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Specifying a service for the diagnosis and management of ADHD in adults
Service components
The key components of a service for the diagnosis and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults and young people in transition are:
- the transition of young people with ADHD into adult services
- appropriate referral, diagnosis and management of adults with ADHD
- developing a high-quality service for the diagnosis and management of ADHD in adults and young people in transition.
- the organisation and planning of services.
The transition of young people with ADHD into adult services
The NICE clinical guideline CG72 on ADHD states that young people with ADHD receiving treatment and care from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) or paediatric services should normally be transferred to adult services if they continue to have significant symptoms of ADHD, or coexisting conditions that require treatment. Transition should be planned in advance by both referring and receiving services. An assessment at school-leaving age to establish the need for continuing treatment into adulthood should be carried out.
Flexibility in the timing of transition is important. The precise timing of arrangements may vary locally but should usually be completed by the time the young person is 18 years old.
Transition arrangements should normally include:
- details of the anticipated treatment and services that the young person will require
- consideration of a formal meeting involving CAMHS and/or paediatrics and adult psychiatric services, and provision of full information about adult services to the young person
- the use of the care programme approach as an aid to transfer between services for young people aged 16 years and older
- the involvement of the young person, and when appropriate the parent or carer, in the planning.
Transition: getting it right for young people describes best practice for the care of young people in transition between CAMHS or paediatric services and adult services. This guidance notes that well-planned transition improves clinical, educational and social outcomes and requires accountability, cooperation and partnership working across a wide range of professionals and organisations.
Appropriate referral, diagnosis and management of adults with ADHD
The diagnosis and general management of ADHD is described in detail in NICE clinical guideline CG72 on ADHD. It is important to ensure that people with symptoms suggestive of ADHD are referred for appropriate assessment, diagnosis and treatment in order to improve the recognition and management of ADHD in adults, and to reduce the risk of potentially vulnerable young people lacking access to appropriate treatment and services.
The NICE clinical guideline CG72 on ADHD recommends that:
- Adults presenting with symptoms of ADHD in primary care or general adult psychiatric services, who do not have a childhood diagnosis of ADHD, should be referred for assessment by a mental health specialist trained in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD, where there is evidence of typical manifestations of ADHD (hyperactivity/impulsivity and/or inattention) that:
- began during childhood and have persisted throughout life
- are not explained by other psychiatric diagnoses (although there may be other coexisting psychiatric conditions)
- have resulted in or are associated with moderate or severe psychological, social and/or educational or occupational impairment. - Adults who have previously been treated for ADHD as children or young people and present with symptoms suggestive of continuing ADHD should be referred to general adult psychiatric services for assessment. The symptoms should be associated with at least moderate or severe psychological and/or social or educational or occupational impairment.
- A diagnosis of ADHD should only be made by a specialist psychiatrist, paediatrician or other appropriately qualified health care professional with training and expertise in the diagnosis of ADHD.
The details of the diagnosis are described in the NICE clinical guideline CG72 on ADHD. This guideline also notes that drug treatment for adults should:
- be the first-line treatment unless the person prefers psychological treatment
- be started under the guidance of a psychiatrist, nurse prescriber specialising in ADHD or other clinical prescriber with training in ADHD diagnosis and management
- always form part of a comprehensive treatment programme that addresses psychological, behavioural and educational or occupational needs
- be prescribed by an appropriately qualified healthcare professional with expertise in managing both ADHD and substance misuse for adults who also misuse substances.
Developing a high-quality service for the diagnosis and management of ADHD in adults and young people in transition
NICE clinical guideline CG72 on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder recommends that:
- trusts should ensure that specialist ADHD teams for children, young people and adults jointly develop age-appropriate training programmes for the diagnosis and management of ADHD for mental health, paediatric, social care, education, forensic and primary care providers and other professionals who have contact with people with ADHD
- child and adult psychiatrists, paediatricians, and other child and adult mental health professionals (including those working in forensic services) should undertake training so that they are able to diagnose ADHD and provide treatment and management.
The guideline states that people with ADHD would benefit from improved organisation of care and better integration of paediatric, CAMHS and adult mental health services.
The organisation and planning of services
NICE clinical guideline CG72 on ADHD recommends that multidisciplinary specialist ADHD teams and/or clinics for children and young people should be established, with separate teams and/or clinics for adults. Initially these could be provided by a specialist team, but over time should be integrated within generic mental health services.
The guideline also recommends that these teams and clinics should have expertise in the diagnosis and management of ADHD, and should:
- provide diagnostic, treatment and consultation services for people with ADHD who have complex needs, or where general psychiatric services are in doubt about the diagnosis and/or management of ADHD
- put in place systems of communication and protocols for information sharing among paediatric, child and adolescent, forensic, and adult mental health services for people with ADHD, including arrangements for transition between child and adult services
- produce local protocols for shared care arrangements with primary care providers, and ensure that clear lines of communication between primary care secondary care are maintained
- ensure age-appropriate psychological services are available for young people and adults with ADHD, and for parents or carers.
