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San Francisco police shoot wheelchair-bound man twice in the groin
Stumble This! A man in a Wheelchair was shot twice in the groin by San Francisco police outside a Mental Health facility Tuesday. A cellphone video uploaded to YouTube Wednesday showed four plainclothes and two uniformed officers surrounding the wheelchair-bound man. He was reportedly armed with a knife and a chunk of concrete. Police said that the suspect stabbed one cop in the shoulder and slashed tires on a city vehicle. San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon explained at a press conferenc...

North Dakota Legislature Looks To Outlaw Name Calling
That’s a trite way of describing the Legislation, that has sprung up from the overreaction to Cooperstown teenager Cassidy Andel who was allegedly bullied. In response, we’re getting expensive, knee-jerk legislation that a) isn’t likely to solve any problems and b) is going to cost the Taxpayers a lot. Requires the state’s superintendent to create an anti-bullying plan for the whole state, consulting with the Attorney General, the Department of Health, prosecutors from ar...

Assisted Living: More Young People Are Winding Up In Nursing Homes
SARASOTA, Fla. — Adam Martin doesn't fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26. It's no longer unusual to find a nursing home resident who is decades younger than his neighbor: About one in seven people now living in such facilities in the U.S. is under 65. But the growing phenomenon presents a host of challenges for nursing homes, while patients like Martin face staggering isolation. ...

More Young People Winding Up in Nursing Homes
(AP) SARASOTA, Fla. - Adam Martin doesn't fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26. It's no longer unusual to find a nursing home resident who is decades younger than his neighbor: About one in seven people now living in such facilities in the U.S. is under 65. But the growing phenomenon presents a host of challenges for nursing homes, while patients like Martin face staggering isolation. "...

More young people are winding up in nursing homes
SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Adam Martin doesn’t fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26. It’s no longer unusual to find a nursing home resident who is decades younger than his neighbor: About one in seven people now living in such facilities in the U.S. is under 65. But the growing phenomenon presents a host of challenges for nursing homes, while patients like Martin face stagger...

More young people winding up in nursing homes...
SARASOTA, Fla. – Adam Martin doesn't fit in here. No one else in this nursing home wears Air Jordans. No one else has stacks of music videos by 2Pac and Jay-Z. No one else is just 26. It's no longer unusual to find a nursing home resident who is decades younger than his neighbor: About one in seven people now living in such facilities in the U.S. is under 65. But the growing phenomenon presents a host of challenges for nursing homes, while patients like Martin face staggering isolation. "I...

'There Is No Definition of a Mental Disorder'
Gary Greenberg's recent Wired article about the anxiously anticipated and repeatedly delayed fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DMS-5) begins with a revealing admission. "There is no definition of a mental disorder," Allen Frances tells him. "It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it....These concepts are virtually impossible to define precisely with bright lines at the boundaries." Frances should know. As the lea...

Advocates trying to spread the word on mental health parity
As Congress gears up for another health reform fight and Connecticut lawmakers contemplate state-level reforms, a group of consumer and Mental Health advocates is trying to draw attention to a less-noticed federal law they say stands to benefit many state residents. The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 was largely overshadowed by federal health reform, but it provides what Victoria Veltri, General Counsel for the state Office of the Healthc...

DHHS Secretary Cansler in the news on health issues
Pity poor North Carolina DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler.  He is pictured in the Raleigh News and Observer today.  Not once, but twice. Health Care is the top issue in the news today, and Cansler heads the large agency, the Department of Health and Human Services.  DHHS is responsible for Oversight ofMedicaid for NC and for Oversight of Mental Health/Substance Abuse/ and Developmental Disabilities services, as well as Social Services Oversight functions. The N&O’s front pa...

Colorado governor pardons man executed for murder in 1939
Denver (Reuters) - Colorado's outgoing Governor issued a posthumous pardon on Friday to a mentally Disabled man executed in 1939 for the Murder of a 15-year-old girl, a crime the condemned man's supporters have long said he never committed. In pardoning Joe Arridy, Governor Bill Ritter called the case a "tragic conviction (based) on a false and coerced confession." "In addition, it would be Unconstitutional today to impose the death penalty on anyone as intellectually Disabled as Arridy," Ritte...

Potsdam court mired in backlog
POTSDAM — The St. Lawrence County District Attorney's office is systematically reviewing hundreds of pending Village Court Cases, many of which may end up dismissed. The backlog of cases became severe while former Village Justice Joseph T. Welch presided over court, prosecutors say. Mr. Welch resigned abruptly last month after serving as village justice since December 2007. Village police were investigating whether he used Cocaine while holding court. "It's a big problem," Distri...

Video: San Francisco Police Shoot Man in Wheelchair
In the video below, police appear to shoot a man in a Wheelchair who was armed with knives and may have stabbed an officer. There are a number of questions raised by this video over the use of lethal force. What is curious is that citizens were next to the man when the police arrive and traffic is still moving by the scene despite the possible use of the weapons. The greatest concern is why the police did not use non-lethal force such as a Taser or isolate the man while they cut off traffic and ...

What is Happening in Our Society That We Need to Drug Five-Year-Old Children?
© GETTY CREATIVE Attention Deficit disorder can be hard for parents A report in today's newspaper says that Children with attention Deficit disorder (ADHD) can't switch off the default mode network (DMN) in their brains, the daydreaming function. Stimulant drugs such as methylphenidate may help to switch off this DMN, turn down the volume, as it were, and enable the ADHD sufferer to focus on a task. These findings are interesting, but they do not address the question of why so many child...

