Davis Love III won the Children's Miracle Network Classic at Disney on Sunday, closing with an 8-under 64 for a one-shot victory over Tommy Gainey in the final PGA Tour event of the year.
Love scrambled for pars on the final two holes, including a tough bunker shot to 3 feet on the 18th, to hold off a late charge from Gainey, who shot 30 on the back nine …
OVER the last few weeks, my officers have been very busy in therun up to Hallowe'en and fireworks night.
Hallowe'en festivities are now over and I am hoping it was a safeand enjoyable time for you all.
Fireworks night is coming up this weekend, so the busy timedoesn't stop for us.
My officers have been educating shops in the area about theimportance of checking for ID when selling fireworks. Every year, itis usually only a minority of people that spoil it for the rest byusing fireworks in a dangerous and antisocial way.
I want to reassure you that we have extra patrols dedicated toensuring that people act in a responsible …
As of Friday, July 27, 2007, at least 3,646 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,992 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.
The AP count is seven more than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
The British military has reported 163 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 21; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; …
When experts sketch out nightmare hurricane scenarios, a New York strike tends to be high on the list.
Besides shaking skyscrapers, a major hurricane could send the Atlantic Ocean surging into the nation's largest city, flooding Wall Street, subways and densely packed neighborhoods.
As a new hurricane season starts Monday, some scientists and engineers are floating an ambitious solution: Barriers to choke off the surging sea and protect flood-prone areas.
The plan involves deploying giant barriers and gates that would move into place _ in some cases rising out of the water _ for storms. One proposal calls for a 5-mile-long barrier between New Jersey …
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — Ali Khaseif Housani made the decisive save and then Mohamed Saeed Alshehhi stepped up to secure the United Arab Emirates' 9-8 win on penalties in a quarterfinal against North Korea at the Asian Games.
The narrow victory Friday earned UAE a semifinal spot against South Korea, which beat Uzbekistan 3-1 in extra time.
In other quarterfinals, Iran edged Oman 1-0 to move into a semifinal against Japan, a 1-0 winner over Bryan Robson's Thailand squad.
The UAE-North Korea match was locked 0-0 after extra time, forcing a shootout which progressed to 8-8 before goalkeeper Housani saved Ri Chol Myong's attempt.
Alshehhi beat the Korean 'keeper with …
ABSTRACT
Background: The Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia (SMPBC) implemented voluntary, facilitated referral to diagnostic imaging ("Fast Track") after testing 5 interventions to reduce time from an abnormal screening mammogram to diagnosis. The purpose of this study was to compare time intervals for patients evaluated through the Fast Track process with patients who were not.
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Beijing Olympic organizers voiced confidence Monday about security arrangements for the August Games, a day after a Communist Party official said authorities had foiled a plot by Islamic terrorists targeting the event.
"An efficient Olympic security command system is in place," Sun Weide, a spokesman for the organizing committee, told The Associated Press. "We're confident of holding a peaceful and safe Olympic Games."
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Abstract
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) provides a common language for diagnoses and assessment of trauma victims, including Holocaust survivors. Many of these survivors established post-war families and it is here that we began to witness the possibility of trauma transmission. Parental communication regarding the Holocaust, often characterized by obsessive re-telling or all-consuming silence, and strong family ties are implicated in the theoretical literature on trauma transmission. Terms such as vicarious, empathic, and secondary traumatization have been used to describe intergenerational trauma transmission. The crucial …
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Objective: The aim of this study was to examine whether there is a difference in the behavioural characteristics of community- and clinic-based children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Korea.
Method: The study included 75 community-based and 72 clinic-based subjects with ADHD. The parents of all the children completed the parent versions of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).
Results: The community-based ADHD subjects scored significantly higher (P < 0.01) than clinic-based subjects in the Somatic Complaints and Delinquent Behaviour profiles of the CBCL. The community-based subjects with ADHD, combined subtype, showed significantly higher mean scores in the Somatic Complaints (P < 0.01) and Thought Problems (P < 0.05) profiles than the clinic-based subjects with ADHD, combined subtype.
Conclusion: These findings suggest the possibility of an increased incidence of behavioural or emotional problems in community-based ADHD subjects when compared with clinic-based subjects in Korea.
(Can J Psychiatry 2007;52:61-65)
Information on funding and support and author affiliations appears at the end of the article.
Clinical Implications
* There is a possibility that community-based ADHD subjects show more psychiatric problems than clinic-based subjects in developing countries.
* The population-based samples of ADHD in Korea might be prone to an increased incidence of internalizing problems due to the underdetection of ADHD symptoms and a lack of adequate support from the community.
* Clinicians should consider the possibility of higher levels of associated psychopathology in population-based subjects with ADHD, compared with clinic-based ADHD subjects, in developing nations.
Limitations
* The sample size of subjects with ADHD was relatively small.
* The subjects might not be representative of all the children with ADHD in Korea.