The size and commitment of these teams should depend on local circumstances (for example, the size of the trust, the population covered and the estimated referral rate for people with ADHD).
Every locality should develop a multi-agency group to oversee the implementation of the NICE clinical guideline CG72 on ADHD and to start and coordinate local training initiatives. This should include representatives from multidisciplinary specialist ADHD teams, paediatrics [if considered appropriate locally for adult services], mental health and learning disability trusts, forensic services, CAMHS, the Children and Young People's Directorate (including services for education and social services), parent support groups and others with a significant local involvement in ADHD services. It may also include the third sector, substance misuse services, youth justice, offender management and primary care.
Joint commissioning for mental health as a whole is still underdeveloped[1] and the commissioning process should have full participation and ownership with health, social services and education[2]. As the symptoms of ADHD are commonly found in people with learning difficulties and in offenders[3], commissioners may need to carry out a joint health and social needs assessment and engage with a range of other partners. Commissioners may also need to consider these as potential sources of referrals to services for adults with ADHD. This may provide the opportunity to work with health and social care providers to develop local care pathways that support the integration of services across different sectors. In some areas the third sector is already bringing different agencies together and encouraging sharing of information on good practice.
A service model for the management of adults with ADHD might include a multidisciplinary specialist ADHD team and/or clinic for young people, with separate teams and/or clinics for adults. As generic mental health services develop competence in the management of adults with ADHD, the delivery of these services could be integrated between specialist and generic mental health teams. However, as there are currently no mechanisms in place for specialist tertiary mental health services to support general mental health teams, commissioners may wish to consider how this can be delivered across a geographical area. Generic mental health teams and/or primary care could provide a treatment monitoring service, which could include a nurse or other clinical prescriber and/or practitioner with a specialist interest.
Commissioners may wish to consider service models that include the NHS working with non-NHS providers and/or the third sector to stimulate the market. As service models may need to take into account patients with a dual diagnosis, it may be appropriate for generic adult mental health services to provide an overall coordinated package of care, with advice from specialist clinicians for the management of ADHD. Some patients may need support over a significant period of time, so service models may need to consider current levels of provision, clinical skills and competence, and how best to provide the level of service capacity required in the local area (see also the commissioning and benchmarking tool).
Local stakeholders, including service users, should be involved in determining what is needed from a service for the diagnosis and management of adults with ADHD and young people in transition in order to meet local needs. The service should be centred on the person with ADHD and integrated with other elements of care for people with ADHD.
The service specification needs to consider:
- The required competencies of, and training for, staff responsible for providing the service. This may need to focus on the competencies and skills required by individuals involved at various stages of the care pathway, rather than which specific professionals should be involved[4].
- The expected number of patients. This should take into account how quickly any changes in service provision are likely to take place.
- Ease of access and service location. Commissioners should engage with service users and other relevant individuals and organisations locally.
- Referral and care pathways should support the integration of services across different sectors.
- Information and audit requirements, including IT support and infrastructure.
- Planned service improvement, including redesign, quality, equitable access, and referral-to-treatment times according to the 18 week patient pathway or equitable waiting times locally for those services currently outside 18 weeks.
- Service monitoring criteria.
Useful sources of information may include:
- The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency's Mental health roadmap is an online resource pack for commissioners of mental health services for people of all ages. The pack contains practical tools, guidance, case studies and templates, and integrates commercial and procurement elements with clinical aspects to help commissioners get the most from the provider market, enabling quality and value for money in delivering improved outcomes
- Delivering the 18 week patient pathway: 18 week commissioning pathways
- Implementation advice for NICE clinical guideline CG72 on ADHD.
1. Department for Children, Schools and Families (2008) Children and young people in mind: the final report of the national CAMHS review. London: Department for Children, Schools and Families.
2. Department of Health (2004) National service framework for children, young people and maternity services and in particular standard 9: The mental health and psychological well-being of children and young people. London: Department of Health.
3. Nutt D, Fone K, Asherson P et al (2007) Evidence-based guidelines for management of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adolescents in transition to adult services and in adults: recommendations from the British Association for Psychopharmacology. Journal of Psychopharmacology 21 (1): 10-41.
4. National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (2008) Diagnosis and management of ADHD in children, young people and adults. London: Royal College of Psychiatrists.
This page was last updated: 02 March 2012
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- Specifying a service for the diagnosis and management of ADHD in adults
- Determining local service levels for the diagnosis and management of ADHD in adults
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When you finally grasp the magnitude of Apple's play in the payments business, it becomes clear that potential competitors will be shunned from the platform. As Daniel Terdiman suggests in CNET, "New Apple features may leave fresh app roadkill in their wake as Apple is likely to undercut several existing third-party applications." With the introduction of Passbook, Apple has launched mobile payments on iOS and competing virtual payment systems, including bitcoin, must be terminated.
