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150 odd years ago, surgeons during the Civil War routinely amputated limbs that would easily have been saved once Penicillin was developed; were they wrong? Nope – they just worked with what they had....just like us, right now. People aren't going to ruin their kids by medicating or not medicating them as a rule...they... |
It is not good. The exhaustion and the pressure the constant racing in the brain is not good. I can tell you for sure that as someone who's struggled her entire life, I never signed up for this. I'm athletic, high IQ, very good profession, but I've struggled every second of my 30 years. It is not good. |
Nobody chooses these disorders. They are quite real and I am old enough to have experienced the 'old school' way of dealing with it-yelling at kids to 'shut up and sit down' and outright beatings. Oh yay the good old days! It's not easy to get a doc to listen to an adult pushing 50 about it either. I've spent my whole ... |
The ignorance displayed is amazing. All the current nueropsych research shows that these student simply develop in those areas of the brain more slowly (up to three years) than an average child. We used to hold many of them back in school. Smaller class sizes help also. Few if any actually "need" medication but simply ... |
how is it before the 1990's hardly any children had ADHD, but afterwards teachers seemed convinced that all children have it? It's annoying and pathetic. Fellow teachers, grow some balls and handle the kids the way they are meant to be! Stop trying to make future meth addicts, zombie like behaviors, and serious brain d... |
When my son was 8 his school and my ex diagnosed him as ADHD. Even though a therapist said he was not ADHD meds were prescribed for him anyway. Then came 6 months of hell. He meds kept him from sleeping and quite frequently he would end up in tears at 1:00 a.m. His mother told me to buy a CD player and a sleep CD to he... |
TEACHERS ARE NOT DOCTORS!!!!! ADHD is a symptom of some underlying issue that has not been addressed. |
Drugging a child is a horrible form of treatment. Children are growing and have tons of energy they need to release many times throughout the day–Sitting in front of a television screen, no recess or less recess, eating crappy food, tired parents who eat crappy food, lack of parenting, and no one to teach these childre... |
If you're too tired to fix a wholesome meal or spend time with your kids, at least put them in competitive sports so they can utilize all that natural energy and that way you can go back home and fix something healthy for your kids to eat. |
I struggled with the fact that my son has ADHD for over three years. I tried restricting and c hanging diets and various behavior modification strategies. Didn't work! What did work was my facing the truth that my son-who is brilliant-was unable to control his actions. I tried the medication. This was a extremely hard ... |
Tracy, I'm glad that worked out for you. But please don't think what helped your situation will be the solution for mine. If what you say is true, then both my kids would be identical since they eat the same diet. But, that is NOT the case. It is genetic. I have it. My son has it. My mother has it. The rest of my famil... |
I have ADD, and i can tell you, Medication is just another way of sweeping the core problem under the rug. I know where my ADD comes from ,and through research and putting my KNOWLEDGE into PRACTICE and into DAILY HABITS had shown me that like anything else, LEARNING, CONCENTRATING, and HABITS come from DISIPLINE and, ... |
Don't let Drug companies capitalize off of you people by buying their drugs, and them making you Believe that ADHD is actually a DISEASE, when the structure and the functionalism of your/your child's brain is fine...it just takes work....not just any kind of work, the right kind of work. |
This is comming from someone, who went from C's and D's to strait A's...and No it wasn't easy, but it's possible. |
You surely didn't get an A in spelling. I think you are full of it. |
The above is a response to Dave. |
Dave the arrogant sez: Being a parent is hard. Your weakness is why you chose drugs as the solution. Not the child's. Have you not heard anything I've tried to say, Candi? |
Instead of being upset that I'm right and seeking other commenters for moral support you should be considering how what you do now impacts your child 15 years from now. Long after they've made it out of school carrying the stigma that they are ADHD when they're just bored and WAY under-stimulated intellectually by thei... |
And you have a degree in medicine? Education? Psychiatry? Psychology? What, exactly are your qualifications for telling anyone what they are doing right or wrong as a parent, when you've NEVER EVEN MET HER? |
Practicing medicine without a license is illegal. |