Key Words: attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Child Behavior Checklist, community
Abbreviations used in this article
ADHD attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
CBCL Child Behavior Checklist
K-SADS-PL Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime Version
SD standard deviation
ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsive behaviour that, according to the DSM-IV criteria, affects about 3% to 5% of school-age children.1 It has been suggested that clinic-based ADHD subjects tend to show more psychiatric symptoms and impairment than community-based subjects.2 However, most of the ADHD literature is based on clinic samples of children, which has the limitation of not representing most children in the community.
In this study, we report the CBCL3 profiles of community- and clinic-based children with ADHD in Korea. The CBCL has been used in school and clinical settings and is known to be useful for identifying children with ADHD.4,5 The aim of this study is to determine whether there is a difference in behavioural characteristics between these 2 groups.
Methods
Subjects
This study included 75 community-based subjects with ADHD and 72 outpatients with ADHD attending the child and adolescent psychiatry clinic of Seoul National University Hospital in Korea. For the recruitment of the commuity-based sample, a total of 2438 elementary school students (1st- to 3rd-year levels) from Chuncheon and Gunsan (mid-sized cities in Korea) were selected with guidance from the schools' administrations. Prior to inclusion, informed consent was obtained from parents, and assent was obtained from the participating children. In the next phase, we selected 369 individuals (15.1%) as potential participants, which was in accordance with the procedures of a previous study.6 We asked the parents of these potential subjects to participate in the detailed assessment of their children and obtained agreement in 184 cases (49.9%). There were no significant differences in the demographic characteristics of the excluded and included subjects. Of the 184 children included in the study, 75 were diagnosed as having ADHD.
Assessments
The parents of all the children with ADHD completed the parent versions of the CBCL.3 Following the CBCL's completion, the children were accompanied by their parents during a detailed psychiatric interview conducted by an experienced child and adolescent psychiatrist. The psychiatrist who conducted the interview was blinded to the CBCL results. The Korean version of the CBCL is known to have good validity and reliability.7 Diagnostic assessments of psychiatric disorders, including ADHD, were made with the K-SADS-PL according to the DSM-IV criteria.8 The Korean version of the K-SADS-PL was standardized by Kirn and colleagues,9 All the children with ADHD were drug-naive at the time of recruitment.
Statistical Analysis
Group differences in the clinical variables involving continuous data were computed with an independent 2-sample t test or 1-way analysis of covariance. Between-group comparisons involving categorical data were assessed using the chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. The significance level was set at P= 0.05 (2-tailed).
Results
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics
The demographic and clinical characteristics of the ADHD subjects are presented in Table 1. The mean age of the community-based children with ADHD was 7.97 years, SD 0.80 years, which was significantly different (P < 0.001) from that of the clinic-based subjects, who had a mean age of 9.33 years, SD 2.39 years. There were no significant differences in the percentages of the ADHD subtypes or comorbid disorders between the 2 groups.
Comparison of the CBCL Results Between Community and Clinic-Based Subjects With ADHD
Compared with the clinic-based subjects with ADHD, community-based subjects had significantly higher mean scores for the Somatic Complaints and Delinquent Behaviour profiles (Table 2) on the CBCL (P < 0.01).
The mean CBCL scores with regard to the Somatic Complaints and Thought Problems profiles were significantly higher (P < 0.01 and P < 0.05, respectively) in the community-based children (aged 8.23 years, SD 0.66 years, n = 40) than in the clinic-based children with ADHD combined subtype (aged 9.16 years, SD 2.73 years, n = 32). There were no significant differences in the CBCL results between the community- and clinic-based subjects with ADHD, inattentive type (data not shown).
Discussion
According to the CBCL results in this study, the community-based subjects with ADHD showed an increased incidence of behavioural or emotional problems, compared with the clinic-based subjects. These results were contrary to our expectations, since it was previously reported that clinic-based samples of ADHD patients tend to have more psychiatric problems than population-based samples.2 The findings of this study are meaningful because the possible influence on the study populations of clinical characteristics (for example, ADHD subtypes and comorbidity) as confounding factors has been removed.
The results of DSM-IV field trials and subsequent work have suggested that children with ADHD, combined subtype, display more externalizing behaviour problems than children with other subtypes, whereas subjects with ADHD, inattentive subtype, exhibit less disruptive behaviour comorbidity than those with other subtypes.10-12 However, there is currently no clear consensus on the association of ADHD subtypes and other forms of psychopathology. Further studies to identify differences in the behavioural characteristics between the community- and clinic-based subjects with ADHD will be required; in addition to including a greater number of participants, future studies should also consider the associated psychopathology of ADHD subtypes.