Roadkill in payment apps has already occurred and they were never given the chance to be made irrelevant. The decentralized digital currency bitcoin has had two functioning payment applications on the Apple App Store — Blockchain Wallet and BitPak, both of which have since been unceremoniously evicted. Several other bitcoin-related apps currently appear in the store but they don't seem to be restricted by Apple since they don't enable send/receive transaction capability as the wallets do.
In April, I covered the extraordinary Blockchain Wallet product in Forbes only to see the app abruptly removed from the store in less than two weeks. The explanation given by Apple was that "apps must comply with all legal requirements in any location where they are made available to users." Apple further stated, "it is the developer's obligation to understand and conform to all local laws" and the developer was referred to the legal department for an exact explanation of which law it violates. Clearly, they will not be able to cite a law as no laws prohibiting bitcoin currently exist in any jurisdiction. Fortunately, the wallet app is still available here at the Cydia Repository for jailbroken iPhones.
At about the same time, BitPak received an electronic notification that the first bitcoin wallet for iOS had also been removed from the Apple App Store again citing similar legal reasons. Sadly, BitPak's developer says that he would have continued BitPak development had the app stayed in the store and that he had been working on a revision which would have put the blockchain in the cloud for greater efficiency.
Basically, it boils down to this. Apple realizes that, with their current installed base of 400 million active credit card details, the mobile payments war at the point of sale is largely theirs to lose. Why complicate the strategy by offering competing currencies and competing systems on the iPhone platform? If Apple can facilitate proprietary mobile payments successfully, it can undoubtedly spur demand for more Apple products.
Even though bitcoin payment apps could boost sales of Apple mobile hardware, bitcoin poses a more specific threat because, as its own independent, nonpolitical currency, the third-party legacy players (i.e., VISA, Mastercard, banks) can be bypassed which would disrupt Apple's partnerships with dongle players like Square and iZettle. Bitcoin payment apps have already demonstrated the effectiveness of QR codes and scanning at the point of sale which is obviously Apple's bridge strategy prior to full Near Field Communication (NFC) deployment.
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The pending battle for these revenue streams will be the stuff of legends. Never have so many corporate giants been lined up for their piece of the pie. Let's start with Apple. My thesis is that they are the only company capable of catalyzing adoption of tap-to-pay on smartphones. But which prize do they seek?
I predict they will take no interchange revenue and no fees. They will avoid such barriers to adoption. Advertising revenue will be negligible. Apple's prize is simply to boost sales of high margin iPhones. The mobile wallet will be a key selling feature and create yet another means to lock people into the iOS platform.
Bitcoin is not the only virtual currency target. The founders of micro-payment service Flattr say that they are the victims of an 'app dictatorship' after Apple rejected the podcatcher Instacast based on its integration with Flattr. Apple cited App Store Review Guidelines 21.2 which states that "the collection of donations must be done via a web site in Safari or an SMS." A Bitcoin Forum member then surmised: "Have the app create the script and route that out through using SMS. I wonder what the difference is though between an app that uses Flattr and an app that uses PayPal, as far as being used to transfer funds from one person to another."
PayPal is a unique and interesting exception. Having been in the App Store since the very beginning, PayPal has the volume and clout to the point of where rejecting it would harm Apple more than PayPal. Also, PayPal holds consumer accounts and processes only national currencies so they are more like a bank and card company combined. However, Apple still hugely regulates what can be done via PayPal. While consumers can send payments to each other and link PayPal to fund their iTunes account, developers selling in the App Store are forbidden in accepting PayPal directly due to Apple's 30% cut.
Bitcoin might be stymied by Apple for now, but I predict that even the well known PayPal app will join the growing list of roadkill if Apple decides to enter person-to-person payments.
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Unfortunately, you are incorrect. The liberty dollar alternative currency was successfully prosecuted in a very weak case. Look it up.
James, I do believe you have missed the boat.
Do you know what the US Government actually is?
Do you know what the red characters on your birth certificate are?
Do you know why a woman's womb is called a "birth canal"?
These questions are all related and you are brainwashed.
Thank you for your time, it was my pleasure.
unfortunately, are an idiot. im familiar with that case, they were prosecuted and it was very weak, probably should have been stronger imo.
and the reason is the coins looked like us currency, which btw along with the word dollar being used, were the only problems they had with the liberty dollars. get your head out of your ass and reread the last paragraph a few times until it sinks in.
you should have provided a reference for your random claim.
I agree there is no reason apple couldn't use Bitcoins as currency, however they want power and control which they cannot get with Bitcoin. Apple will only adopt this currency by force not by choice.
Ok, no more iphone for me…
Its not that Bitcoin is an illegal form of currency in relation to the liberty dollar. The liberty dollar case was based on the physical adaptation of the currency and the conviction was based on "making, possessing and selling coins." I believe Apple's stance is due to Anti-Money Laundering Regulations. Bitcoin is a decentralized system, which inherently lacks the the necessary procedures and protocols to protect against money laundering and terrorist financing. While, Bitcoins are an interesting form of virtual currency, until the system becomes centralized to the extent of AML procedures its growth will be inhibited and some companies will stay away.