@ Dave: you come across as an extremely arrogant, nasty jerk. You have no qualifications to diagnose anyone's child on the internet or to criticize her parenting. Where do you get the unmitigated gall to think you know anything about this subject at all? |
I think its all that immunization that the doctors gives,MAKES THE BABIES CRAZY!!! |
I thought my comments were worthwhile as a whole rather than as a response to Shane alone. I think I speak for many parents when I say that Shane is a little naive in his opinion. |
My personal experience is that ADHD is not the cause of bad grades but contributes to impulsive behavior that may influence a teacher. At the end of the day if you have instituted all reasonable punishments except for duct taping their lips and glueing them to their seats, it may take more than just discipline to solve... |
Two of my three children are ADHD, and one a female who is now in medical school, was not diagnosed until the summer of her senior year in high school. Incredible student and athlete, but something was not right with her organization or "constant chatting" as if her AP classes in Calculus and other sciences were kinder... |
I found that a little medicine from a specialist (not a psychiatrist and certainly not your PEDIATRICIAN but a pediatric MD or a DO with a sub-pediatric specialty in learning and behavior disorders) combined with PARENTING skills, not that of the teachers (forgive me but the worst teachers are the young ones right out ... |
Why we rely on teachers (especially elementary teachers) who use the profession as a default career is beyond me. Although I am glad that the teachers who were ugliest to my children were the young less skilled professionals, without them, I would never have focused on other issues (that they missed) that were clearly ... |
Be a parent first...you should recognize learning issues long before some school tells you about them. They are your babies. You know them better than anyone. |
Dr. Gupta, please take Shane out of the top spot and feature some of the more reasonable responses. |
Please stop reproducing and making this genetic garbage. |
I've seen CONCERTA ads before, directed at children. MAKES ME SICK. |
Help them, school them, understand them, do not poison them with medications no one yet understands. |
I agree with the article about how a school handles children with ADHD/ADD. I am a general education teacher with a degree in special education. I, personally, did not receive any specific training for students with ADHD/ADD; however, each time I have had a child with this diagnosis in my class, I have made a plan for ... |
Dan, stillin here. You say the "long term affects of ridalin are well documented and are VIRTUALLY HARMLESS?" Cite that research please I don't believe it exists...ALL PRESCRIPTION DRUGS HAVE SIDE AFFECTS. Cite it for me so I can read the research you are referring to thank you. |
Please stop bashing the teachers. I am a teacher, and have been one for 16 years. I teach students with disabilities. This was a profession I chose because I was diagnosed with ADD (no hyperactivity) when I was 15. This was late 80s, and it was still virtually unknown. As a part of treatment, I saw a behavior specialis... |
As a parent, I accept my own responsibility of raising my son, but acknowledge that my son's teachers have a huge role in his life. It is up to me, as the parent, to keep in contact with the teacher. She has over 30 students, while I have 2 kids. As for my daughter, her teachers see over 100 students a day. Again, I ha... |
I teach over 30 students a day. Mostly with Learning Disabilities and/or ADD/ADHD. I fully agree that medication is a positive force for some, and not others. But the one thing I fully agree on is that it is a TEAM decision. Parents, physicians, psychiatrists, teachers, and anyone else who knows the child well, should ... |
Agreed. There is certainly a systemic problem with our education system. Somehow it's evolved to what it is today. When former U.S. President, and founder of the University of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson went to school he was totally unfamiliar with concept of grades. People either succeeded or they didn't. Our system o... |
Obviously Shane does not have children of his own and from one educator to another, it's a shame he's teaching ADHD kids without a true understanding of ADHD. It is possible that my youngest child, my daughter, may soon be diagnosed with ADHD. This past school year my husband and I worked with her classroom teacher, th... |
This is great news for the High school Coach.. Gee if you put a kid on amphetimines for academics. Why not steroids for sports! Seems like a double standard here! The real problem is America is being fed night after nite on TV commercials that drugs are the true and only way back to health. Do they even train Doctors i... |
