Saturday, 12 August 2006
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| OT: ( And old news ? ) July hottest month in Netherlands in 300 years Raving Loonie 02:11:01 |
| | Tue Jul 25, 7:59 AM ET
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - July 2006 is on track to be the hottest month in
the Netherlands since temperatures were first measured in 1706, the
Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said on Tuesday.
Average daily temperatures in the first 24 days of July were a record
of 22.3 degrees Celsius (72.14F) compared with the previous record of
21.4 degrees in July 1994 and normal average temperatures of 17.4, the
KNMI said.
"July 2006 is the hottest month ever," it said in a statement.
Dutch temperature records, launched in the beginning of the 18th
century, are among the oldest in the world. Methodical
thermometer-based records began on a more global basis around 1850.
Dutch meteorologists say they cannot make a direct link between global
warming and the heatwave in Europe, although the KNMI has forecast a
clear warming trend in the next 50 years and an increasing number of
heatwaves.
Temperatures in the Netherlands rose as high as 36-37 degrees last
week, when two people died during a walking event which was later
canceled.
See http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060725/sc_nm/weather_dutch_dc
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| Feedback on adderall dosage Tb 01:58:31 |
| | I posted a brief history (see adderall and abuse) yesterday of my
experience with adderall. I was looking to see if I could get any
feedback from anyone who has known, or knows of anyone that was ever
prescibed a dosage of 270mg per day (3 x 90mg), or anything close to
that. Most of the doctors I spoke to that were willing to comment at
all, said that 270mg per day is a little more than (4) times the
recommended maximum. Can anybody give me some feedback on this?
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| Missing school assignments was Re: Meds: Welbutrin & Effexor MothWrangler 00:57:07 |
| | Karen R. wrote:
marcia wrote the following on 8/8/2006 4:31 PM:> What's up with the missing assignments? Not writing them down? Is this>> typical ADD behavior? How do you solve the problem, other than with>> home schooling, which is really not an option for us?> Some of it is a lack of awareness that there even *is* an assignment, > which has at least two causes:> "I know I'll remember that later so there is no need to write it down."> Simply not seeing the assignment on the board or tuning out the teacher > because s/he is giving the assignment at the end of class and the > attention span is gone by then.> I actually witnessed this once during a parent visitation day. I could > see that my DD had no awareness that the teacher was giving an > assignment at the end of class, so I copied it down and gave it to her > when she got home. She had no clue....
My OS had a teacher who would write down a homework assignment every day
on the same area of the board. That routine never varied. Yet somehow,
my OS managed on a regular basis to miss the fact that work had been
assigned in that class.
And some of it is doing the assignment, but not turning it in. That > happened all the time with my son. I knew he had done the assignment, > because I had stood over him the entire time. But he would never turn it > in.
BTDT. Again and again and again.
My OS wouldn't even notice that other students were passing their
assignments down the rows to the teacher. I don't know how he managed to
miss that, but that's why his in-class assignments weren't turned in.
He also would manage to walk right past teachers who were standing at
the door to the classroom collecting assignments, oblivious.
Once, OS was supposed to have 50 completed note cards on a particular
day for a long-term project.
Before he left for school, I checked, and yes, there indeed were 50
completed cards, held together with a rubber band.
But, when I contacted his teacher later about his poor grade, she told
me that he had only turned in 18 cards.
When I talked with OS, asking, "What happened to the 50 cards?" he
explained that he had been so concerned that he'd forget to turn them in
(as usual), that he had carried them in his hand, not his backpack,
between classes, and somehow, in the hallway, managed to lose the
majority of them without noticing.
When he finally became aware that he no longer had most of the cards, he
went back to look for them in the hallway, but found only a few.
OK. I learned another valuable tip for ADHD students: Just don't put a
rubber band around your notecards, put them in a plastic baggie, and
label the baggie with your name and class. <sigh>
Eventually the crumpled remains would show up when his backpack was > cleaned out. Yes, he did have a folder that was *supposed* to be used to > store homework so he could check it every class and see if he had > something to turn in, but he knew he would remember, so he never checked > it. <sigh>
We had exactly the same experience with homework folders. The same
assignment that went to school to be turned in that day, were almost
always still in the folder when he returned home.