Prediction: Bitcoins will eventually be categorized or interpreted in a way to fall under government banking regulations. See: FATF Recommendation 15 (value transfer service)/BSA (prepaid access)/Patriot Act section 359
So sad. I love my iPhone, but I love Bitcoins more. Sigh. I guess my next phone will be a Droid. I guess this iPad has to go, too. Can anyone suggest a more Bitcoin friendly replacement?
While the corporate titans fight over who controls the wallet, the consumer has largely yawned at the entire debate. Only 5%* of consumers have bothered to purchase anything with a mobile payment system. Not one of these companies have established the ubiquity and consumer value proposition necessary to succeed. It's time for all to take a step back and figure out what the consumer really wants.
*Reference: PwC study on mobile payment market


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text: November 22, 1963 is one of those dates ingrained in our memory, if we were alive and aware of the world around us at the time. On Thursday, the 21st, we had a good idea where we were headed, individually and collectively. By that sunny Friday afternoon, we didn't. The days to follow brought more death, fear, confusion and questions. By the Thanksgiving dinner on the following Thursday, I remember being simply thankful to be alive. Do you remember where you were? Do you recall what you felt that day and throughout the next week? Did the assassination and subsequent events propel you to action or change your mind about your plans for the future? Today, almost 50 years later, what is the legacy of that historic date? I remember the turmoil more than the details, but I know I was a few minutes into a mind-numbing mega-lecture on world history in a ground-floor room in the library of the University of Maryland-College Park. Our TA ran in and yelled that the president had been shot. Students recoiled in shock. The professor stammered around a few minutes then reluctantly gave us a 10-minute break, which gave everyone a chance to spill out on the mall to search for more information. The J-school was just next door and some journalism students brought out wire copy. Others had news from televisions scattered around campus. Eventually, we filed back into the lecture hall and the prof restarted. She said something like, "Will they never learn the lessons of history?" One by one, everyone in the hall got up and walked out. By the time I got back to downtown DC, Kennedy had died and fear had gripped the city. Flags were being lowered. Telephone lines were clogged. The empty streets and sidewalks were you all you needed to see to understand how frightened people were. I should mention that, at the time, many Washingtonians saw Texas as a lawless, awful place. Anything and anyone coming out of it was suspect, including Lyndon Johnson. Was he to blame for this? Did he lust after the presidency so much that he hired an assassin to eliminate Kenney? Or was this the first step of an invasion, the prelude to a coup? Would Russian troops be on the National Mall the next morning? Would other leaders be taken out by snipers? The world was truly upside down. Obviously, no one was safe. No one could be protected, even a president. Nothing was safe, nothing was sacred and there might be nothing between ordinary people like me and a totalitarian takeover. For a newly married 19-year-old, November 22 presented a watershed moment, perhaps the first truly adult moment in my young life. Birds on a Wire Blog looks back at that fateful day and week through a series of posts published four years ago. See what some of your friends remember. Read an eyewitness account written by a young television cameraman assigned to the Dallas parade and courthouse. And read the inaugural speech that became the mantra for an entire generation. Please share your memories and thoughts with us. Hit Comments in the upper-right corner of this post to join the conversation. Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning—signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. This much we pledge—and more. To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom—and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge—to convert our good words into good deeds—in a new alliance for progress—to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this Hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support—to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective—to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak—and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run. Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course—both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. So let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms—and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah—to "undo the heavy burdens ... and to let the oppressed go free." And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe. Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort? In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own. For a video of the entire speech, go here: http://www.history.com/video.do?name=elections&bcpid=1745093705&bclid=5982118001&bctid=6146973001 Birds reader and fellow blogger George Phenix was 25 and barely a month into a job as cameraman for (then) CBS-affiliate KRLD-TV on November 22, 1963, when he was assigned to cover President Kennedy's Dallas visit. As the President's motorcade wound its way into the heart of the city, Phenix planted himself along the parade route and waited. Today, Phenix, who publishes Blog of Ages, lives in North Carolina. Phenix remembers: My news director, Eddie Barker, divided us into teams of reporters to cover the JFK trip to Dallas. I helped George Sanderson film Air Force One landing at Love Field. Bob Huffaker picked up coverage as the procession rolled past welcoming crowds lining the curb along Main Street -- toward the triple underpass at Dealey Plaza. In the motorcade, we had Jim Underwood riding in one of the press cars. When the shooting started, I was outside the Trade Mart awaiting the President's arrival for his noon speech. Suddenly, sirens wailed from the freeway overpass. Lots of sirens. In the crowd, a woman started crying, "He's been hit. He's been hit." With what? Rock? Bottle? Brick? I never thought rifle fire. And in that instant, the world changed. The whole damned world. KRLD served as the home base for the CBS coverage of the assassination, led by Dan Rather. Eddie