I'm hearing alot of the same old argument. "If it was your kid, you'd feel differently" How can you know, until you've walked a mile in our shoes" Well, I have walked a mile (two, actually). I struggled with "symptoms of ADHD" all my life. I did poorly in school, acted out, lacked focus etc. I was in my mid thirties be... |
My 15 year old son has ADHD and I am very proud of our family support system. We have used non drug therapy by going to a therapist to learn more about the disorder and to teach my son more self control. ADHD is a brain disorder affecting the frontal lobe that directly affects self control. Children with ADHD have the ... |
Navarro had been among Colombia’s most-wanted, and was facing up to 40 years in prison on charges of murder, forced displacement, rebellion, kidnapping and extortion. He was also wanted in Florida federal court for money laundering and drug trafficking. |
Navarro was one of the most brutal and colorful drug lords of the Colombian outback. He began his career as a leftist rebel with the Popular Liberation Army, or EPL, which was founded in 1969. In 1991, when the group began negotiations to demobilize, Navarro was part of a breakaway faction that refused to lay down thei... |
Throughout his criminal career, Navarro maintained that he was still a leftist guerrilla fighting under the the banner of the EPL. But the government had long-ago written him off as an apolitical drug trafficker. |
“He tried to pass himself off as a guerrilla but he was really just a common criminal,” Santos said. |
Local media said he had a fondness for diamond-encrusted gold chains, fancy cars and young girls. But he was also known for being a brutally effective fighter. In 2006, Navarro and his men killed 10 detectives and seven members of the special forces during an ambush. |
The news came just days after the government announced they had killed Martín Farfán Díaz González, known as “Pijarbey,” who was a kingpin in central Colombia facing charges of murder and drug trafficking. |
Santos said both men were “at the very top” of the nation’s most wanted list and he said the military would keep up its efforts to bring down other gang leaders. |
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The Crazy 8s wrapped up last month with it’s 15th Gala Screening in extremely successful fashion. Coming off that whirlwind filmmaking experience, we’re catching up with the cast and crew as they work on their on going projects around the city. First up, Dial Y for Yesterday’s intrepid composer, Red Heartbreaker. Long ... |
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Salman Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, expressed support for Pakistani actors after India sought to ban them from the country. |
Tensions between India and Pakistan over the disputed region of Kashmir have led cinemas in Pakistan to stop screening Indian films in ‘solidarity’ with the country’s armed forces after a recent escalation in violence between the two nuclear-armed archrivals. |
Following an Indian security forces crackdown on dissent in Indian-controlled Kashmir that began in July, relations between the two countries have deteriorated. In September, militants killed 18 soldiers in a raid on an Indian Army base, an attack that New Delhi blames on Pakistan. |
"We have stopped screening Indian movies at our cinemas from Friday till the situation improves and normalcy returns," said Nadeem Mandviwalla, whose Mandviwalla Entertainment runs eight cinemas in Karachi and the capital, Islamabad. |
On September 29, India claimed to have carried out "surgical strikes" in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, which Pakistan condemned and denied. |
The Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association (IMPPA), a small filmmakers' body, has now banned their members from hiring Pakistani actors. According to Mandviwalla and other cinema owners, the Pakistani ban was also in response to IMPPA's move. |
It was later reported in the Indian media that a leader of a regional right-wing party, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, had given Pakistani actors 48 hours to leave India or face being "pushed out." |
The party is one of two Mumbai-based hard-line parties that have regularly called for artists hailing from Pakistan to be banned from working in India. |
Indian films are spectacularly popular in Pakistan, both at the cinema and on bootlegged DVDs. |
While the domestic film industry in Pakistan has seen a revival recently, it is dwarfed by India's Bollywood. Pakistani actors have increasingly appeared in big-budget Bollywood films. |
Some Indian actors, however, came to the defense of their Pakistani counterparts. |
"They are artists. These are two different subjects. They were terrorists; these are artists. What do you think, artists are terrorists?" Salman Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, said to reporters when asked if he agreed that the actors should be forced out. |