But I don't know if my OS didn't check his folder because he thought he
could remember to turn in assignments, or if he didn't check his folder
because he'd forgotten he *had* a folder to check.
Honestly, except for the fact that he almost always tested well, so had
obviously learned the material, sometimes I wondered if he was even
aware that he was in a class.
And it certainly didn't help that I could not get most teachers to
cooperate and just flat out ask him, personally, for his work.
Teachers would say:
"I can't treat him differently than other students, it wouldn't be
fair." (Well, how many of your students have ADHD?)
Or "I don't have the time." (What? You don't have 30 seconds to
contribute to your student's success?)
Or, "He needs to learn the hard way by failing the class to be
responsible." (What he's learning is that he's a failure who can't
manage to do something as simple as turn in work he's done.)
Or--and I love this one--"I can't remember to do that." Hey, if a
teacher without ADHD can't remember to ask a student for homework, is it
any wonder a student with ADHD can't remember to turn it in?
In hindsight, I should have been more insistent and persistent than I
was to put "teachers must ask OS directly for his assignments every day"
in his 504 plan. I tried on several occasions, but the 504 team wouldn't
agree, so I eventually, I gave up the fight. But I shouldn't have.
In his last two years in school, we arranged with some teachers that OS
could put his homework in the teacher's school mailbox before class. DH
would escort OS into school office in the morning, and make sure that
was done. Other teachers allowed him to submit some assignments via email.
But other teachers were very rigid and insisted that OS had to turn in
his assignments in the same way other students did. Which meant that
they weren't turned in at all. 
We've not had good luck getting some teachers to return calls or emails>> consistently, although others do.> The ones who do are to be treasured. Some schools even post all homework > assignments on a website, so parents can check and verify what their > children are supposed to be doing. But that doesn't help with getting > them to turn it in.
At one point, I was so exasperated that I told OS that the only possible
remaining solution to the problem of his failing to hand in completed
work was for me to go to classes with him and supervise the process.
Nancy
Unique, like everyone else
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| Spam Vashti 00:44:14 |
| | StovePipe wrote:
[snip]> Doesn't any body report spammers in the as-ad?....
Ah, would you be able to tell if they did? ;)
Inquiring SP's want to know...
I didn't see that particular message until you replied to it as my
brilliant free news server filters out quite a bit of that stuff. 
Vashti
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Friday, 11 August 2006
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| ASAD quote 1/22/03 (repeat) MothWrangler 21:09:37 |
| | We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least
once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by
at least one laugh.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
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| Ritalin Crushing Crushed 06:52:23 |
| | If I can start out by saying "why did I do it".
I wasn't seeing the same results from my Ritalin, started crushing it,
which is of course abuse. I want to stop!! To ashamed to talk to my
doctor!!! Is it possible to stop on your own??? I really need my
medication, the right way.
STUPID, STUPID ME!
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| OT: Polish July was hottest in 227 years ... was Re: OT: ( And old news ? ) July hottest month in N Raving Loonie 05:32:26 |
| | Raving Loonie wrote:> Tue Jul 25, 7:59 AM ET>
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - July 2006 is on track to be the hottest month in> the Netherlands since temperatures were first measured in 1706, the> Dutch meteorological institute KNMI said on Tuesday.> Average daily temperatures in the first 24 days of July were a record> of 22.3 degrees Celsius (72.14F) compared with the previous record of> 21.4 degrees in July 1994 and normal average temperatures of 17.4, the> KNMI said.> "July 2006 is the hottest month ever," it said in a statement.> Dutch temperature records, launched in the beginning of the 18th> century, are among the oldest in the world. Methodical> thermometer-based records began on a more global basis around 1850.> Dutch meteorologists say they cannot make a direct link between global> warming and the heatwave in Europe, although the KNMI has forecast a> clear warming trend in the next 50 years and an increasing number of> heatwaves.> Temperatures in the Netherlands rose as high as 36-37 degrees last> week, when two people died during a walking event which was later> canceled.> Polish July was hottest in 227 years
Wed Aug 2, 1:09 PM ET
WARSAW (AFP) - Poland has experienced its hottest July since official
records began 227 years ago, with average mid-afternoon temperatures
hitting 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), the Meteorological
Institute in Warsaw said.