Colorado governor pardons man executed for murder in 1939
By Keith Coffman Denver | Fri Jan 7, 2011 5:47pm EST Denver (Reuters) - Colorado's outgoing Governor issued a posthumous pardon on Friday to a mentally Disabled man executed in 1939 for the Murder of a 15-year-old girl, a crime the condemned man's supporters have long said he never committed. In pardoning Joe Arridy, Governor Bill Ritter called the case a "tragic conviction (based) on a false and coerced confession." "In addition, it would be Unconstitutional today to impose the death penalty...

Waban man charged in fatal June crash
Nearly seven months after a Newton car crash claimed the life of a Chelsea janitor, a 21-year-old suspect was charged with his death. Authorities yesterday cited Evan Hoffman of Waban with negligent motor vehicle homicide, as well as speeding, a marked-lanes violation and driving without Insurance. On June 26, Hoffman’s Jeep Grand Cherokee allegedly crossed into the eastbound lane of Beacon Street and struck Jose Puzul-Perez’s Ford Aerostar head-on, killing the 43-year-old. For Mari...

Three gambler parents banned from Pa. casinos
Three more parents who gambled their Children's safety outside Bensalem's Parx Casino were reckoned with this week - one by a Bucks County Court judge, the others by state gaming officials. On Thursday, Donald Waige of Philadelphia was placed on 18 months of Probation for leaving his 15-month-old son in a car outside the casino in the summer while he gambled. Also Thursday, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board imposed lifetime casino bans on two other Philadelphia men who did likewise with thei...

Deal: Snow won't stop inauguration
While visiting the Atlanta Mission Homeless facility Saturday, Gov.-elect Nathan Deal commented on the possibility of snow disrupting his inauguration Monday. Council urges Ga. grocery tax Ga. Politics news, helpful links PolitiFact Georgia » Ray McBerry: "You’ll find blacks in almost every regiment throughout the South who fought right alongside white Southerners," during the Civil War. If the snow gets bad, he said the ceremony, planned to be held outside the Capitol, ...

Cold weather kills more in northern India
A worker covers himself in fabric meant for setting up a tent as he sits on the back of a truck, surrounded by morning fog in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. Nearly two dozen more people have died due to cold weather in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute firewood and blankets to the poor. Ram Mohan Srivastav, a government official in worst-hit northern Uttar Pradesh state, said Saturday that at least 22 people had died there over the past three days...

Franklin Graham to Bring 'Hope' to Haiti Sunday
It's been nearly one year since a massive Earthquake killed more than a quarter of a million people in Haiti, and left nearly one million Homeless. Now, Evangelist Franklin Graham has been invited by 75 church leaders in the country to remind Haitians there is hope in God. Graham will hold a "Festival of Hope" Jan. 9 in Port-au-Prince's national Soccer stadium. He'll be joined by musician Michael W. Smith and Haitian worship leaders. More than 500 Haitian churches are working together to bring...

Will Fame Hurt Ted Williams?
(CBS) A few days ago, Ted Williams was a down-on-his-luck, Homeless panhandler on the side of a Columbus, Ohio interstate highway ramp. But then a reporter who had "discovered" the "man with the velvet voice" and made a video of Williams demonstrating his golden pipes put the video online. It's lured more than 13 million hits. On Wednesday, Williams sat down for an exclusive interview on "The Early Show." The rest, as they say, is history. Williams, 53, has been flooded with job offers, voice...

Freezing weather kills 22 in India
NEAR-freezing temperatures have killed more than two dozen people in northern India in recent days despite government efforts to distribute blankets and medicines to the poor. In Uttar Pradesh, the worst-hit state, at least 22 people - many of them Homeless - died over the past three days, pushing the death toll from two weeks of seasonal cold weather to 63, a government official revealed yesterday. Uttar Pradesh is one ADVERTISEMENT of India's poorest states and nearly a fifth of its 180 mill...

Fire leaves over 270 people homeless in NW China
A fire raced through hundreds of houses in a remote village in northwestern China on Sunday, leaving more than 270 people Homeless in freezing temperatures, an official said. No casualties were reported. The fire in Qawa village in Gansu province started in the morning, said a duty officer surnamed Yang at the Zhouqu county government. Yang said the villagers' houses were mostly made of wood. He said local authorities sent tents, food and blankets to the Victims to help them cope with temperatur...

Homeless Man with Golden Voice is Actually a Druggie Deadbeat Dad
As usual, the Mainstream Media are a mile wide and an inch deep.  They have made a media sensation out of someone who is a despicable loser, crook and irresponsible parent.    I have not sunk to such depths as this jerk Ted Williams.  Why can’t normal people like ME, with radio experience and who needs a GOOD full-time job, get a job with the Cleveland Cavaliers?   Why does it have to be an undeserving dreg of society who deserves a “second chance&#...

Police Harassment
A clear pattern of harassment has manifested here in the Portland Metro aria. The other day a Homeless man was shot to death in a stand off between him and Police. To day I can no longer say to it was an isolated incident. For right before my eyes two Homeless men were detained with out cause. So I took out my camera and recorded the whole thing. One of the men was released right off but the other was made to sit on the wet curb for the better part of an hour. His friend came back and I asked hi...

Brazil government says 100K displaced by floods
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian authorities say the number of people left Homeless by Flooding has risen to about 100,000 in four southeastern states. Reports from regional civil defense authorities show Minas Gerais state has been hit the hardest, with 16 dead there as of Friday. More than 4,000 homes have been damaged by rising water and landslides, and about 170 destroyed. Eleven more are dead in Sao Paulo state, where 57 cities are in a State of Emergency, including the capital. Main thorou...