Khurram Gultasab, general manager at Super Cinemas, which runs 10 cinemas in Pakistan’s Punjab Province, said his group would also not be screening Indian films. |
"I think we should show solidarity with our army engaged at very hot borders right now and secondly with our actors," he said, adding that the move was by cinema owners themselves and not by government directions. |
Other cinemas in Pakistan posted on social media saying they would not be showing Indian films following last week’s violence. |
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A towering tarantula, sparkling and casting shadowed designs that shift in response to the sounds around it. |
Video images of your face, fractured into an alternative reality and projected onto the side of a building. |
A 3-D, walk-through drawing strung beneath the portal of the Taos Plaza. |
You can see all this and more in the second year of an emerging celebration of art that you can’t hang on a wall or fit in a gallery: The Paseo, a collection of installations, performance art and more that can be seen 1-10 p.m. today and Saturday in and around the Taos Plaza and Historic District. |
And it all started because the Taos Fall Arts Festival last year lost its convention center venue. |
But, worried that the energy would dissipate with that festival spread out into different, smaller venues, he said he proposed an outdoor arts show that would connect those disparate locations. |
The Paseo was born and, although he still considers it an experiment, Thomas said it had as many as 3,000 people on the streets at any one time last year exploring the offerings – up until 10 p.m. in a town that apparently often is as sleepy as Santa Fe by that time. |
It’s gotten bigger this year, with more than 70 artists contributing to 31 art installations. Some responded to a call for artists, while others were invited to apply, with all going through a jury for the final selection, he said. |
That means a good portion of it is interactive, being created by and responding to its audience. |
So Santa Fe’s Axle Contemporary will be there with “Järmark,” a collaboration with video pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka, and mathematician Rob Shaw, inspired in part by traveling fairs and funhouse mirrors. They’re the ones who will take images of participants into fractured projections. |
The tarantula, or “TaranTula,” as the work is titled, is a creation of Taos-based and Sweden-born Christina Sporrong. It will be joined in scale by Taos artist Christian Ristow’s “Fledgling,” a metal, mechanical bird that visitors can climb into and power pedals that set its wings in motion. |
The 3-D string drawing, lit at night, comes from Sabrina Barrios, born and raised in Brazil, currently residing in Brooklyn. “That’s what Paseo is about: taking spaces we’ve become so used to and making them come alive, waking us up,” Thomas said. |
While 16 installations by New Mexico artists (five by Taos artists) are featured, the remainder of them, such as Barrios, are coming from outside the state. |
For instance, Nettrice Gaskins of Boston is bringing sound and video projections that can be paired with a special glove so viewers can convert colors from the images into musical notes and play audio samples with their fingertips. |
She also visited Taos this summer to work with local youths on creating an interactive art installation as part of STEMarts Lab@The Paseo and present the sound- and movement-generated graphics on the adobe walls of Luna Chapel on Kit Carson Road. |
That program, spearheaded by Agnes Chavez, is part of The Paseo’s educational outreach, in which artists visit before the festival to work with middle- and high-school students, introducing them to the technical components of the art that they create. |
“It’s an opportunity for them to engage more with the community,” Thomas said. |
Some eight artists this year are working with students in 12 workshops to come up with artworks that will be part of The Paseo. |
Also tied in with the event are exhibitions at some galleries that are hosting artists who “align with Paseo’s goal and vision,” according to Thomas. |
Other events are planned, including an after-party at Taos Mesa Brewing from 9 p.m. Saturday to 1 a.m. Sunday featuring an audio/visual performance with Conscious Kalling, Sattva Ananda and Buddha Bass ($10 in advance, $15 at the door) and a Pecha Kucha Night, 7 p.m. Sunday at the Taos Center for the Arts, in which art... |
If sea levels rise and Pacific nations go under water — what happens to maritime boundaries? |
Related Story: Fact check: Is the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu growing, and not sinking? |
Rising seas, devastating cyclones, ferocious storm surges. |
Scientists have long predicted climate change could pose an existential threat to the tiny island nations which dot the Pacific. |
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