchers regarding whether ADHD has a biological basis, or is a label given to a collection of symptoms."
With so many good journalists out of work, how do uneducated people like this get hired?
Not One News Report Has Examined the Data
You can download Visser's Georgia presentation here.
Absolutely nothing seems publicly known about what kind and how much medication these alleged children are receiving, and what other services or interventions. Until the CDC decides to share with the tax-paying public, consider these Medicaid enrollment figures from a factsheet on Medicaid published by the American Academy of Pediatrics:
- 30.6M infants and children through age 18 (that represents 50.2% of all Medicaid enrollees, 38.9% of all US children through age 18)
- 2.4M infants (4.0% of all Medicaid enrollees; 56.6% of all US infants)
In light of these huge numbers, 10,000 children being treated medically for ADHD—as having ADHD severe enough to merit treatment at a younger-than-average age—no longer seems so "outrageous," as one headline put it. Does it?
We know absolutely nothing at all on this topic without knowing critical facts, including:
- How many children are diagnosed and treated vis a vis the estimated prevalence?
- For how many children is the treatment working?
- How many of these children have other health conditions that are highly associated with ADHD, including neural tube defects such as spina bifida?
Yet, the online world is bursting at the seams with the scurrilous headlines. This is what happens when reckless papers and other news outlets self-medicate with provocation, without thinking of consequences.
Newsflash: ADHD Can Create Entrenched Poverty
Left unaddressed over the generations, ADHD can result in miserably entrenched poverty, substance abuse, and more. In other words, the people suffering the most adverse affects of ADHD are those at the lower rungs of society; neurogenetic nature and environmental nurture compound the trauma generation after generation.
Yes, absolutely. No question. Our economic structure is further oppressing these people. Headstart programs have been cut, when they've been shown to be beneficial and cost-effective, not to mention humane. And all the rest.
But the fact remains: Even with better circumstances, many of these young children will still have ADHD, their parents will have it, and most likely their grandparents, too. No matter how many "hands up" they are given, a certain percentage will be unlikely to make good use of opportunities until their ADHD and commonly co-existing conditions are managed. This is as true for highly impaired children in the lower rungs of the socioeconomic strata as well as the highest rungs.
The Bottom Line Is This:
There are legitimate reasons for treating very young children medically for ADHD, and we simply do not know the particulars behind this story—how many children at what ages are being medically treated and for what reason. We only have Schwarz's cherry-picked report and intended, ensuing hysteria.
The only thing we know for sure is this: Our most disadvantaged people who have ADHD deserve comprehensive help, including screening the parents and providing treatment for them, too—the "genetic donors"—so they can best help their child and break the generational cycle.
They also deserve that you, me, and the powers that be slow down hair-trigger emotions and make a sincere attempt to comprehend what's happening instead of making shamefully lame judgments and Olympic-sized leaps to conclusion that lead only to more disastrous consequences.
Mostly, they and we need news outlets who care more about these people than they do their own profits and fame—and reporters who have at some point in their lives taken a biology class.
Alan Schwarz would not dare publicly bully children born with heart defects, malformed lungs and limbs, vision problems, diabetes type I, hemophilia, or asthma. Yet, when it comes to the most vulnerable, delicate organ of all—the brain—and the most documented psychiatric condition of childhood—ADHD—he finds it fair game. Alan, please go back to the sports deck. Your detached flair with "statistics" would be less harmful there.
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Boardman senior Ryan Bailey is the only area Division I swimmer who does not have to wait for the other district results.
"It's a pretty nice feeling that I'm going for sure," Bailey said.
Bailey, who is heading to the United States Naval Academy this fall, won the Division I 100-yard butterfly district title Saturday at Cleveland State University in a time of 49.32. Bailey won handily over second-place Grant Pinchot of Solon (51.16).
"I got out to a really fast start," Bailey said. "It was one of my fastest splits in the 100 butterfly. I felt pretty good until the last 15 yards and I started to hurt. Hopefully with another week of rest I can get a lot stronger and faster.
"Overall, I was happy with my performance. I hit my walls pretty well and happy with my stroke."
Bailey took third in the 100 breaststroke (57.99) but should get an at-large bid.