"The level of heat actually experienced by Poles was up to 50 degrees
C, taking into account the air temperature, windspeed, humidity levels
and sunshine," Michal Kowalewski, a weather expert at the institute,
told AFP Wednesday.
In Warsaw, the average temperature in July measured over 24 hours was
23.5 degrees C, or 5.5 degrees C higher than normal.
Temperatures peaked on July 21, with the mercury climbing to 33.9
degrees C in the capital and a sweltering 35.1 degrees C in the
southern city of Krakow, according to the Meteorological Institute.
The heatwave has hit both farmers and city dwellers. "Fruit is half the
usual size because of drought, while people are less alert and tire
more easily," said Kowalewski.
See http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060802/sc_afp/polandweatherheatwave
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Thursday, 10 August 2006
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| ASAD quote 1/24/03 (repeat) MothWrangler 23:35:25 |
| | There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the
conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he
must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though
the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come
to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is
given to him to till.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| ASAD quote 1/20/03 (repeat) MothWrangler 18:48:14 |
| | Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| still here Nessa 17:29:22 |
| | just lurking.... really out of date on ADHD stuff....
Nessa
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it's ok to be stupid
it's ok to have an attitude
it is NOT ok to be stupid AND have an attitude
PICK ONE
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Wednesday, 9 August 2006
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| ASAD quote 1/21/04 (repeat) MothWrangler 23:49:21 |
| | From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are
in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You
can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose
happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is
important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become
destroyers of life.
--Anais Nin
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| Intro Truly Trudy 08:01:41 |
| | Hello, all. I've been lurking off and on for the last year or so. Since I hvae a new med-man and
am now using generic adderall, I thought I'd finally pop my head up over the horizon.
After twice having my complaints about attention written off as due to depression and/or multiple
sclerosis, last summer I finally got a consult with a psychologist not affiliated with my
neurologist... and lo and behold, without the pre-existing bias, the testing came back positive for
ADHD, inattentive type.
I started grad school this fall, but I didn't have my "ducks in a row" so to speak. Took all
incompletes and will now be taking a semester off to catch up. I suspect most of my interactions
here will be around getting schoolwork done, though I'm very keen on learning to better organise
myself in time and space in everyday life as well.
Trudy
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Tuesday, 8 August 2006
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| Ritalin Advice Lcd Confused 20:04:07 |
| | I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 33 and have been taking 60mg of
Ritalin for as long as I can remember.
My psychiatrist recently had to stop practicing medicine due to a
terminal medical condition. The last week months my primary has been
managing my ritilan. This is fine, but I feel like a need a change,
but don't know what, or how to convey this to my doctor without
sounding like I am looking for drugs.
I have felt and known a change was needed for about a year. I started
a new job with a high profile trial law firm. ALL we do is civil jury
trials. Very exciting, very stressfull and requires some long days.
My coworkers tease me about talking to fast. Sometimes I want to look
at them and say would you please speed up!!!! They just don't absorb
the information I am telling them unless I consciously speak SLOOOOWLY.
They also tease me about how fast I do things, or maybe I might cut a
corner to soon and hit my shoulder. The teasing is not mean, it is all
in fun (at my expense). This is a new experience for me, I have NEVER
had anyone point out any of my symptoms. There is someone else in the
office with ADHD and we have no problem communicating!!! It is a
freaking joke that me and the other person have their own world. Don't
get me wrong, there is not a performance problem and I am very much
appreciated.
I feel as if my meds are not working as effectively as before. I don't
know how to approach this with my doctor. Some of my other symptoms
have resurfaced over the year . . . impulsive buying, sluggish to get
going, guilty feelings about personal failure (nothing major), bouncing
from project to project (ultimately they all get done, I just don't
need to work on them all at once, ya know!) Multi tasking is great,
but I feel like that when I started taking medication, I resolved a lot
of these things. I also find myself craving caffine again. . .
I hate the thought of starting with a new psychiatrist, but I don't
feel like my primary doctor of 16 years will have the insight to make a
change or increase my Ritalin. If I have a 12 hour day, I have been
self-medicating with an extra dose or 2, which makes me short at the
end of the month. Is that completely wrong, I am abusing my
medication.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
lch
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| More people are rejecting Koocher's Kooks (Psychologists) in favor of life coaches Linda 08:52:24 |
| | Perhaps, the behavior Koocher's Kooks aka Psychologists engage in to
incite Psychologists to perceived as filthy little liars, frauds,
pseudologues, Whores
of the Court, Criminal Stalkers, Rapists, Perverts and the primary agent
behind all
the abuse, torture, rape and murder of people on US military bases around
the globe has incited WE THE PEOPLE to begin consulting people other then
kooks, oops, I mean "psychologists lol" whenever WE THE PEOPLE want any
real help.