It is worth noting that the results of this study may have been affected by other factors associated with the sociocultural characteristics of the samples. It has been reported that, in comparison with other cultures, Korean parents are less sensitive to their children's emotional states such as depression and anxiety; rather, they tend to focus mainly on behavioural problems, such as aggressive and delinquent behaviours.13 The higher incidence of somatization problems that was found in the community-based subjects with ADHD in this study may reflect a correlate of other internalizing disorders in the affected children. Previous studies have reported that somatization is frequent in Korean patients with depression and may be a prominent part of the depressive symptomatology.14,15 It is a possible that population-based ADHD samples in Korea might have an increased incidence of internalizing problems owing to an insufficient understanding of ADHD symptoms, underdetection, and a lack of appropriate support or intervention from the community.
An increased incidence of depressive equivalents in our study's community-based ADHD subjects suggests that clinicians should consider the possibility of a higher level of associated psychopathology, compared with clinic-based ADHD subjects, when evaluating population-based ADHD samples in developing nations. However, the results of this study should be interpreted with caution, since the AnxiousDepressed profile of the CBCL was not elevated in the community-based ADHD subjects and the psychopathology was only expressed in depressive equivalents.
It is also noteworthy that, in Korea, there has historically been a lack of understanding of child mental health or child psychiatric disorders, and nationally supported community mental health services for children were only initiated in 2002. Although the country does not have problems with regard to ethnic-based inequities in mental health care,16 financial obstacles, as in other developing countries, still make access to health care difficult.
The results of this study suggest the possibility that community-based children with ADHD have an increased incidence of behavioural or emotional problems when compared with clinic-based children in Korea.
Funding and Support
This article received no funding and no support.
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R�sum� : Comparaison des profils de la Liste de comportement pour les enfants entre des enfants souffrant de trouble d'hyperactivit� avec d�ficit de l'attention en milieu communautaire et clinique, en Cor�e
Objectif : Cette �tude visait � examiner s'il y a une diff�rence dans les caract�ristiques de comportement entre des enfants souffrant de trouble d'hyperactivit� avec d�ficit de l'attention (THADA) en milieu communautaire et clinique, en Cor�e.
M�thode : L'�tude comprenait 75 sujets souffrant du THADA en milieu communautaire et 72 sujets souffrant du THADA en milieu clinique. Les parents de tous les enfants ont rempli les versions pour parents de la Liste de comportement pour les enfants (LCPE).
R�sultats : Les sujets souffrant du THADA en milieu communautaire ont eu des scores significativement plus �lev�s (P < 0,01) que les sujets en milieu clinique en ce qui concerne les plaintes somatiques et les profils de comportement d�linquant de la LCPE. Les sujets souffrant d'un sous-type combin� du THADA en milieu communautaire pr�sentaient des scores moyens significativement plus �lev�s dans les plaintes somatiques (P < 0,01) et les profils de perturbation de la pens�e (P < 0,05) que les sujets souffrant d'un sous-type combin� du THADA en milieu clinique.
Conclusion : Ces r�sultats sugg�rent la possibilit� d'une incidence accrue de probl�mes comportementaux-�motionnels chez les sujets souffrant du THADA en milieu communautaire, lorsqu'on les compare aux sujets en milieu clinique, en Cor�e.
[Author Affiliation]
Cheon-seok Suh, MD1, Jae-won Kim, MD2, Han-ik Yoo, MD3, Jun-won Hwang, MD4, Boong-nyun Kim, MD4, Min-sup Shin, PhD4, Soo-churl Cho, MD4
[Author Affiliation]
Manuscript received May 2006, revised, and accepted September 2006.
1 Staff Physician, Seoul Child Study Center, Seoul, Korea.
2 Clinical Instructor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry,
College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
3 Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Asan Medical
Center, Seoul, Korea.
4 Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, College of
Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Address for correspondence: Dr Jae-won Kim, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, 28 Yongon-Dong, Chongno-Gu, Seoul, Korea; adore412@paran.com
BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged before dawn Tuesday for the killings of 148 Shiites, an official with the prime minister's office said.
Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam's vice president when the regime was ousted four years ago, was the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination attempt against the former leader in the city of Dujail.
The official in the prime minister's office said he was present at the hanging. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to disclose the information.
MONTPELIER, Vt. - An Army investigator recommended that no charges be filed against a U.S. Special Forces machine gunner who killed two allied soldiers during a nighttime battle last year in Afghanistan, according to a review of documents by The Associated Press.
The recommendation is in reports released by the Army on Tuesday about the friendly fire deaths of Vermont National Guard 1st Sgt. John Thomas Stone, 52, and Canadian Pvt. Robert Costall, 22.
Their deaths, "while regrettable, are understandable in the context of this firefight," said one document, a report written by an American Army officer whose name was blacked out.
It said an "inaccurate target identification" that night by the gunner, who was not identified, caused him to fire at a rooftop position where Stone and other soldiers were crouched behind a wall fighting off an attack by Taliban forces.
The reports concluded that an inadequate base defense plan, fatigue, lack of communication from headquarters and significant supply problems at the base in southern Afghanistan contributed to the shootings.