Like Bailey in the 100 breaststroke, Warren G. Harding has to wait, but the Raiders might have some representation at next weekend's Division I state meet at C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton.
WGH sophomores Emily Thirion and Dylan Thirion may advance as one of the many at-large bids around the state.
The top two in each district event automatically advance, while the top 34 at-large girls in Division I along with the top 14 at-large relays advance from each of the state's districts. Those are from those swimmers or relays that didn't automatically qualify out of their respective district. The top 24 at-large swimmers and top 14 at-large relays advance for the Division I boys. Those at-large bids are slated to be announced sometime today.
Dylan clocked a 1:44.82 for fourth in the 200 freestyle and 47.42 for sixth in the 100 freestyle.
WGH coach Steve Lukco said Dylan shaved more than a second off both of his times.
As for Emily, she was fourth in the 100 butterfly (58.04) and 100 breaststroke (1:05.66).
"Both of them swam awesome today," Lukco said.
Dylan has a good shot for an at-large bid in the 200, but probably not the 100. Emily's breaststroke should get to Canton and quite possibly her butterfly as well.
Emily had a reprieve from last year's districts where she didn't make it to state.
"Both times were school records," Lukco said. "She was happy to swim fast. I think last year's nerves helped out this year."
WGH's 200-medley relay of Dylan, senior Sam Angelo, freshman Mike Miller and junior Zackary Williams doesn't look like it will make an at-large bid after finishing sixth (1:40.42).
"Looking for a little faster time," Lukco said. "We didn't drop as much as we thought we could. Everyone swam well. We dropped 2 seconds, but we wanted to drop 3 to be sure."
Meanwhile, Howland's Aimee Gysegem was fourth in the 500 freestyle (5:06.11) and might have a shot of getting to state in that event. She has a very outside shot of making it in the 200 freestyle, where she took sixth (1:55.02).
As for Boardman, the girls 200 freestyle relay took sixth, while the 400 freestyle relay was fifth. The 200 freestyle relay of Brooke Bailey, Jordyn Markovitch, Jessica Hilk and Colleen Manning clocked 1:40.55, while the 400 team of the same four girls put up a time of 3:39.57.
Brooke Bailey was fifth in the 100 butterfly (58.93).
"Right now, I'm focused on checking out all the results for the girls relays," Ryan Bailey said. "Hopefully a couple of them can go."


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Well, we've come to the end of another CSS title. I want to thank you for watching CSS: Page Layouts, and I hope you've become inspired to go out and begin tackling your own layouts and designs. Before you go, I wanted to leave you with a few resources that I think will allow you to dig deeper into CSS layouts and become more productive when writing your own styles. If you want to follow along with me with this, you can open up the additional_resources.htm file. You will find that in Chapter_09 directory, in the 09_01 folder. So the first link that I have on the page here is one that you've probably seen before if you've watched any of my CSS titles, and that is the CSS Current Work Page.
This is a great page where you can keep track of what's going on with CSS as well as find links to the various CSS specifications and modules. It really is, if I had to say that CSS has a homepage on the web, I'd say that this is it. So this is definitely a page that every single web designer should have bookmarked. Now the next resource that I wanted to show you guys is the YUI Grids System. Earlier in the title, I showed you the 960 Grid System. The YUI 2 Grids CSS System is massive. It's a really flexible grid layout system and as you can see, it's designed for preset fixed-width layouts as well as flexible layouts.
There really is a lot to this. I'm not a huge proponent of using grids, to be honest with you. I don't use them in my own layout, and I don't say, hey, if you're going to do page design, you need to use a grid system. However, they are extremely educational. So if you were to download this framework and begin working with it, if you begin reading through the documentation, you're going to learn a lot about what it takes to create really flexible cross-browser-compliant layouts. So this is a fantastic resource. There is a lot of documentation on this site, and it's something that I think you can definitely benefit from digging into.
Now the next resource I want to show you guys is the Mediaqueri.es site. Now Mediaqueri.es is a gallery site that showcases sites that are powered by CSS media queries. So if you're looking to get inspired about responsive design, this is definitely a gallery you want to spend some time in. There are a lot of really high-quality sites here, and you can not only dig through these sites, check them out, and look into their CSS, but you can also see how they've solved problems like taking navigation from desktop into the mobile space, and how they deal with responsive images and fluid grids and things like that.