Thursday, August 3, 2006
More people are turning to coaches to help them achieve their goals
By MEGAN SCOTT
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/279786_coach03.html
PS: Only 1,540 or 1% of the 150,000 members of the APA have objected to
Koocher's Kooks, oops, I mean, American Psychologists being the primary
agents behind all the abuse, torture, rape and murder taking place on US
Military basis around the globe..
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/483607021?ltl=1154986790
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| Test Mark Probert 05:47:51 |
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| Up to 70 mgs of Adderall XR - not seeing any difference but I'm becoming a stick Tw 04:25:37 |
| | I posted a msg here a few weeks ago, because I had been prescribed
Adderall XR. See *snippet* below. I started at 10. I'm at 70 mgs
now. I'm definitely feeling side-affects. Weight-loss, dry mouth etc.
However, I'm not noticing any difference as far as benefits increased
concentration, focus, mood etc. I have asked a couple people if they
see any difference, including my gf who knows I have ADD and they don't
notice any changes. I was diagnosed with mild BiPolar 2 by my doctor
for which he prescribed 'Trileptal'. That seemed to help my moods. I
was told by my doc to track the med for 2 weeks when I was sure I had
reached a dose that worked - He said I should notice a difference
either right away or more subtle and to keep going up, I was at 50 mgs.
I just started tracking it a couple days ago although I have not
noticed a difference. I did email him and let him know. I think it's
gotten to a point where if I had noticed a difference it would've been
by now. I don't really see the point of going up to 80. 70 is alot,
and I'm skinny enough
Any thoughts, opinions?
*OLD MESSAGE*
I was diagnosed with ADD and mild autism when I was 5 or 6. I have
improved alot since I was little. But I've always struggling with with
concentration, focus, processing and retaining information. Since high
school, I've jumped from job-to-job - some lasted a month, others
lasted a few years that I barely held onto by the skin of my teeth.
This is the primarily the cause of alot of my anxiety and depression
right now.
I'm seeing a specialist who treats ADD/ADHD. I trust him and he seems
to be knowledgeable. He precribed me on 'Adderall XR' for my ADD. I
started taking it May 7th with a dosage of 10 mgs. I've went up 10 mgs
every day till I was sure to notice a difference. I'm at 50 mgs now.
I'm definitely noticing side affects, dry mouth, decreased appetite,
etc. However, I'm not noticing any difference as far as attention,
processing, focusing in general. I'm trying really hard to hold out
but I'm sooo.... at my wits end with this. I feel like my life has
pretty much been a stale-mate since graduating high school 8 years ago.
I'm ready to get better and I realize it's takes time. I've emailed
my doctor about the adderall and he said that I should notice a
difference either right away or more subtle and to keep going up. I'll
have to monitor myself for 2 weeks then go in for a check-up with my
doc.
IAny thoughts, opinions, at all?
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Monday, 7 August 2006
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| Drug companies sued by South Carolina in price fixing scam Jan Drew 23:23:14 |
| | http://www.newstarget.com/z019879.html
NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published August 4 2006
Drug companies sued by South Carolina in price fixing scam
(NewsTarget) South Carolina's attorney general has filed a $40 million
lawsuit against five out-of-state pharmaceutical companies for allegedly
inflating prescription drug prices for Medicaid programs in the state.
The suit claims that the drug companies -- Abbot Laboratories Inc., Baxter
International Inc., Dey L.P., Boehringer Ingelheim Roxane Inc. and
Schering-Plough Corporation -- have intentionally overcharged South
Carolina's two largest prescription drug health plans by more than $40
million since 1991. The lawsuit claims that the companies purposefully
inflated the wholesale price charged to a patient's health plan by
pharmacies.
"The drug companies are overcharging the taxpayers in South Carolina," says
state Attorney General Henry McMaster. "The goal of this [lawsuit] is to
bring that money back ... and also to restore public confidence in the
stewardship of public funds."