On Monday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the AP, the military released the documents.
The Special Forces report said the small Forward Operating Base Robinson, established about a month before a March 28, 2006, attack by Taliban forces, had been under near daily attack. It had acute supply problems and its soldiers were exhausted, the report said.
At one point in February, soon after the base was established, the Americans had to use their own money to buy food for the Afghan soldiers with them, the report said.
Canadian reinforcements arrived by helicopter after dark at the same time an 80-vehicle supply convoy arrived, creating confusion about where the vehicles and soldiers should be placed, the reports said.
Stone was on his third tour in Afghanistan. He joined the Army in 1971 in part to try to learn what happened to his brother, a freelance photographer who disappeared in Cambodia in 1970 with Sean Flynn, the son of the actor Errol Flynn.
Stone's companion, Rose Loving, called the fatal shootings a tragedy and said they were the result of a series of mistakes by military commanders in Afghanistan. A listing for Costall's family in Canada could not be found.
WOODS OVERCOMES SHAKY FINISH, DIMARCO'S SURGE TO WIN 4TH GREENJACKET, 1ST MAJOR IN 3 YEARS
MASTERS COVERAGE, PAGES 112-115
THE credit crisis story has plenty of bad guys. Banks and brokersthought sub-prime mortgages were a new way to get rich, whileWashington politicians served as enablers.
But some of us are complicit as well because we, like the federalgovernment, have abandoned the concept of deferred gratification,and in doing so have run up billions of dollars of debt that addedto the strain on the credit system.
Millions of Americans want what they want now, regardless oftheir ability to pay for it. Our post-Great Depression doctrine ofsaving first, buying later has largely has disappeared in a tsunamiof demand and spending.
"There are very few people in the world today who can afford tolive like Americans," said financial author Bill Bonner.
Too bad Americans are among them."
In 2007, the average American household's credit card debt wasjust under $10,000.
Forty percent of Americans were "revolvers," carrying debt overfrom month to month - resulting in $18 billion in penalty fees, up26 percent from the year before.
Millions of Americans have turned to the equity in their homesfor more cash.
"I.O.U.S.A. One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt" reports: "Throughrefinancing, they believed that they could take money out of theirhome at any time - and that the ATM would never run out of money."
That worked as long as home prices were rising, but when pricesfell, debt grew larger than the value of the home, contributing to adramatic increase in foreclosures.
The endless pursuit to "keep up with the Joneses" and theavailability of easy money has left Americans maxed out.
Savings? Fugetaboutit.
I.O.U.S.A reports that personal savings in this country amount to2 percent of Gross Domestic Product. In China, the savings rate is20 times that.
In 2005 and 2006, Americans spent more than they took in.
That's a negative savings rate. That hasn't happened since theGreat Depression.
In Washington, the federal debt is approaching $10 trillion, andcould go higher with the Wall Street bailout. Unfunded promises inSocial Security and Medicare total $44 trillion, according to formerU.S. Comptroller General David Walker.
The trustees of our national treasure have abdicated theirresponsibility while blithely indebting future generations. Butmillions of us at home also have engaged in our own kind of spendinggluttony.
These two massive indulgences and failures of financial judgmentserve as the ultimate disrespect to the American Dream.
John Nestler, in his 1973 essay "The Freeman," wrote:
"The American Dream has undergone a metamorphosis from principlesto materialism. When people are concerned more with attainment ofthings than with the maintenance of principles, it is a sign ofmoral decay. And it is through such decay that loss of freedomoccurs."
If we continue along our chosen path we may lose more than justmoney.
Friday, June 11
White Party, 9 p.m. The second annual bar crawl, taking place at the Chrome Cat, Spiral Dance Bar, Grand Cafe and Esquire Club. Admission: $ 1 0. Hosted by Michigan Pride. Old Town, Lansing, www.michiganpride.org
Saturday, June 12
Pride March and Rally, 12 p.m. A march with floats down Grand Avenue leading to a rally on the Capitol steps, with performance by Grand Marshal Chely Wright. Registration for floats and vehicles is $25. Michigan Pride, Lansing, www. michiganpride.org
Diversity Festival, 12 p.m. Includes vendors, youth area, open-air bar and live performances, including a performance and book signing by out country artist and Pride Grand Marshal Chely Wright. Admission: $5. Michigan Pride, Burchard Park, Old Town, Lansing, www. michiganpride.org
Commitment Ceremony, 2:15 p.m. Show your love during a group ceremony as part of Michigan Pride. Michigan Pride, Lansing, www. michiganpride.org
Pride Afterparty, 9 p.m. Post-pride, party at Spiral Dance Bar, Sir Pizza, the Chrome Cat and Grand Cafe with live performances, food, drink specials and more. Michigan Pride, Grand River Ave., Lansing, www.michiganpride.org
Sunday, June 13
Sunday Tea Dance, U a.m. The party continues after Pride with a rehab brunch, including food and drink specials. Chrome Cat and Sprial Dance Bar, 226 E. Grand River Ave., Lansing. www.thechromecat.com
See Michigan Pride entertainment coverage beginning onpage 19 of this edition.
