Posted in Courts & Justice System, Humanity, International, Law, Science, civil liberties, constitutional rights, health, nanny state, personal responsibility, politics, torture, women, tagged animal euthanasia, assisted suicide, autopsy, barbituate, Belgium, Chantal Sebire, cure, disease, disfigurement, doctor, ethics, euthanasia, France, French, Gilles Antonowica, indignity, kevorkian, morality, Oregon, overdose, pain, patient, pentobarbital, physician, suffering, suicide, Switzerland, teacher, terminal illness, treatment on March 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Chantal Sebire, a 52-year-old French schoolteacher, suffers from a rare disease which has left her disfigured with facial tumors, and which will eventually damage her brain and kill her; there is no cure, and no treatment. She could suffer horribly for years before dying, in the meantime becoming [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Judges Gone Wild, Law, Parenting, children, civil liberties, constitutional rights, crime, nanny state, police state, tagged abuse, California, child abuse, children, college, constitutional right, credential, criminal charge, DCFS, degree, Department of Children and Family Service, education, Education Code, home school, homeschool, independent study, Judge H. Walter Croskey, juvenile court, Los Angeles, neglect, public school, school, Second District Court of Appeals, Sunland Christian School, teaching on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A court in California has ruled that parents cannot homeschool their children, unless they have a teaching degree. Strangely, this ruling would prevent even parents with a doctorate in another discipline from teaching their own children, unless they go back to college to get a teaching degree. Yet I once even taught public [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Law, People in the news, Science, crime, health, human rights abuses, unusual behaviors, tagged active-duty, anesthesia, Army, arrest, assault, blood-borne disease, Captain, chief warrant officer, cirrhosis, commanding general, controlled substance, drugs, El Paso, Fentanyl, Fort Bliss, fraud, gunnery sergeant, hepatitis, Hepatitis C, investigation, Jim Darnell, Jon Dale Jones, liver, liver cancer, Marine Corps, military, nurse, painkiller, prescription, prosecutor, surgery, Texas, Washington DC on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From TIME Magazine:
At least 15 military service members or their relatives are believed to have been infected with hepatitis by a nurse suspected of stealing their painkillers during surgery.
The nurse, retired Army captain Jon Dale Jones, was arrested this month in Miami on federal charges of assaulting three of those patients and possession of a [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, children, music, tagged arts, arts training, attention span, brain, change, child, childhood, children, cognition, cognitive skills, Dana Foundation, dance, education, geometric representation, intelligence, language, learning, long term memory, memory, mimicry, music, neuroscientist, observation, performing arts, reading, short term memory, theater, training, university on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Scientific American:
Are smarter people drawn to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana Foundation created a consortium of neuroscientists from seven universities to address those questions. On March 4, the group released a report, Learning, Arts, and the [...]
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Posted in Courts & Justice System, Family, Humanity, Law, People in the news, children, crime, health, human rights abuses, law enforcement, obituaries, prisons, torture, unusual behaviors, tagged abuse, addict, aggravated and heinous battery, Alton, Army, assault, at risk, autopsy, battery, BB gun, Benny Wilson, blood, Chad Hudson, charged as adult, child, cocaine, conspiracy, conviction, David Hayes, death, deep tissue burn, defendant, dehydration, developmental disability, developmentally disabled, die, disability check, disability compensation, distribution, Dorothy Dixon, drill sergeant, drug, drug treatment, fatal, fetus, first-degree murder, foraging, glue gun, housing, Illinois, immune system, infant, infection, injuries, intentional homicide of an unborn child, investigate, investigation, investigator, judy Woods, LeShelle McBride, Lieutenant Hayes, malnutrition, medical noncompliance, mental disability, methamphetamine, Michael Elliott, Michelle Riley, pellet gun, police lieutenant, pregnancy, pregnant, prolonged abuse, Quincy, remorse, social services, social worker, St. Louis, starvation, starve, starving, Steve Atkins, target practice, teenage, teenager, teens, Terri Brandt, theft, torture, tortured to death, unlawful restraint, weapon, wound, x-ray on March 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The website for Alton, Illinois - located about 15 miles north of St. Louis - says that it’s “a great place to live, work, grow, and prosper”.
It wasn’t any of that for Dorothy Dixon (pictured at left), who relocated there last fall from Quincy, about 100 miles from St. Louis.
Ms. Dixon, a 29-year-old mentally disabled [...]
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