South Carolina's Medicaid program -- intended for use by the state's elderly
and poor citizens -- spent more than $300 million on prescription drugs from
the five companies, and the State Health Plan spent more than $100 million
to cover nearly 30 percent of South Carolina residents, McMaster says.
According to McMaster, about 20 other states have filed price-fixing
lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies, and either Schering-Plough or
Warrick Pharmaceuticals -- a Schering-Plough subsidiary -- has been named in
most of those lawsuits. Schering-Plough could not comment on the lawsuit.
Big Pharma critic Mike Adams, however, had this to say: "It's the same old
price-fixing scheme that pharmaceutical companies have been using to bilk
taxpayers in all fifty states. Amazingly, though, no state has yet been
willing to prosecute these corrupt companies, and they're all settled out of
court with no admission of wrongdoing."
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| ASAD quote 8/7/06 (new) MothWrangler 22:19:35 |
| | (T)he person who believes "I will be real when I am normal," will always
be almost a person, but will never make it all the way.
--Eugene Marcus
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| Physicians for Human Rights cite 8 reasons why Health Professionals should sign petitions to prevent Linda Gore 05:01:23 |
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Physicians For Human Rights
8 REASONS
to Sign On to the U.S. Health Professionals' Call to Prevent Torture
and Abuse of Detainees in U.S. Custody
1,206 US Health Professionals have signed PHR's petition as of August
6, 2006.
http://www.phrusa.org/no-torture/reasons.html
1,513 members of the American Psychological Association have signed
petition "Against Psychologists' Participation in Interrogation of
'Enemy Combatants' initiated by Stephen Soldz as of August 6, 2006.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/483607021?ltl=1154704540
Martin Baro Fund sponsoring petitions to both APA and Congress
PETITION TO UNITED STATES CONGRESS:
Join those of us petitioning Congress to investigate the involvement of
mental health professionals in torture connected to military
interrogations.
http://www.martinbarofund.org/contact/petition-USA.htm
PETITION TO AMERICAN
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION:
Join those of us in petitioning the American Psychological Association
to
end the involvement of mental health professionals in torture connected
to
military interrogations.
http://www.martinbarofund.org/contact/petition-APA.htm
Consumers of health services can review signatures, and, if they
don't find the signature of their health care provider---perhaps, they
might ask their health care provider why not!
Regards,
Linda Gore
t ask their health care provivesthe signativsica
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Sunday, 6 August 2006
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| Petition US Congress, American Psychological Society regarding psychologists abusing and torturing Linda 09:19:50 |
| | PETITION TO UNITED STATES CONGRESS:
Join those of us petitioning Congress to investigate the involvement of
mental health professionals in torture connected to military interrogations.
http://www.martinbarofund.org/contact/petition-USA.htm
PETITION TO AMERICAN
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION:
Join those of us in petitioning the American Psychological Association to
end the involvement of mental health professionals in torture connected to
military interrogations.
http://www.martinbarofund.org/contact/petition-APA.htm
Regards,
Linda Gore
(Target of vigilante stalking organized by abusive mental health
professionals ( since 2000).
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| Linux for writers with Attention Deficit Disorder BigRigs 06:00:04 |
| | Hi
Looking for help/volunteers with the following if you have linux
skills. I need to create a linux installation CD image with the
following requirements:
1. install and Runs one app only - OpenOffice Writer
2. No internet, email, chat, games - nothing else installed,
installable or able to install. No wireles etc.
3. Printer capababiliy to local or network printer. USB capability for
offline storage.
4. No ability to get around restrictions. i.e. should be built into the
install itself and not an admin setting. Should be an on a CD image
that is simply installed. The install should not have any other apps on
it or ways to modify settings.
5. No ability to modify any settings.
6. Should be able to install over windows for dual boot or as a single
install. However, the dual boot should run from windows multi-boot
settings. i.e. the computer should not start from GRUB.
The dual boot should of course include gparted to set a new partition
for installation over an existing windows partition.
Basically the requirement is to create a typewriter. When linux starts,
Office word starts, just like putting a piece of paper in a typewriter.
Any stable free version is okay. This will be redistributed free to
writers with ADD
Your thoughts...
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