So this is a really neat resource to dive into and check out how some other people are working with media queries. I also have a link to an article in Six Revisions called "Understanding the Elements of Responsive Design." Now this is a fantastic article by Jason Gross about responsive design and all of the different features of it, sort of what encompasses and what makes up responsive design. So this is a great primer to read a little bit more about what responsive design is, and in terms of what your responsibilities is as a designer, and what factors you're going need to consider while building responsive designs.
Next up, I wanted to take you out the modernizr. Again, if you have watched a lot of my titles, this is probably another resource that you've seen before. modernizr is just an absolutely indispensable JavaScript library for anybody using media queries or CSS3 features or some of the new HTML features. It's a lightweight JavaScript library that helps detect whether or not the user agent that is visiting your site support specific features, and then you can write or modify your styles based on whether they support it or not.
So it helps make all of your responsive design layouts sort of a cross-browser- compatible with Internet Explorer version 6 through 8. It doesn't take much to implement. It's one line of code. It's a very small library. So the Respond.js is another tool that you should have if you're thinking about doing responsive design. Now, speaking of responsive design, Jeremy Palford put online these responsive design sketch sheets. I mentioned earlier in the title how big of a fan I'm of sketching. I love to sketch, and what's really cool about these sketches that he created, the sheets themselves are divided into different screen sizes, so you can start blocking out layouts and wireframes and then sort of taking them down to smaller sizes and working out the relationship between your elements on the page way before you get into either creating any code or any type of mockup.
So these sheets are very handy. You can just print them out yourself, and they're a great resource to have on hand when you're designing for multiple screens. Another great resource for responsive design is the Filament Group's Responsive-Images solution. So this is sort of a combination of an htaccess file and some JavaScript, and what it will help you do is control when larger versus smaller images are served to devices. So instead of just letting the CSS handle that, for example, you could have smaller images that are served to mobile devices, larger images that are served to the desktop. And this is just one of the many solutions out there for responsive images, but I like this solution because it's particularly lightweight.
Finally, of course, we have lynda.com. To continue learning CSS, I recommend checking out all of the other CSS-related titles at the lynda.com Online Training Library, including my own. We have a variety of CSS courses structured around both the authoring tools like Dreamweaver and general concepts, such as the course that you just watched, and this library continues to grow every single day. Now if you started here, I actually recommend going back and checking out the CSS Fundamentals and the CSSL Core Concepts course, as well as keeping an eye out for all of the other courses in our CSS series, which this is one of them. Just look for the title to have CSS in it, a colon, and then the course name.
We will continue to add new courses in the CSS series, so be sure to check the library often for our new releases. Once again, thanks so much for watching, and I will see you in my next title.
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March 29, 2012, 12:15 AM
I'm looking for a good IWB holster , I want something that will keep my 1911 from taking the hide off my side. I've looked at king tuck and a few others, the 100 professional... Ideas?
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I like winged holsters for heavy guns. They spread the weight with the two spaced clips/loops. Crossbreed ST (or clone) and Milt Sparks VMII (or clone).
p.s. I've owned both. I sold the MS. Great rig; just more holster than I needed and I wanted the money more. I own 2 CBSTs (one for a 1911) and got both secondhand for <2/3 the price I sold the MS for. Nothing fancy, but they get the job done for big and/or heavy guns. IMO, the CBST too much rig for smaller and lighter guns and I opt for simple, low profile single "clip" type holsers here. And, as noted, a thick and heavy gun belt is as important as a good holster. With a good belt more holster options open up in terms of stability, retention and weight distribution.
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March 29, 2012, 12:54 AM
coalman, I was looking at the crossbreeds tonight actually! I usually wear a shoulder rig and a jacket, but with the heat coming on here I wanted to lose the jacket. I'm thinking the crossbreeds might just be the trick! Thanks!
March 29, 2012, 06:30 AM
Milt Sparks, VMII or their new HR-LTD which is basically a thin VMII with all the benefits and the best features.