A Woodridge teenager faces reckless homicide and drunken drivingcharges after her car crashed in Bolingbrook early Friday, killingtwo teenagers and leaving a third in critical condition, officialssaid.
But the father of one of the victims said he hopes officialsdon't pursue the charges.
"I think it would be horrible if they brought charges againstthe girl. I believe it was an accident," said Neal Price of DownersGrove.Two counts of reckless homicide and one of aggravated drivingunder the influence were filed Friday against Amanda M. Turner, 17,of the first block of Brook Court, Woodridge, the DuPage Countystate's attorney's office said.Bond was set at $3 million for Turner, who will be arrested whenshe is released from the hospital, the state's attorney's officesaid. The reckless homicide charge carries a penalty of three to 14years in prison.Pronounced dead at the scene were front-seat passengers JoleneTurner, 15, a relative of Amanda Turner's who lived at the sameaddress, and Price's son Corey, 17, who had worked with Amanda Turnerat a quick-lube business.Ryan Hobbs, 18, of Westmont, was in critical condition at EdwardHospital, where Turner was in good condition, officials said.Hobbs' brother Steve, 21, was treated and released, as wasPrice's brother Nicholas, 18, officials said.The accident occurred about 2:15 a.m. when a Ford Mustang Turnerwas driving northbound in the 900 block of Ashbury left the roadwayand hit a tree in the parkway, Bolingbrook police said.Neal Price and his wife, Gayle, were stunned by the loss oftheir son. Neal said of Corey, "He was a fun-loving boy. He waswell-liked and had a good work ethic."Gayle Price said Corey was "a responsible kid. He was in thewrong place at the wrong time. He has lots of friends. He will bemissed."
Contrary to Dennis Byrne's cynical column (March 26), we at theCenter for Science in the Public Interest are not "folks who maketheir living telling us how miserable our lives are." Our realpurpose is much simpler: to give American consumers concise, usefulinformation about the food they eat.
Most people actually are grateful to have this information.According to a national survey we commissioned last year, fully halfof the American public has heard of our studies. Of those, more than80 percent approve and more than 40 percent say they have madechanges in their dining-out habits as a result.
There is no doubt that our typical high-calorie, high-fat,high-sodium diet leads to tremendous health problems. Indeed,current data show that poor diet and lack of exercise, takentogether, contribute to as many preventable deaths each year assmoking. With nearly half the national food dollar being spentoutside the home, such studies as ours ought to be encouraged, notbelittled. Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., executive director, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington Tears of a Clown
Now that the Chicago mayoral election is over, it's time for anapology. Personal attacks are common in Chicago politics, but duringthis election, more than just feelings were hurt.
Since the primary, the media and some talk radio hosts havecondescendingly belittled (Republican candidate) Ray Wardingley forplaying "Spanky the Clown." What they have forgotten is thatWardingley dressed up as a clown to raise money to help children withcancer. Some people don't have the kind of money it takes to makebig cash donations or go to fancy fund-raisers. Those of us who canafford to give money have to help people less fortunate by helping ata soup kitchen, or volunteering at Special Olympics, or maybe playinga clown to help raise money.
Say what you will about his politics, but to attack Wardingleyfor trying to help dying children is sick. David J. Haynes, Irving Park Wake Up, Dads
I agree wholeheartedly with Stella Foster's Personal View,"Mothers: Don't Subject Your Kids to Abusive Men," on March 28. I ama father of two children and would be truly concerned if my wife andI were to divorce and she subjected not only herself but also mychildren to an abusive relationship. I commend Foster for giving awake-up call to not only the women of Chicago but also the men.
I would like to send out a plea to the fathers of these childrento stand up and be men and be accountable for your children'swelfare. When you see that their mothers are in unhealthyrelationships, step in and get your children out of that environment.We cannot put all of the burden of child-rearing on the woman.
It's infuriating to see that our society has fallen to the pointthat we as parents in our search for love would sacrifice ourchildren to please someone who may or may not be that destined "soulmate." Terrance L. Harrington, West Garfield Park Speaking the Truth
The Personal View (March 28) by Stella Foster made a validpoint: Too many mothers are permitting their children to be abused bythe men they choose to bring into their lives.