Barker was first to announce Kennedy's death, from Parkland Hospital. Two days later, Phenix was sent to the city jail to film the transfer of Lee Harvey Oswald to the county jail. The pictures you have in your mind of Jack Ruby shooting Oswald came from George's film, now part of our historical memory. Here is a portion of the deposition George gave in 1964 to federal officials, used as testimony for the Warren Commission inquiry into the assassination. TESTIMONY OF GEORGE R. PHENIX beginning at 13H123... The testimony of George R. Phenix was taken at 3:40 p.m., on April 16, 1964, in the office of the U.S. attorney, 301 Post Office Building, Bryan and Ervay Streets Dallas, Tex., by Mr. Leon D. Hubert, Jr., assistant counsel of the President's Commission. Mr. PHENIX. …I had to have my eyes stuck against the eyepiece in order to see through it. So, from then on, all I saw was Oswald coming down the hallway there, and I didn't actually--I wasn't aware of seeing Ruby step out of the crowd--I knew something had happened and the shot--at the shot somebody came roaring in from my left and almost knocked me down. The unipod was braced on the curb and it slipped down to the main level of the ramp and almost fell, and looking through the eyepiece and over the eyepiece, too, just shooting out of habit really, the camera was running all the time--I followed the action of the policeman wrestling with Ruby--it just happened that they moved to my right. Mr. HUBERT. Your film, as a matter of fact, is that famous film that catches Ruby moving forward and the wrestling? Mr. PHENIX. Right; I just saw it once and we were so busy, but I think it was the one where Ruby's hat was in the corner of the opening frame and he steps out. Mr. HUBERT. You have seen it since, haven't you? Mr. PHENIX. Oh, yes. Mr. HUBERT. Did you know Ruby? Mr. PHENIX. No. Mr. HUBERT. Had you observed him in the crowd prior to these events? Mr. PHENIX. I can't remember it. I heard someone say in the crowd after they took Ruby and after Oswald left in the ambulance that it was Jack Ruby, and the name didn't mean a thing to me. Mr. HUBERT. Did you hear anybody running down the ramp just before the shooting, running down or possibly walking down? Mr. PHENIX. No, I think if he had been running I would have heard him because the sound just echoes in that basement. I saw some film, and I'm sure you've seen it too, some of the film that showed Ruby positioned down there, and he looks back where you catch almost a full shot of his face before Oswald comes down, and that anyway--it just looks like he was there for a while. Mr. HUBERT. Did you hear Ruby say anything? Mr. PHENIX. No; maybe in the excitement I heard him, but I don't remember hearing this famous quotation about "Jack, you S. O. B." Mr. HUBERT. You didn't hear anybody; hear anything, including Ruby--anything distinguishable that you now remember? Mr. PHENIX. The only one I can remember is Bob Huffaker, who is the mike man for our live camera, saying over and over that "He's been shot," and he was calling him "Lee Harold Oswald." I don't know why--and then just in general--a few words. Mr. HUBERT. You heard him saying, "He's been shot, he's been shot, he's been shot," a number of times? Mr. PHENIX. Yes, and the policemen telling everybody to stand back. George Phenix and two colleagues recently wrote a book about their experience on November 22, 1963. The Day the News Went Live is available at Amazon. Click here for a fascinating interview with George that aired on Austin's News 8, in 2003, which includes portions of his famous video. Christopher Cory, of New York, was working for Time magazine in 1963. He retired recently from many years as a university communications director. Here is his memory of that day: I was pretty far from the scene and more touched by it later. I'd been living in Washington, DC, learning my trade as a reporter just out of college in the bureau of Time magazine. When the news broke I was in my parents' living room in Englewood, NJ en route to the Harvard-Yale game in New Haven. Well-drilled in journalism by then, I "called my desk" – the nearest one being in New York City – and was deployed to get reactions in Harlem. That didn't take too long, since ... most of the news the magazine needed that night was coming from elsewhere. The next week I was deployed to watch the funeral cortege from the front of the White House but senior correspondents were doing the close ups and the moment passed without stirring huge feelings in me. The experience did, however, turn out to make me preternaturally alert ever after for scraps of news about any Kennedy family members. Your question makes me realize that they have provided an obbligato of inspiration to the melody of my life. In my [last] job I even once got to introduce myself to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a professor and vibrant environmental advocate at the law school at Pace, the university where I [was] director of most relations with the media. He handles his own, masterfully. Karen Holmgren, California Fiber artist I was at work in an insurance company office [in Wayne NJ] when the announcement came over the PA that the President had been shot but was alive. Everything came to a halt as people looked at each other in shock. Slowly we all resumed our tasks, only to be interrupted a short time later with the news that Kennedy had died and we were given leave to go home. The shock was too big to absorb, but there were tears in many eyes as we made our way out of the building. Our family spent the weekend glued to the television. I was watching when Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald. It was all so unreal. The funeral procession and services were terribly moving and sad. I remember all those grainy black and white images of Jackie and the children, Johnson, limousines, crowds, the frequent replay of the shooting event. Black and white - the appropriate way to convey this horrible event. Stark, somber, emotional. Darlene Costner, Arizona Retired realtor Darlene's Hodgepodge All I can add to the JFK story is that I was taking movies of my daughter when my husband phoned me with the news. He was a radio station manager and the news had just come down the wire. No one will ever forget where they were or what they were doing when they heard that dreadful news. Kathleen Scott, Texas Retired banker, novelist Hill Country Mysteries I was eleven years old in 1963. My father was a pilot in the Air Force, in charge of a