It is the only holster I can literally sleep with the gun in it. I have them for all my guns, several for 1911 government, Commander and EMP. HK's P30, HK45 & 45c, Beretta 92 & Vertec, SIG 228 & 226 and several more I can't think of at the moment.
Simply the best. The wait and price are more than worth it. I gave one as a birthday present to a budy that only shoots Glocks 19's. Since I gave it to him, it is the only IWB holster he will wear.
I do own many of the other popular holsters, but after after 58 years of shooting, Milt Sparks is the best I have found. I used to like Alessi too, but Lou is no longer with us, and I have not found his shop as easy to work with anymore.
Don't forget, the belt is almost more important than the holster. I have been using Wilderness Tactical belts for almost 30 years now. The 5 stitch.
Good luck.
March 30, 2012, 10:24 AM
Been carrying a Sig C3 in a taurisholsters IWB that was made with a swivel. Seems to work fine for me.
March 30, 2012, 02:45 PM
March 30, 2012, 03:07 PM
Milt Sparks VMII most comfortable around. Wait is long, but worth it.
March 30, 2012, 03:11 PM
Very pleased with my Parker. Good price, short wait, and comfortable.
hariph creek
March 30, 2012, 07:00 PM
RKBA makes a good horsehide, with offset loops. Great price and turn around.
March 30, 2012, 07:10 PM
Tucker "Answer"
April 2, 2012, 09:02 AM
Good Crossbreed copy, also a member here at THR.
April 2, 2012, 09:25 AM
The High Noon line of holsters have always worked well for me; they are affordable, exhibit great care in manufacturing and craftsmanship, and are generally often ready to ship the day that you place the order.
April 2, 2012, 10:14 AM
Good Crossbreed copy, also a member here at THR.
I'll second that. I have the cheapest option because I don't care for the stiffer leather. I can wear it at 3 o'clock with the thinner backing if I so choose. Perfectly comfortable for all day carry. I've even used it in IDPA with a glock 34. I was kind of surprised at how well it concealed and continued wearing the long slide for a few days.
I also like to keep a raven phantom knock off around.
April 3, 2012, 11:12 PM
Good Crossbreed copy, also a member here at THR.
My Theis Holster is great. I was having issues finding a good IWB for a SR40c but Tommy had them. Took 4 weeks to get it in but it was well worth the wait.
April 7, 2012, 04:42 PM
Peter M. Eick
April 8, 2012, 06:51 AM
Another tip of the hat to the VMII or Versamax II. It works really well with heavy full sized guns.
April 8, 2012, 07:21 AM
Ray Cory has been crafting holsters, belts and accessories for 40 years.
I have three belts and 5 holsters. Very pleased with all of them. 2-3 week wait.
I also have the Milt Sparks Summer Special II. Another very nice holster.
Usually Brownells has them in stock.
April 8, 2012, 07:44 AM
Good Crossbreed copy, also a member here at THR.
I'll third it. Have one for 1911 and one for 4"GP-100. Currently have one on order for MP-9. Of course Tommy's holsters don't protect you from Vampires. :)...But they are reasonably priced.
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Around the Block
by Dayna Stern
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After a full month of serious carb, lard and sugar loading, I finally felt up to the task. My plan was to ride my purple Novarra bicycle completely around the block.
I realized that this was a serious challenge, especially given my advanced age, but with sufficient training and mental acuity I was confident in my abilities.
Carefully I packed a water bottle, checked my tires and loaded my cell phone into my panier. The sky was a deep crystal blue, with no rain was forecast.
I knew that my opportunity had arrived. My calves pulsated, my thunderous thighs begged for a chance to soar. The time had arrived. I left the house at 5:10 pm. By 5:15 I had arrived at the top of the driveway, full of middle-aged vigor. Yes, the scree was loose and I nearly lost my footing a few times, but the air was clear, the wind was in my helmet and I was more focused than I'd ever been in my life. I was exhilarated to finally be on the road!
Mounting my bike at the mailbox, I suddenly became aware of all that surrounded me. The BMWs and Suburbans whizzed by, the taste of salt and sweat, the rotting crow on the road prodded me to perform. I was overwhelmed with joy as I raced past the mailboxes, swing sets, barking dogs. I knew that today was the day to fulfill this mission, and this mission alone.