Today, far too many children are victims of abuse, in some casesso tragic that they result in permanent disability or death. Who canchildren trust if they can't trust their mothers? Foster has a wayof stating her point of view with simplicity, emotion, conviction andhonesty. Delores J. Brooks, Greater Grand Crossing Give Us More Stella
It is long overdue for the daily papers to give homage to theopinions of black women like Stella Foster. We are a diverse group.Normally, the major media present us only as victims of crime or asdrug-crazed, abusive moms. I'd like to see regular columns byFoster. Her commentary (Personal View, March 28) is something tolook forward to. When I read her featured commentary, I get theimpression we're talking on the telephone like regular "homeys." Helen Wright, Douglas Kill Death Penalty
At the same time Pope John Paul II in his encyclical was movingtoward an absolute ban on the death penalty, Illinois announced itwould again become a serial killer by executing two citizens in adouble-header.
The United States is the only advanced country that continues tokill people to show that killing is wrong. The only purpose isrevenge; a civilized country should not engage in revenge. H. J. Oettinger, Loop
Oak Park scored six runs in the first inning, then rode tournamentMVP Sean Lawrence's no-hitter to an 11-0 victory over St. Laurenceyesterday for its second summer league championship in a row.
Lawrence faced 17 batters in the five-inning rout, struck out sixand walked one as the Huskies (30-5) capped the Illinois High SchoolAssociation's double-elimination tournament at North Central Collegein Naperville by beating St. Laurence twice after losing to theVikings Tuesday.
Lawrence, who was 3-0 in the five-day event and didn't permit arun in 11 2/3 innings, was backed by a 12-hit attack triggered byMatt Marino (three hits, two RBI), Joe Rumoro (two RBI) and BrennenKeefe (three hits, one RBI).
For the second game in a row, St. Laurence was betrayed by itsdefense. The Vikings, who made four errors in a four-run inningthat keyed Oak Park's 4-1 victory Wednesday, made three errors in the first that led to five unearnedruns. Marino's two-run double was the big hit.
"Lawrence is the best pitcher in the tournament," said St.Laurence coach Ron Unavitch, closing an 18-6 campaign. "He has goodstuff and when they got ahead, we had to come to him.
"Yesterday was the key. We had a lot of chances early and couldn't come through. We went downhill from there."
Oak Park coach Jack Kaiser also praised Lawrence, who stole thethunder from Huskie star Ben Shelton.
"Lawrence really did a great job today," Kaiser said. "He oftenfights the umpires when he thinks they miss a call. I didn't see anyof that today. I could tell he wasn't getting tired. He wantedit."
"I was wild last spring," Lawrence said. "Now I'm gaining morecomposure. I'm trying to concentrate on taking things in stride.I get upset when I throw the ball too high and then I start to fightmyself. I'm trying to get out of that habit."
It was Oak Park's fourth shutout and second no-hitter (Shelton hadthe other) in its last six games. More important, it capped anothersuccessful season for one of the state's winningest programs.
Oak Park won the Class AA championship in 1981 and qualified forthe final four in 1984, 1985 and 1986. In addition to sweeping twosuccessive summer league titles, several players were members of OakPark teams that qualified for the Pony League World Series four timesin the last five years, including a third-place finish in 1985.
"We have a great system from Pony League on up," Kaiser said."The coaches do a great job. Success breeds success. The kidshave been there and they know how to react to the pressure."
The world's forensic accountants have their work cut out for them with the huge numbers of corporate financial crimes increasingly being committed. Many reports suggest that if something isn't done now, financial finagling will pose a major danger to businesses around the globe in the coming millennium.
In a special report on money laundering published in The Report on Crime and Profiteering, a privately published newsletter, Bill Dovey, CA who is a partner at Deloitte & Touche based in Toronto and chair of the CICA's Alliance for Excellence in Investigative and Forensic Accounting says that many companies can be enticed or unknowingly drawn into a money laundering operation. One way that this happens is when a small to medium-sized company becomes addicted to the large sums of cash a customer brings in on a regular basis; the firm may factor the money into its cash flow, and into its business plans and projections. The owner or owners can eventually lose control of their business: the supplier of the cash may, for instance, go to them and ask to invest in or purchase half of the business. The owner(s) would feel they have no choice but to comply because if they refuse, the cash supplier will take his money to their competitors.
In this way, says Dovey, the business becomes part of the infrastructure of organized crime. For a firm that relies on its public image, the discovery that it has been part of a money laundering operation can lead to a loss of its reputation - and consumer confidence.
Another article in the newsletter reports that the British press thinks the structure of the Canadian stock market makes it ideal for individual and organized financial criminals. The Observer newspaper revealed that a confidential 1995 British report on Operation Sword - a UK investigation into a money laundering ring - claims that the Canadian stock market was used by the ring to legitimize itself. According to the report, says The Observer, the ring floated a corporation made up of companies whose assets and stocks had been artificially expanded by the profits of crime.
Adrian du Plessis, a Vancouver-based investigator, agrees with the assessment of the British press. Du Plessis wrote a number of articles on the scandal in which TSElisted company YBM-Magnex was alleged to have ties with Russian organized crime. This summer, YBM's Pennsylvania offices were raided by US federal agents, the company's stock was halted on the TSE, and Deloitte & Touche resigned as the firm's auditors. According to du Plessis, two factors that permit such situations to develop in Canada are its geographic expanse, as well as lax officials.