squadron of small fighter bombers. His mission, in event of threat/attack, was to fly from the air base at Lakenheath, England, where we lived, to defend freedom. Mom junked the TV when we moved to Europe. News came from BBC radio and the Stars and Stripes newspaper, an American publication which delivered U. S. news 'for the military community' a day or two late, or barely mentioned, if the event didn't mesh with military outlook. We didn't know much about the May riots in Alabama or the August march in Washington. My world was far more local. I knew the Mods and Rockers were on the rise in Britain. And the Rolling Stones, a loud unknown band, performed at our local fair, free admission. BBC news was taken with British tumults of the times. A major scandal broke in June; Minister of Defense Profumo was sleeping with a call girl who simultaneously 'had relations' with a Russian Embassy attaché. Perfect for blanket coverage--sex, infidelity, lies and spies. Then the Great Train Robbery took place in August and the British Isles were captivated by twelve men and loot equivalent to $7,500,000US. The phone rang in our home in the evening on November 22nd. My mother was distressed, my father grim-faced. I didn't really know what the death of the President meant. I knew it was bad but it was a remote bad, like a scary Halloween movie. We didn't see footage of the motorcade or the following days of nonstop news coverage. It didn't seem real. I knew more about Winston Churchill than I did about JFK. Everything about America was remote--the weather, the culture, the President. I didn't know that Kennedy was a man who brought hope. Or that the gunshots which ended his life would reverberate many years hence. June McNamara, Delaware Retired human resources director I was in a political science class at college, and the prof, very emotional, broke the news to us and then dismissed class (as were all of the campus classes). I drove home slowly, in a bit of a fog, watching the other drivers move in that manner as well. When the news was announced that Kennedy had died, many drivers pulled over to the side of the road and just wept. When I got home, the TV was on, and remained on continuously for the next several days as we all followed the world-changing events. Later, watching Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination was surreal. Antoinette Almaguer, Virginia Former Peace Corps volunteer and desk officer I remember sitting in the SUB, the Student Union Building, at the University of New Mexico, where I'd met my sister for lunch. I was a freshman. The television was on and then the news interrupted whatever was on. I felt emptiness in the pit of my stomach and people were shuffling around to get a better look at Walter Cronkite. Tears welled up and I tried hard not to sob. Everyone seemed to be in shock. One of Mary Ann's friends walked up to me, smiled and handed me an ice cream bar. I really didn't know what to do with it. Did I eat it? Could I have done something as ordinary as eat ice cream at that tumultuous moment in history? Five years later Bobby was assassinated and then Martin Luther King. I joined the Peace Corps that summer. It was about altruism. It was a Kennedy thing. Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You ..... In Belize, when invited to someone's home, it was common to see two portraits in their living room: one of Christ, showing palms extended and exposed heart, and the other was the official presidential photo of John Kennedy. We shared respect for a charismatic figure. He inspired many of us to achieve goals which we might not have pursued otherwise. And I can't say I much cared for ice cream bars since then. Ann Sentilles, Texas Editor,writer www.thethirdthird.com I was a junior in high school in Ohio in November 1963 and presidential assassinations were the stuff of history books, not my life and times. Or so I thought. I was glued to the TV the entire weekend, not really believing what I was seeing. I remember in particular coming home from church that Sunday to learn that Oswald himself had been shot in the basement of the Dallas Police Department and beginning to wonder, in the midst of the added chaos, about the stability and certainty of everything in my life that I had once believed with all my heart was stable and certain. And that, I think, is the feeling that endured -- in many ways, a loss of childhood innocence and an introduction to tragedy on an epic scale even here and, as it turns out, especially here, in the USA. I had a chance to put the Kennedy Assassination into clearer perspective when I taught my children about it in the context of all that went on in the 60's. In the truly wonderful Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, they could see what hopes and dreams had been dashed by Kennedy's killing (and those of his brother Bobby and Martin Luther King), and what new hopes and dreams were born in the aftermath and in the activism and rebellion which colored our college years. Kathy, Massachusetts Retired librarian I, like so many people, mark the anniversary of the JFK assassination by remembering the exact spot I first heard the news -- crossing a college campus while people around me were sharing/shouting the news. Members of my class marched in Selma, protested the Vietnam War and conspired to enable male students to become ineligible for the draft. The college I went to did not allow women students to wear "slacks" to class, and we had single-sex dorms (most of the time.) I went on to teach school under the Johnson era "Great Society." In the 60s I was certain that the country could eliminate poverty and racism. When I started teaching, remnants of institutional racism were still evident in some schools in rural VA. However, both black and white children lived in poverty. And class seemed to be a common factor in predicting school success. Larry Burch, Iowa Retired attorney I was an electronics instructor at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, and in the break room when one of the technical sergeants entered and stated that the president had been shot in Dallas. We soon learned that the wound was fatal. Everyone I knew was shocked at the news. I was dismayed for a few hours, and then became quite angered that such a thing could happen in the United States in that day and age. It certainly brought an end to the naïveté of my youth. Linda Tate Huntington, Maryland Retired health care policy analyst On the morning of November 22, 1963, the