Endorphins quickly kicked in as I chuckled joyously down the road. It was nearly 5:22 by the time I reached the entrance to Tuscany.
Straining from the exertion, I downshifted and slowly began the assent. Past houses with new roofs, past "For Sale" signs I pumped frantically through a series of switchbacks. I began perspiring, looking forward to an opportunity to shed my "Cows" sweatshirt. The sweat was streaming down my forehead, soaking my pink jog-bra.
Up, up I climbed ‹ through Tuscany, through the Hedges, passing workers who stopped to gaze at me in my moment of triumph. The final pitch lay ahead: the tiny hill leading to Lake of the Woods. With the sun pounding on my back, I stopped for a sip of water, a piece of almond roca and a call to my broker to check on earnings' reports. Newly fortified, I down shifted again for the final assault.
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There were no birds, no natural sounds up there, just the beating of my lonesome heart muscle. The beauty caused me to weep the salty tears of ecstasy!
The Summit! I finally made it to the south entrance of Lake of the Woods!
It was 5:37 p.m., plenty of time to relax, enjoy the majestic view, take pictures, sign the book and make it down before dark. Exhausted but elated, I sat down on the sidewalk to scarf down a few Milky Way bars before wearily remounting.
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|Sunday, 1 February 2004
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LTTE critical of Govt. handling of peace process
by S. Selvakumar
The LTTE delegation headed by Political Wing leader S.P. Thamilchelvan criticised the UNF government's handling of the now stalled peace process during his talks with a high powered Norwegian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Jan Peterson.
"The government failed to honour the clauses of the ceasefire agreement and did not stick to the consensus reached on a wide range of subjects during the peace negotiations," Thamilchelvan charged.
The talks were held in Oslo on Thursday and the Norwegian team was headed by Foreign Minister Jan Peterson and included Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgessen Colombo envoy Hans Brattskar and Special Envoy Erik Solheim.Thamilchelvan further said that the political crisis in the South has created a suspicion among the Tamils and that since independence, Tamil community has suffered setback after setback and only bitter memories remain. "When one party comes forward to settle the ethnic issue, the other party opposes it" he further prevailed upon the Norwegian delegation.
According to reports from Oslo, the crux of his address to the Norwegian team was that the Tamil community cannot wait until the political crisis in the South is settled and a solution to the ethnic problem which he described as long drawn battles is found. But what the Tamil people wanted was immediate humanitarian aid. "This aid cannot be postponed any further," he said.
In the talks with the LTTE delegation currently on a tour of Europe high ranking officials of the Norwegian Humanitarian Aid also participated. "Only the guns are silent in the North and the East but the suffering of the people remain the same as during the past 20 years.
Only people in the South of the country are enjoying the peace dividend", he further told the delegation. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgessen has said that Norway appealed to the donor nations not to curtail aid to Sri Lanka despite the political crisis in the South and the stalled peace process. "There is a ceasefire which means the peace process is still in place but dormant.
For the peace process to get activated donor countries must provide for Sri Lanka's economic development" Helgessen further said.
The European Union, America, Japan and Norway will meet in Washington on February 17 to review the economic aid pledged to Sri Lanka at the Tokyo donor parley.
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The Human Trafficking Assessment Tool
The ABA Rule of Law Initiative's (ABA ROLI's) Human Trafficking Assessment Tool (HTAT) measures a country's de jure and de facto compliance with the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (UN Trafficking Protocol) that supplements the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime.
The HTAT analyzes national anti-trafficking laws and government efforts to combat trafficking against the obligations set forth in the Protocol and its host Convention. In addition to international standards, the HTAT references existing regional instruments to combat trafficking, highlights non-governmental organization (NGO) best practices, and includes pertinent compliance and non-compliance examples from around the world.
Trafficking in persons is one of the most prevalent crimes today involving severe human rights violations. By creating the HTAT, the ABA ROLI has joined the global campaign to encourage states to criminalize human trafficking, prosecute human traffickers, protect victims, and develop measures to prevent this phenomenon from occurring.
The HTAT serves as a comprehensive resource on human trafficking and can be used to:
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