On the positive side, a new book put out by the Institute of Internal Auditors may help companies gain a better understanding of financial fraud. Million-Dollar Frauds, by Gary McKechnie and Nancy Howell, is an examination of 11 case studies of some of the most publicized white-collar crimes of the past decade. The authors give insightful views on what went wrong, why and how. They tell us who is most likely to commit corporate crime: post-secondary educated, professional males who have been promoted in the company to the rank of senior executive. They are usually unsupervised and unrestrained by upper management, and their crimes are often the result of inflated egos run rampant. Two of the key ingredients in most frauds, the authors say, are need and opportunity
The book chronicles and dissects such celebrated crimes as the Kidder Peabody Group's loss of over $250 million as a result of the risky dealings and phantom trades of aptly named trader Joseph Jett, 36, who sped to the top, becoming company superstar just a few months before being exposed as a "rogue trader." There is also the case of Cheating Charles Keating, former chairman of.lmerican Continental Corporation, who "bought" US senators and had them press the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to ignore his shady business practices with Savings & Loan thrifts. People who followed that story will remember that the problems caused by Keating's cheating cost US taxpayers more than $3 billion to fix. The most incredible case involves thoroughly incompetent bond trader Toshihide Iguchi of Japan's Daiwa Bank, who lost the bank $1.1 billion in 11 years, but covered his tracks enough to convince his bosses that he was making millions.
The book gives auditing professionals and management executives inside information on these fraud cases, and provides valuable information on detecting and preventing fraud; clearly, this is a timely book that may help Canadian companies deal with a growing problem. Okey Chigbo
HOUSTON (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals clinch NL wild-card berth.
The attorney general's office says it will publish the results of an inquiry Thursday into allegations by an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee that Britain was complicit in his torture.
Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian who moved to Britain as a teenager, was arrested in Pakistan in 2002. He says he was tortured in Pakistan and in Morocco, before he was transferred to Guantanamo in 2004.
Mohamed says British intelligence knew about his treatment but failed to act. Britain's government says it does not condone torture.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown ordered the country's chief legal adviser to examine the allegations. The attorney general's office said Thursday it would publish the results later in the day.
The Cubs are in first place with a cross-your-fingers shot atgoing to their first World Series in 44 years, and Neil Hartigan istelling us "there's not a dime's difference" between Jim Edgar andJim Thompson.
The Bears have just traded away Super Bowl quarterback JimMcMahon, and Jim Edgar is telling us that Hartigan is a wishy-washypolitician who lacks the "guts to govern."
Nothing personal, but do these guys really think anyone ispaying attention, or cares at this point what they are saying?
This is still the summer of 1989. The Cubs will be back inspring training before the 1990 Illinois primary election is heldnext March.
Kids not yet conceived will be born, we'll all have paid anotheryear's taxes, another summer will have come and gone, and some of uswill have passed two more birthdays before any of us get to vote forDemocrat Hartigan or Republican Edgar for governor in the November,1990, general election.
And yet, there they - and a load of other candidates for otheroffices - are, out there blowing in the wind.
They are fortunate, actually, that no one is paying attention.Because the only important truth currently on public display is thatour politicians have saddled Illinois and its voters with what has tobe one of the country's dumbest election schedules.
We complain uselessly about the presidential campaign marathon,which now runs about two years. But consider our own:
Candidates for governor and other state offices start announcingtheir candidacies in June and July of the year before the election.They file their nominating papers in December. The primary is notuntil March of the next year. The election is in November - which atthe moment is still nearly 15 months off. And the winners do not, ofcourse, actually take office until the following January.
The entire process thus slops over into three calendar years.And it produces a situation in which candidates often are talkingabout outdated matters and are often able to duck more currentissues.
Because the Legislature never gets around to doing or decidinganything by March, for instance, candidates can get through theprimary talking about what last year's Legislature did instead ofwhat this one is doing.
Right now, for instance, Hartigan appears to be running againstGov. Thompson, who is not a candidate, rather than Edgar, who is. Heis hammering the Republicans for raising taxes as if unaware thatthis year's income tax boost was crafted principally by DemocraticHouse Speaker Michael Madigan.
There is a lot more irrelevance than illumination in all ofthis. But what is mainly wrong is that there is too much of it andit goes on too damn long.
It is numbing and it is unnecessary, especially so in the caseof candidates like Hartigan and Edgar (and most of the others thisyear) who have been around for semi-ever. Name recognition is farless a problem than overexposure.
It is useless, of course, to expect the candidates to pipe downand disappear until, say, next Valentine's Day. But there is asolution - a solution that was, in fact, available this year: A billin the Legislature to move the primary from March to September.