Peace Corps, on the corner of Lafayette Square behind the White House, gave me my first job. Afterward, I walked across the square and one more block to a fancy department store called Garfinkel's. I didn't know, at 22, that one would overpay for mattress covers at fancy stores. Taking the elevator back to the first floor, I overheard women talking about President Kennedy's having been shot. I laughed in shock, wanting to believe it was some kind of sick joke. I soon verified the news, staggered outdoors, and walked around the block to a bar with a TV. My sense of security was destroyed. Assassinated was the head of my country and the senator who, just four years earlier, had exhorted my high school class to public service at our graduation ceremony. Bradford W. O'Hearn, New York Retired journalist I was talking to the Allentown (PA) head of Pennsylvania Bell about for a non-profit I volunteered for when he said, "I've got to go. The phones are going wild. The President has been shot." My next stop was the offices ofThe Morning Call where I was a reporter. The wire room, comfortable for two or three persons, had about a dozen in it soberly scanning the wires. There was a short hiatus and then five bells sounded; AP's highest priority. A priest had confirmed the death of the nation's first Irish Catholic president, and wide open possibilities of Nov. 1960 seemed a lot more constricted to this Irish Catholic. It's that magical time of year when the trees exhibit their last breath of life before descending beneath the rigors of winter. At the same time, roads fill with tour buses and lightly clad folks from warmer climes, here to see the glorious foliage. Well, I'm going to save you the trip and the bother. Here are photos from yesteryear of many of the same trees, at peak. Sit back, enjoy and know you saved a bundle by not coming up here this year. Plus shut the door on your way out. Click below to enter the site. From thee, you can enlarge any photo with another click. Some even scroll down or sideways as part of a slide show, but there's no consistency to how I posted them. http://www.birdsonawireblog.com/1/category/fall/1.html Eleven people rescued from a capsized boat hung onto a rope dangling from a Coast Guard helicopter. Ten were men and one was a woman. The rope was not strong enough to carry them all, so they decided one had to leave. Otherwise, they might all fall back into the water. They argued for a while, but no one could decide who should leave. Eventually, the woman spoke up. She said that she would voluntarily let go of the rope, because, as a woman, she always gave up everything for her husband and kids or for men in general, and was used to making sacrifices for men with little in return. As soon as she finished her speech, all the men started clapping... Still confused about the ACA, also known as Obamacare (or Romneycare!)? Here's a an expansion of primer I wrote for Twitter, covering some of the basics. To get specific questions answered, go to the website listed below for instant chat or call the toll-free number, 24/7. Obamacare 101 Q. I get insurance at work. What do i need to do per new law? A. Absolutely nothing! You are already insured. Stay well! Q. I am on Medicare. What should I do on October 1? A. Enjoy a good walk in the park. You are already insured. Q. I just changed jobs and my new boss doesn't offer insurance. What to do? A. Buy discounted insurance through your state exchange. Or, see if you can join an association that will insure you. Q. I'm a cancer survivor with no insurance. What can I do? A. Starting January 1, 2014, insurers cannot turn you down. Get insurance now through your state exchange Oct 1, for coverage beginning Jan 1, 2014. If you need help before then, there is a bridge-program designed for such situations. Ask an exchange navigator for more information. Q. I'm insured but my 20 year old son needs insurance and can't afford it. A. Insurers now must let him stay on your policy until age 26 Q. I heard insurance rates are going to sky rocket. A. So far, that is not the case. See http://nyti.ms/15THiyg for sample costs. (Note: If you haven't shopped for insurance lately, these prices may seem high, but they are discounted compared to today's premiums. Also, like all insurance, the broader the coverage, the higher the premium. You might be able to get away with a cheaper plan to start with, then upgrade next year when enrollment re-opens in the fall. Q. What happens if I don't take out health insurance? Can they make me? A. You'll pay a penalty when you file your next income tax. That penalty will increase every year you are not insured. Q. Where are these state exchanges? A. Online or through your state offices. See http://HealthCare.gov/ for more info. Q. I don't make much and need insurance. Can I get Medicaid? A. A state insurance exchange navigator can tell you if you qualify. Q. I'm on Medicaid. What do I do? A. If you still qualify, you will stay on Medicaid. For answers to your own questions about Obamacare, see http://HealthCare.gov/ or call 1-800-318-2596, for live responses in many languages, 24/7. Feel free to share. State-by-State Premiums Under the Health Care Law nyti.ms New data from the Department of Health and Human Services outline how much monthly health care premiums will cost for individuals and families buying insurance through new exchanges in 36 states. We're sorry, Medgar Evers, James Reeb, Jimmy Jackson, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Vernon Dahmer, Herbert Lee, George Lee, Lamar Smith, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Louis Allen, Oneal Moore, Viola Liuzzo, Jonathan Daniels and Lemuel Penn. The SCOTUS owes you all an apology for undoing important safeguards to the legislation you died for, directly or indirectly. Some of us will never forget. Try telling the surviving family members that the voting problem has been fixed in the states where their loved ones died, and federal oversight is no longer necessary Note: The names are of those killed because they were associated with people or places where voting rights activities were happening or being planned, before passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. But, there could be many more who deserve to be listed. |


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We voted yesterday in the Mat-Su Valley. The overall votes here were covered this morning by the Anchorage Daily News and the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman.