That would have given us a far shorter and more civilizedelection season of the kind most states already have. But the bossesof both political parties scuttled the bill and it wasunceremoniously buried, a too-common fate of civilized solutions inSpringfield. Now there is something for Hartigan, Edgar and theothers to talk about - but not yet, please.
Raymond R. Coffey is the editor of the editorial pages.
Democrat Barack Obama blamed Washington for the country's economic woes Monday and sought to link Republican rival John McCain to President George W. Bush's policies as the presidential candidates maneuvered for the upper hand on a top concern of voters.
"It hasn't worked, it won't work, and it's time to try something new," Obama said of the country's current economic policies under a Republican president, in remarks the Democrat was to deliver later in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The economy, and especially its impact on the middle class, has emerged as the central focus of the presidential campaign, given skyrocketing gas prices, high job losses and rising food costs. Both candidates were launching weeklong efforts to highlight their differences on the issues.
Both Obama and McCain sought to send a message to those feeling the biggest economic pinch: I feel your pain.
In North Carolina, Obama lamented job losses and foreclosures, saying: "For millions of families, these everyday worries and long-term anxieties have grown considerably worse over the last year."
He also took a swing at McCain and Bush, lumping the two Republicans together.
"As our world and our economy have changed, only Washington has stood still. The progress we made during the 1990s was quickly reversed by an administration with a single philosophy that is as old as it is misguided _ reward not work, not success, but pure wealth," Obama said, arguing that Bush policies were skewed toward big corporations and multimillionaires.
He said that strategy has failed badly and that McCain offers "exactly what George Bush has done for the last eight years."
Obama chided McCain for saying at one point that the country has made "great progress economically" under Bush. "He believes we're on the right track," Obama said of McCain.
"I won't stand here and pretend that we can or should undo the economic transformations that have taken place over the last few decades," Obama said. "There are jobs that aren't coming back and this world will always be more competitive. But I do believe that if all of us are willing to share the burdens and benefits of this new economy, then all of us will prosper _ not just because government makes it so, but because we're willing to take responsibility as individuals to work harder and think more and innovate further."
As Obama was traveling to North Carolina, his campaign and the Democratic National Committee announced a departure from previous conventions.
They said Obama will accept his party's presidential nomination before up to 76,000 people at the Denver Broncos' football stadium on the last night of the Democratic Party convention instead of the smaller Pepsi Center, which can accommodate 21,000.
The convention begins Aug. 25 and Obama is to speak Aug. 28.
Greenland voters overwhelmingly approved a plan to seek more autonomy from Denmark and take advantage of oil reserves that may lie off the glacial island, official results showed Wednesday.
The Arctic island's election commission said 76 percent of voters supported the referendum, which sets new rules on splitting future oil revenue with Denmark. The vote was seen as a key step toward independence for the semiautonomous territory, which relies on Danish subsidies.
The referendum supported by Denmark calls for the small, mostly Inuit population to take control over the local police force, courts and coast guard and to make Greenlandic, an Inuit tongue, the official language.
Voters turned up at voting stations in 18 municipalities across the island, from the capital, Nuuk, just below the Arctic Circle to the remote northern outpost of Siorapaluk, where 24-hour darkness reigns during wintertime. About 72 percent of Greenland's nearly 40,000 voters turned out despite subfreezing temperatures in many places.
The plan is now expected to be approved by the Danish and Greenlandic parliaments and go into effect on June 21, the giant island's national day.
"The tears are running down my cheeks," said Greenland Premier Hans Enoksen, who put his fists up in the air in a sign of victory as it became clear the referendum would win. "We have said 'yes' to the right of self-determination, and with this we have accepted a great responsibility."
Drilling for oil and gas in the deep ocean off Greenland's west coast resumed in 2001, three decades after a previous effort failed to find petroleum. Exploration so far has been unsuccessful, but other countries in the northern region are staking their claims to natural resources exposed by the melting of the Arctic ice cap.
The plan is meant to allow the eventual phasing-out of an annual Danish subsidy of about 3.5 billion kroner ($588 million), which accounts for two-thirds of the island's economy. It would give Greenland the first 75 million kroner ($12.6 million) of annual oil revenue. Any income beyond that would be shared equally between Greenland and Denmark.
The current agreement states that the first 500 million kroner ($84 million) of oil revenue should be shared equally, and that the division of any amount beyond that must be negotiated.
"The Greenland people have yesterday given a clear 'yes' to self-determination within the (Danish) realm," Fogh Rasmussen said.
Greenland became a Danish colony in 1775 and remained so until 1953, when Denmark revised its constitution and made the island a province. Under the 1979 Home Rule Act, Greenland got its own parliament and government, and self-determination in health care, schools and social services.
Foreign and military affairs are controlled by Copenhagen and Denmark's Queen Margrethe is the head of state.
All of Greenland's main political groups supported more autonomy except the small opposition Democrats, who questioned whether the island can afford to take over the more than 30 new areas of responsibility outlined in the referendum.