Most exciting to me, as a Mat-Su Valley progressive, was the sound trouncing of the Tuckerman Babcock-inspired, well-funded (although the source - MEA funds - was highly questionable), and maliciously false effort by the Babcock-Carter-Carmony clique to derail a recent Mat-Su Borough ordinance, mandating Borough approval of any large plower plant designs before they can be built.
Once again, the efforts of Utility Watch and the MEA Ratepayers Alliance are paying off for Mat-Su area residents.
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Attorneys for the ACLU have asked a judge to reconsider his decision to toss out a lawsuit involving a Gay-Straight Alliance at Okeechobee High School. U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore didn't know that students were denied the right to hold club meetings at the school this month, and if he had, he likely wouldn't have dismissed the lawsuit, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union said in a court document filed Friday.
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What are you doing under that tree? A mom asks this of her child.
I was dividing seven into twenty. With seven it starts repeating after the sixth decimal... The mother smiles in awe at her seven-year-old boy. Did you play with anyone today? Not really. He looks up at her with his beautiful clear-green eyes and smiles. -- A paraphrasing of a new, fascinating book by Katherine Beals: Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World, Trumpeter Press, 2009 Here is a book that you will want to read: Katherine Beals'Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World. Anyone with an alleged quirky child, or in fact anyone who is allegedly quirky themselves should really take a look. Katie, a friend of mine, really knows firsthand about the problems with school curricula that do not take left-brain issues and alternate learning styles and social challenges into account; she is the mom of one such quirky child. She intelligently and sensitively raises all the right questions about how we need to accommodate square-peg kids and bring out the best in them. With chapters like, "Hindered by reform math and other trends," and "Playdates, friends and family life," and "Adrift in today's classroom," Katie really nails the topic of the odd, often gifted child who is misunderstood, and how to better understand him. What are you waiting for? Go get it! |
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What is going on here? In a fairly joyless past few months of sports watching, this Jets/Knicks fan finally has something to feel positive about. Out of nowhere, it appears the starving for a point guard Knicks have found their man buried on their own bench. Of course I am talking about Jeremy Lin, who turned some heads Friday night, nearly brought the roof of the Garden Monday night and led the Knicks to their third straight victory tonight.
I am sorry but it is hard to buy any fluke talk about Lin's talent when he goes for a minimum of 20 points and 8 assists in three straight games, especially with two coming against DeRon Williams and John Wall. Tonight he racked up 23 points and a career high 10 assists en route to a 107-93 win over the Washington Wizards. For the second straight game, the Knicks were without both Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire but still found a way to win.
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The fourth-seeded Silver Stars got 18 points from Becky Hammon and beat Minnesota for the first time in six tries this season.
The top-seeded Lynx went 4-0 against San Antonio during the regular season -- part of their WNBA-best 27-7 record -- and captured Game 1 by a point on Friday, but shot just 39.5 percent in this one and never held a lead.
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I guess the Karl Rove "turn the screws" campaign isn't turning all the Republicans to jelly. In fact, it may be emboldening some:
A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.
The lawmaker, Representative Heather A. Wilson of New Mexico, chairwoman of the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, said in an interview that she had "serious concerns" about the surveillance program. By withholding information about its operations from many lawmakers, she said, the administration has deepened her apprehension about whom the agency is monitoring and why.
Ms. Wilson, who was a National Security Council aide in the administration of President Bush's father, is the first Republican on either the House's Intelligence Committee or the Senate's to call for a full Congressional investigation into the program, in which the N.S.A. has been eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of people inside the United States believed to have links with terrorists.
I do think this shows just what a piss-poor job Alberto VO5 did defending the party line on Monday. But there's another factor at work here. Heather Wilson, last heard braying "I thought it was nasty" about Janet Jackson's nipple like it was a weapon of mass destruction all to itself, is locked in a tough re-election battle with Patricia Madrid in the 1st District of New Mexico. A recent poll showed Madrid up 44-43. What Karl Rove may have failed to account for is the extent to which Republican push-back on this issue gives members much-needed distance from the White House. With an unpopular President facing difficulties from all sides, the last thing you want is him coming to your state and stumping for you. Rove may have given the impetus for the Republican caucus to run screaming in the opposite direction.


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